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Assistant Sports Editor
Adam Thaler
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Sports Reporter
Meg Wochnick
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The NBA resumed play Sunday with a typically aggressive agenda. It staged a Christmas Day takeover that offered starved-for-pro-hoops fans 13 straight hours of basketball.
Bob Blackburn, the Seattle SuperSonics' first broadcaster and for 20 years the lone voice of Sonics history, died Friday after a lengthy illness, his wife Pat told Associated Press. He was 85.
Thirty years ago today, the SuperSonics became the first and only Seattle team to win a world championship in a major sport. They clinched their title in a Landover, Md., arena, since demolished, known as the Capital Centre, against a team that used to be called, in that pre-politically correct era, the Bullets.