Rod Derline

Rod Derline (born March 11, 1952) is a former professional basketball guard who played for the Seattle SuperSonics in the NBA. A product of Elma High School in Elma, Washington, where he helped lead the Eagles to the Class A state championship game in 1970, Derline went on to play college basketball at Seattle University, where he was later inducted into the basketball hall of fame in 2003. Selected by Seattle in the tenth round of the 1974 NBA draft (169th overall), he appeared in 107 games over two seasons, averaging 4.8 points per game before a knee injury ended his career.