This photograph of the victory parade for the Seattle SuperSonics, taken by staff photographer Bob Miller, appeared on the front page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on June 5, 1979.

The parade on June 4, 1979, was given in honor of the Sonics victory over the Washington Bullets on June 1, 1979 in game 5 of the NBA Championship. An estimated 300,000 spectators (in a city of 493,000 residents) lined the 16-block parade route from the Kingdome to the plaza between the Olympic Hotel and the Rainier Bank Building. They gathered on the streets and perched precariously on the edges of building roofs, on window ledges and atop light standards, street signs and traffic-control devices to get glimpses of convertibles bearing NBA Hall of Fame coach Lenny Wilkens, Dennis Johnson, Gus Williams, Jack Sikma, John Johnson, Paul Silas, Fred "Downtown Freddy" Brown and the rest of the players.

Caption information source: "300,000 loved the 1979 SuperSonics’ parade," Steve Rudman, http://sportspressnw.com/2178113/2014/supersonics-parade
Caption information source: "Sonics 1979 NBA championship and parade - video and pictures," http://www.kiro7.com/news/sonics-1979-nba-championship-and-parade-video-and-/246486467