As a warm up to Mr. Baker’s column tomorrow and to get off the ILWU/Sacramento topic for the evening. Let’s take a quick peak at the first ever Sonic, Al Tucker.
He was the Sonics first ever draft pick back in 1967. He averaged 13 points a game his rookie year and a little over 10 points in his sophomore and final year with the Sonics.
Al passed away in 2001.
He is most famous for being the inventor of the alley-oop with his brother, Gerald, while at Oklahoma Baptist University. As fans of the Sonics, we should know what a truly beautiful thing that the alley-oop is.
The man does deserve a bit more fanfare, but I will cover that in another piece. Also, I’m going to start adding history elements on the site. Keep an eye out for that.
Given our joking in the previous thread, irony!
From the Warriors / Raptors game notes from tonight’s game:
“Former Warriors G Sarunas Marciulionis, drafted in the sixth round by Golden State in 1987, was in attendance as part of European Community Night.”
Sarunas was in the house, 85 miles from Sacto! ;-)
Nice
I, for one, am saving my best Tucker material for the aforementioned longer Tucker exposé.