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Keeping an eye on the NBA and Seattle's efforts to get back into the game
Thursday, January 1st, 2009
Posted by John Wallingford @ 06:36:46 pm
Jan. 1, 1968: While the Sonics were losing to Lenny Wilkens and the St. Louis Hawks, O.J. Simpson was scoring a pair of touchdowns and leading USC to a Rose Bowl victory over Indiana.
The SuperSonics spent their inaugural New Year's Day at the Seattle Coliseum, where they took a beating from the St. Louis Hawks and two guys who were destined to play significant roles in the franchise's greatest moment.
Lenny Wilkens scored 26 points for St. Louis, and Paul Silas added 23 as the Hawks rolled to a 115-94 victory before a sparse holiday crowd of 3,604 on Jan. 1, 1968. It was St. Louis' fourth victory over the expansion Sonics that season.
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