During his time suiting up for the Sonics, Champion wore only jersey No. 41 and put up one foul per game in his two-game stint for the team.
The Oklahoma City Thunder (and the Seattle Supersonics before them) have 51 jersey numbers worn by the players who have suited up for the franchise since its founding at the start of the 1967-68 season. To commemorate the players who wore those numbers, Thunder Wire is covering the entire history of jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team.
And while those Supersonics jerseys may not remain part of the franchise history should a new team be established in Seattle as was the case with the return of the Charlotte Hornets, they are part of the Thunder's history today.
For this article, we continue with the 39th jersey number in the series, jersey No. 41, with five players in total having donned the jersey in the history of the franchise.
The fourth of those players who did so in the Seattle SuperSonics era, forward alum Mike Champion. After ending his college career at Gonzaga, Champion would go unselected in the 1987 NBA Draft, signing with the SuperSonics instead.
The Everett, Washington native played his sole season in the NBA with Seattle, retiring from it as a player afterward.
During his time suiting up for the Sonics, Champion wore only jersey No. 41 and put up one foul per game in his two-game stint for the team.
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
This article originally appeared on OKC Thunder Wire: Thunder jersey history No. 41 - Mike Champion (1989)
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