1975-76 Seattle Supersonics Statistics

National Basketball Association (NBA)
Team Record: 43-39
Finishing 2nd in the NBA's Pacific Division of the Western Conference
Postseason: 2-4 Lost conference semifinals
Conference Semifinals - Lost to Phoenix Suns 4-2
Coach: Bill Russell (43-39)
Location: Seattle, Washington
Attendance: 557,304, Avg. 13,593 in 41 home dates

1975-76 Seattle Supersonics Roster
1975-76 Seattle Supersonics Results

The Seattle Supersonics of the National Basketball Association ended the 1975-76 season with a record of 43 wins and 39 losses, finishing second in the NBA's Pacific Division of the Western Conference. The team compiled a postseason mark of 2-4.

The Supersonics racked up 8,726 points and gave up 8,749. Fred Brown scored a team-high 1,757 points for Seattle, while Tom Burleson contributed 742 rebounds. Slick Watts dished out 661 assists for the squad.

Defensively, Slick Watts added 261 steals, and Tom Burleson blocked 150 shots.

Bill Russell coached the team. The 1975-76 Seattle Supersonics lost in the conference semifinals.

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Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	PF	Pts
Fred Brown	G	76	0	2516	1522	742			314	273	111	206	317	207	143	18	186	1757
Tom Burleson	C	82	0	2647	1032	496			388	291	258	484	742	180	70	150	273	1283
Slick Watts	G	82	0	2776	1015	433			344	199	112	253	365	661	261	16	270	1065
Bruce Seals	F	81	0	2435	889	388			267	181	157	350	507	119	64	44	314	957
Leonard Gray	F	66	0	2139	831	394			169	126	109	289	398	203	75	36	260	914
Herm Gilliam	G-F	81	0	1644	676	299			116	90	56	164	220	202	82	12	139	688
Mike Bantom	F-C	66	9	1503	450	212			194	131	133	235	368	102	26	26	208	555
Willie Norwood	F	64	0	1004	301	146			203	152	91	138	229	59	42	4	139	444
Tal Skinner	F-G	72	0	1224	285	132			80	49	89	175	264	67	50	7	116	313
Frank Oleynick	G	52	0	650	316	127			77	53	10	35	45	53	21	6	62	307
Rod Derline	G	49	0	339	181	73			56	45	8	19	27	26	11	1	22	191
Zaid Abdul-Aziz	C-F	27	0	223	75	35			29	16	30	46	76	16	8	15	29	86
John Hummer	F-C	29	0	364	67	32			41	17	21	56	77	25	6	9	71	81
Al Carlson	C	28	0	279	79	27			29	18	30	43	73	13	7	11	39	72
Gene Short	F	7	0	37	11	6			2	1	2	5	7	2	0	0	5	13
Totals		862	9	19780	7730	3542	0	0	2309	1642	1217	2498	3715	1935	866	355	2133	8726

Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	PF	Pts
Fred Brown	G	76	0	33.1	48.8	86.9	1.5	2.7	4.2	2.7	1.9	0.2	2.4	23.1
Tom Burleson	C	82	0	32.3	48.1	75.0	3.1	5.9	9.0	2.2	0.9	1.8	3.3	15.6
Slick Watts	G	82	0	33.9	42.7	57.8	1.4	3.1	4.5	8.1	3.2	0.2	3.3	13.0
Bruce Seals	F	81	0	30.1	43.6	67.8	1.9	4.3	6.3	1.5	0.8	0.5	3.9	11.8
Leonard Gray	F	66	0	32.4	47.4	74.6	1.7	4.4	6.0	3.1	1.1	0.5	3.9	13.8
Herm Gilliam	G-F	81	0	20.3	44.2	77.6	0.7	2.0	2.7	2.5	1.0	0.1	1.7	8.5
Mike Bantom	F-C	66	9	22.8	47.1	67.5	2.0	3.6	5.6	1.5	0.4	0.4	3.2	8.4
Willie Norwood	F	64	0	15.7	48.5	74.9	1.4	2.2	3.6	0.9	0.7	0.1	2.2	6.9
Tal Skinner	F-G	72	0	17.0	46.3	61.3	1.2	2.4	3.7	0.9	0.7	0.1	1.6	4.3
Frank Oleynick	G	52	0	12.5	40.2	68.8	0.2	0.7	0.9	1.0	0.4	0.1	1.2	5.9
Rod Derline	G	49	0	6.9	40.3	80.4	0.2	0.4	0.6	0.5	0.2	0.0	0.4	3.9
Zaid Abdul-Aziz	C-F	27	0	8.3	46.7	55.2	1.1	1.7	2.8	0.6	0.3	0.6	1.1	3.2
John Hummer	F-C	29	0	12.6	47.8	41.5	0.7	1.9	2.7	0.9	0.2	0.3	2.4	2.8
Al Carlson	C	28	0	10.0	34.2	62.1	1.1	1.5	2.6	0.5	0.3	0.4	1.4	2.6
Gene Short	F	7	0	5.3	54.5	50.0	0.3	0.7	1.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.7	1.9
Averages		862	9	22.9	45.8	71.1	1.4	2.9	4.3	2.2	1.0	0.4	2.5	10.1

Postseason - Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	PF	Pts
Fred Brown	G	6	236	133	68			44	35	12	16	28	17	13	0	20	171
Tom Burleson	C	6	208	75	45			46	35	15	42	57	10	6	8	25	125
Bruce Seals	F	6	181	68	30			26	18	14	22	36	3	5	6	22	78
Slick Watts	G	6	197	69	30			23	11	5	13	18	49	12	2	28	71
Willie Norwood	F	6	215	58	24			18	11	20	18	38	8	7	1	25	59
Mike Bantom	F-C	6	114	38	22			20	14	9	14	23	8	4	2	27	58
Zaid Abdul-Aziz	C-F	5	60	20	14			11	8	4	17	21	2	0	5	2	36
Tal Skinner	F-G	6	86	14	4			15	11	6	9	15	7	5	2	9	19
Herm Gilliam	G-F	6	86	27	6			8	5	3	8	11	12	6	0	10	17
Rod Derline	G	4	41	10	2			2	2	1	3	4	1	1	0	4	6
John Hummer	F-C	3	16	3	2			0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	3	4
Totals		60	1440	515	247	0	0	213	150	90	162	252	117	59	26	175	644

Postseason Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	MPG	FG%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	PF	Pts
Fred Brown	G	6	39.3	51.1	79.5	2.0	2.7	4.7	2.8	2.2	0.0	3.3	28.5
Tom Burleson	C	6	34.7	60.0	76.1	2.5	7.0	9.5	1.7	1.0	1.3	4.2	20.8
Bruce Seals	F	6	30.2	44.1	69.2	2.3	3.7	6.0	0.5	0.8	1.0	3.7	13.0
Slick Watts	G	6	32.8	43.5	47.8	0.8	2.2	3.0	8.2	2.0	0.3	4.7	11.8
Willie Norwood	F	6	35.8	41.4	61.1	3.3	3.0	6.3	1.3	1.2	0.2	4.2	9.8
Mike Bantom	F-C	6	19.0	57.9	70.0	1.5	2.3	3.8	1.3	0.7	0.3	4.5	9.7
Zaid Abdul-Aziz	C-F	5	12.0	70.0	72.7	0.8	3.4	4.2	0.4	0.0	1.0	0.4	7.2
Tal Skinner	F-G	6	14.3	28.6	73.3	1.0	1.5	2.5	1.2	0.8	0.3	1.5	3.2
Herm Gilliam	G-F	6	14.3	22.2	62.5	0.5	1.3	1.8	2.0	1.0	0.0	1.7	2.8
Rod Derline	G	4	10.3	20.0	100.0	0.3	0.8	1.0	0.3	0.3	0.0	1.0	1.5
John Hummer	F-C	3	5.3	66.7		0.3	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.3
Averages		862	24.0	48.0	70.4	1.5	2.7	4.2	2.0	1.0	0.4	2.9	10.7