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.