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The Sonics will go to camp with basically its current roster of 14 players under contract, with the only expected addition to include five-year NBA veteran Jermaine Jackson. The 6-foot-5 guard played summer league ball with Seattle. Jackson has played with five different NBA teams, most recently for Milwaukee in the 2005-06 season.
With training camp starting Tuesday and only a week for the team to prepare before Seattle travels to Sacramento Oct. 9 to face the Kings in its first preseason game, Presti said he wanted to limit the roster so the coaches can focus on implementing the team’s new philosophy.
“It allows for us to get right into teaching our system, evaluating the team and getting a feel for where we are,” Presti said. “Our focus for camp has to be on the guys we currently have and getting reps for those guys.
“For our team right now and the direction we are headed, I think it¹s important for our coaches to be working with our players —the guys they are going to be seeing every day — and getting to know them and getting in a nice rhythm.”
Presti said everyone is in town now and has been for the past few days.
With the team’s payroll at just over $63 million it appears the Sonics don’t have much wiggle room to bring in new players. However, Seattle is deep at guard and small forward, and could make some moves later on during training camp once head coach P.J. Carlesimo establishes what his rotation will be.
Here’s the training camp roster.
Player Pos. Ht./Wt. From Years Exp.
Nick Collison F/C 6-10/255 Kansas 4
Kevin Durant F 6-9/215 Texas R
Mickael Gelabale F 6-7/215 France 2
Jeff Green F 6-9/235 Georgetown R
Jermaine Jackson G 6-5/204 Detroit 6
Johan Petro C 7-0/247 France 3
Luke Ridnour G 6-2/175 Oregon 4
Mouhamed Sene C 7-0/230 Senegal 2
Robert Swift C 7-1/245 Bakerfield (HS) 4
Wally Szczerbiak F 6-7/245 Miami (Ohio) 9
Kurt Thomas F/C 6-9/235 Texas Christian 13
Earl Watson G 6-1/185 UCLA 7
Delonte West G 6-3/195 St. Joseph’s (PA) 4
Chris Wilcox F 6-10/235 Maryland 6
Damien Wilkins G/F 6-6/225 Georgia 4
COMMENTS:
It's not fair to ask Durant to save the franchise at 19. We probably won't know how good he's going to be until he's been in OKC for a few years. GRRR.
Hopefully Durant, Green & Wilcox will at least be entertaining to watch while we lose. Hopefully Carlissimo won't be as lame of a coach as I think he's going to be. Hopefully Durant is really an NBA shooting guard as has been floated here in the past so KD & Green can be on the floor at the same time.
i want to see green and durant play along with wally, delonte, and thomas
i extremely pumped to see how swift does!
also
nov 1st
sonics 119
suns 111
GO SONICS!!!
His player and coaching staff additions seem good.
I expect Collison will beat out Swift to start at center. Sene and Petro may not play much at all.
It is a good sign that all spots are open.
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