OKLAHOMA CITY TO ANNOUNCE ITS NAME ON SEPT. 3

[gz18]

http://www.nba.com/oklahomacity/#/news/archive/article_teamname080827

finally we will know it..

[Laxation]

Yeah its such a big surprise too... Thunder is a shit name.

[Dan's Brain]

"HIS" name. Hehehe

[BigGameJames]

Yeah its such a big surprise too... Thunder is a shit name.

Yeah, I agree, it seems like they had a chance to really hit a homerun with this nickname and they fucked it up.

[Alejandrov011]

"HIS" name. Hehehe

jejejeje



niiiiiiiiice

[Andrew]

The more I hear it, the more I get used to it. I wouldn't say it's the best name anyone has ever come up with for an NBA team but it's decent.

[Dan's Brain]

I wouldn't say it's the best name anyone has ever come up with for an NBA team but it's decent.

There's an idea for a poll if ever I've heard one. My personal favourite is the Mavericks, mainly because i like the word, maverick and use it a butt-load in my everyday life.

[Laxation]

The more I hear it, the more I get used to it. I wouldn't say it's the best name anyone has ever come up with for an NBA team but it's decent.

Oh cmon... it sounds like a fucking WNBA team

[Andrew]

I wouldn't say WNBA, more CBA or D-League if anything.

[Lamrock]

Thundercats was better.

[BigGameJames]

Well IMO they fucked up the name, hopefully they won't screw up the colors and do somthing stupid like orange blue and silver, oops sorry Charlotte fans, all 15 of you.

[Laxation]

I wouldn't say WNBA, more CBA or D-League if anything.

Sif

Storm
Sky
Comets
Shock
Thunder
Mystics
Mercury
Dream
Sun
Sparks

See, it fits right in!

[nba_baller]

lol he's right. All are quite similar.

[Andrew]

It fits but it doesn't strike me as a feminine sort of name. In any case, I'm not saying it's a great name but I'm kind of getting used to it.

[Billie]

How will you judge the new name if WNBA,D-League,CBA,ABA etc never existed?

[Andrew]

The same way everyone is now, except that those leagues wouldn't exist for the purpose of comparison.

[Billie]

court preview?





or just the normal floor of ford center?

[jonthefon]

Looks like a video game to me.

OMG IT SHUD B SONICS!!1!

[Billie]

http://www.koco.com/sports/16925692/detail.html

Meanwhile,while searching for oklahoma city thunder at yahoo..

[Jackal]

We've got ourselves a regular Sherlock Holmes on the forums.

[NovU]

supersonics will forever be missed. the management really fucked up the franchise again by changing the name supersonics to thunder. hope this club becomes a joke and eventually seattle gets the sonics back.

gary, detlef, hawkins, kemp... i still remember those great sonics. those were the rare and last good days for the sonics i guess. sux ray couldn't save the sonics.

[Alejandrov011]

I have done it too... After i saw your post Coco and it appears


The NBA is so awful to keep secrets

[ThaLiveKing]

Did Tim Donaghy tell you that? lol

[Andrew]

supersonics will forever be missed. the management really fucked up the franchise again by changing the name supersonics to thunder. hope this club becomes a joke and eventually seattle gets the sonics back.

They probably would have kept the Sonics moniker if they could have, but if not for the agreement they struck with the city they might have had to honour their KeyArena lease and Bennett and co were obviously keen to get out of Seattle.

[pHiL :)]

Oklahoma City Thunder...I can live with that. More so than the Oklahoma City Barons...that just sounds wack to me.

Although I wish they would call them the Oklahoma Thunder and take out the "City" since they will be playing some games here in Tulsa(i moved here some years ago) in our brand new BOK Center








and since the D-League Tulsa 66ers are here. Like how the Utah Jazz are, it's not the Salt Lake City Jazz, that way the whole state could here more involved.

We went down there the night of it's opening, it's freakin' HUUUUGE! Perfect for a franchise