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1980–81 Seattle SuperSonics season

NBA professional basketball team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ3953649 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1980–81 Seattle SuperSonics season was the SuperSonics 14th season in the NBA.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1980–81 Seattle SuperSonics season” as nBA professional basketball team season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Seattle, SuperSonics and season.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Seattle, SuperSonics and season providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3953649. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “1980–81 Seattle SuperSonics season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.