Oklahoma City Thunder Trivia

OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER TRIVIA

1) What were the Oklahoma City Thunder originally called?

SEATTLE SUPERSONICS BALTIMORE BULLETS TORONTO HUSKIES ROCHESTER ROYALS

The team was originally established as the Seattle SuperSonics, an expansion team that joined the NBA for the 1967-68 season. While located in Seattle, the team qualified for the NBA playoffs 22 times, won their division six times, advanced to three NBA Finals, and won the 1979 NBA Championship.

2) Which Thunder player averaged a triple-double for an entire season?

RUSSELL WESTBROOK KEVIN DURANT PAUL GEORGE GARY PAYTON

In 2017, the year he won the league MVP award, Russell Westbrook became one of two players in NBA history to average a triple-double for a season, along with Oscar Robertson in 1962. He set a record for the most triple-doubles in a season, with 42. He went on to average a triple-double the following two seasons as well, and become the first player to lead the league in points and assists in multiple seasons.

3) Who was the head coach when the franchise won its first game as the Oklahoma City Thunder?

BILLY DONOVAN BOB HILL SCOTT BROOKS P.J. CARLESIMO

In 2007, the Seattle Supersonics hired P. J. Carlesimo as head coach. When the team moved to Oklahoma City the following year, he became the first coach in Thunder history, but his tenure didn't last long. Carlesimo was fired on November 22, 2008 after a 1-12 start.

4) Who holds the franchise single-season record for blocks?

ALTON LISTER SHAWN KEMP SERGE IBAKA JIM MCILVAINE

Serge Ibaka twice led the league in blocks, including 2012-13 when he earned NBA All-Defensive First Team honors and set a Thunder record with 242 blocks.

5) Who was the first Thunder player to average 30 points per game?

PAUL GEORGE KEVIN DURANT RUSSELL WESTBROOK SPENCER HAYWOOD

In 2009-10, with a scoring average of 30.1 points per game, 21-year-old Kevin Durant became the youngest NBA scoring champion and was selected to his first All-NBA team.

6) What is the name of the Thunder's bison mascot?

SONIC BOLT THOR RUMBLE

Rumble debuted on February 17, 2009, as part of the halftime show during the Thunder's game against the New Orleans Hornets. His name derives from the sound that thunder makes.

7) Who was the shortest player in Oklahoma Thunder history?

FRED BROWN LUCIUS ALLEN NATE ROBINSON CHRIS PAUL

Ironically, 5-foot-9-inch point guard Nate Robinson, who spent one season with the Thunder, is the only three-time winner of the NBA Slam Dunk Contest.

8) Which player has been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame three times?

SPENCER HAYWOOD LENNY WILKENS JACK SIKMA PAUL WESTPHAL

Lenny Wilkens has been inducted three times into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame--first in 1989 as a player, as a coach in 1998, and in 2010 as part of the 1992 United States Olympic "Dream Team", for which he was an assistant coach.

9) Which player set a Thunder record with 10 successful 3-pointers in a single game?

PAUL GEORGE RUSSELL WESTBROOK CARMELO ANTHONY KEVIN DURANT

On February 1, 2019, Paul George scored 43 points and had a career-high 10 3-pointers in a 118-102 win over the Miami Heat.

10) Who was the first player to lead the league in assists and steals in the same season?

SLICK WATTS SPENCER HAYWOOD FRED BROWN LENNY WILKENS

Donald Earl "Slick" Watts picked up the nickname "Slick" because he was one of the first NBA players to shave his head. In 1975-76, he led the NBA in total assists, assists per game, total steals, steals per game, and made NBA All-Defense First-Team.