Post-Sonics Watch
Feeling lost without your Seattle SuperSonics? Seattle-area NBA fans face their first season without an NBA team in 41 years. Primarily, our coverage here will focus on the City of Seattle’s attempt to bring the NBA back to Seattle. But we also will provide updates on the Portland Trail Blazers, the Oklahoma City Thunder and area players plying their trade for other teams in the NBA.

Eric Williams covered the Sonics' last season in Seattle. A Tacoma native, Eric graduated from Mount Tahoma High and the University of Puget Sound.

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Keeping an eye on the NBA and Seattle's efforts to get back into the game
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
Posted by John Wallingford @ 09:37:01 pm
After dropping a career-best 40 points on the Chicago Bulls two days before Christmas, Detroit's Rodney Stuckey unloaded another 38 on the Sacramento Kings on Friday night.

Either Rodney Stuckey has arrived, or he's getting there in an awful hurry.

"There" in this case would be a place of distinction among the upper echelon of NBA players.

Stuckey, five years removed from leading Kentwood to a Class 4A state hoops title and earning MVP honors in the process, is turning heads and opening eyes with his dynamic play at point guard for the Detroit Pistons in his second NBA season.

Floundering within stumbling distance of .500 for most of the season, the Pistons have improved to 20-11 and are riding a six-game winning streak. Stuckey, who unloaded 38 points and seven assists on the Sacramento Kings in Detroit's 98-92 victory Friday night, has been a catalyst in the Pistons' resurgence.

Folks around the NBA are starting to take notice of Stuckey's evolution, including a chagrined Kenny Natt, the coach who watched the former Eastern Washington University star torch his Kings.

“Stuckey had a monster game, and we weren’t able to contain him," Natt told the Associated Press on Friday.

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