Seattle SuperSonics
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Seattle's NBA franchise selected its team name through a public contest that generated more than 25,000 ideas. The winning entry was a sign of the times with more than 200 submittals with the name "SuperSonics." During the 1960s, The Boeing Company had announced its proposal to build a Concorde-style...
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basketball
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
basketball game played generally indoors by two opposing teams of five players each. Basketball was conceived in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith , a physical education instructor at the YMCA college in Springfield, Mass., as a way to condition outdoor athletes during the winter months. His original list of 13 rules has undergone a century of revision, leading to faster pacing and greater athleticism. Today basketball is one of the most popular American sports and one the rest of the world has adopted. Basic Rules At each end of the court—usually about 92 ft (28 m) long and 50 ft (15 m) wide—is a bottomless basket made of white cord net and suspended from a metal ring, 18 in. ...
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Lenny Wilkens
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lenny Wilkens (Leonard Randolph Wilkens), 1937-, American basketball player and coach, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. After playing at Providence College, he joined the St. Louis Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1960, beginning a 15-year playing career with four teams. In 1969 he became the Seattle SuperSonics' player-coach. Subsequently he coached Seattle (1969-72 and 1977-85), the Portland Trail Blazers (1974-76), the Cleveland Cavaliers ...
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Seattle
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Seattle , city (1990 pop. 516,259), seat of King co., W Wash., built on seven hills, between Elliott Bay of Puget Sound and Lake Washington; inc. 1869. Seattle, the largest city in the Pacific Northwest, is the region's commercial, financial, transportation, and industrial hub and a major port of entry, important in both East Asian and Alaskan trade. A center of aircraft manufacturing and shipbuilding since World War II, the city is a major center for the Boeing Company, which employs a significant number of residents, as does the Microsoft Corp. in nearby Redmond . There are also major electronics, banking, insurance, biomedical, food-processing, and lumber industries. Steel, textiles, ...
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