Friday, September 26
SSS HOF #7: Jack Sikma
Jack Sikma, Harpers Index-style
Points scored by Jack Sikma in his Sonic career: 12,034
Points scored by Alton Lister, Jim McIlvaine, Olden Polynice in their Sonic careers, combined: 4,245
Number of 3-pointers made by Sikma in the first 11 years of his career: 7
Number made in the next three: 196
Number of playoff games Sonics played in Sikma’s first three years: 54
Number in the next 10 years: 47
Number of years Sikma averaged 10 or more rebounds per game in the playoffs: 6
Number of times since he was traded a Sonic center has done so: 3
Amount Sikma earned in his career as a player: $13,497,000
Amount Wally Szczerbiak earned last year: $12,275,000
Number of blocks by Alton Lister, for whom the Sonics traded Sikma, in his three years in Seattle: 500
Number by Sikma in those three years: 231
Number of points Sikma scored: 3,465
Number for Lister: 1,989
Number of categories in which Sikma ranks among Seattle’s top 10: 22
Number of categories in which Lister does: 1
Number of times Sikma was dunked on by Shawn Kemp and made to look like a punk: 0
Number of NBA players to rock the white man perm in the early 1980s: 10
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Sikma, Bird, Brad Davis, Kelly Tripucka, Paul Mokeski... pathetic, I topped out at six??
ReplyDeleteDon't forget head coach Hubie Brown.
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