The day the Sonics won the NBA title
Sonics guard Gus Williams (Photos courtesy of King County Archives) The recently concluded seven-game battle between the defending champion Golden State Warriors and the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Western Conference finals gave many long-suffering fans of the former Seattle SuperSonics a chance to gloat: The Thunder, the team that USED to be in Seattle, blew a 3-1 series lead and failed to reach the finals. The pain felt in OKC was equaled by the sense of poetic justice…