Benjamin Has Last Laugh : Clippers: He outscores Polynice, 15-4, as SuperSonics roll to a 93-81 victory. Threatt leads Seattle with 31.

Sedale Threatt scored a season-high 31 points and Benoit Benjamin, playing against his former team six days after being traded, added 15 points and six rebounds to lead the Seattle SuperSonics to a 93-81 victory over the Clippers Tuesday night at Seattle.

Olden Polynice, sent to the Clippers along with two first-round draft choices last Wednesday in exchange for Benjamin, had four points and eight rebounds. Gary Grant had a team-high 22 points, Ron Harper added 19 and Danny Manning and Charles Smith had 15 each.

The 81 points was the second-lowest total of the season for the Clippers, who lost a 13-point first-quarter lead. They scored 78 to beat Seattle Nov. 18 at the Sports Arena.

All parties involved did their best to downplay the game, though emotions still came through.

“I’m going to be real pumped up going against my former team,” Polynice said the other day. “I talked to Sedale Threatt (Sunday) about the Phoenix game and how I saw that Xavier McDaniel and Tom Chambers (also former SuperSonics) played well. He said, ‘Are you going to do the same?’ When guys come back against their former team, they seem to play well. I hope that holds true for me.”

Polynice got a nice ovation when introduced before the game in what would be his second consecutive start and only the ninth in his four-season career. Benjamin, popular enough with the Clippers that former teammates Harper and Manning wrote his uniform No. 00 on parts of their equipment, came off the bench in his third appearance with the SuperSonics, playing behind another former Clipper, Michael Cage.

Benjamin, who made seven of nine shots, said he didn’t feel any extra pressure playing the Clippers, the only team he had played for as a pro before coming to Seattle.

“I’m just going to concentrate on playing and not worry about what the other guys are doing,” he said.

Seattle, which moved eight games ahead of the Clippers for the eighth and final Western Conference playoff spot, fell behind, 15-2, but led, 42-40, at halftime. The SuperSonics outscored the Clippers, 40-25, in the next 20 minutes.

Threatt had two points in the first quarter, but carried the SuperSonics the next two periods.

“We had too many turnovers in the first quarter,” he said. “Someone had to pick the team up. I started to get into the flow in the second quarter.”

Seattle Coach K.C. Jones said his team, not the Clippers, looked like the road team early.

“With the five turnovers in the first quarter, it looked like we were walking in cement,” Jones said. “We did better the rest of the game, but really played out of control, especially on the fast break.”

The Sonics had 23 turnovers, 17 in the first half.

The SuperSonics led by only 52-51 early in the third quarter before Threatt and Benjamin keyed a 14-6 run that made the score 66-57 with 3:14 to play.

Clipper forward Ken Norman suffered an injured left ankle and did not play in the second half.