Sports
Clark Matthews
Winning Game 2 of the Western Conference finals May 19 on the road should have been a feel good story for the Oklahoma City Thunder. Instead, most of the discussion afterward was focused on a single negative aspect.
Friday 24 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: OKC Thunder
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Let's focus on the positive, shall we?
Sports
Clark Matthews
Winning Game 2 of the Western Conference finals May 19 on the road should have been a feel good story for the Oklahoma City Thunder. Instead, most of the discussion afterward was focused on a single negative aspect.
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Watch Arcade Fire's Win Butler crossover dribble
Thunder forward Nick Collison, Butler, others play charity ball in Canada.
So what did we learn from watching this video of Arcade Fire ringleader
Win Butler participating in a Toronto charity basketball tournament with
a handful of actual (white) NBA players, musicians and others?
1. He's better at shooting threes than Matt Bonner.
3. Dude hustles.
4. Dude passes OK from the low post.
5. Dude talks decent white-boy smack, at best.
Also, OKC Thunder workhorse Nick Collison deserves a shoutout for his awesome deadpan humor here (which comes at no surprise to anyone who follows him on Twitter). When asked why he should be the top overall draft pick in the charity tournament, he dropped some real talk: "I'm one of the only professional athletes here." Watch below.
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09.23.2011
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2. While kinda lanky and awkward, he's got
better-than-average ball-handling skills and left-hand finish ability,
so long as Matt Bonner is not patiently waiting in the paint to swat the
eff out of it.
3. Dude hustles.
4. Dude passes OK from the low post.
5. Dude talks decent white-boy smack, at best.
Also, OKC Thunder workhorse Nick Collison deserves a shoutout for his awesome deadpan humor here (which comes at no surprise to anyone who follows him on Twitter). When asked why he should be the top overall draft pick in the charity tournament, he dropped some real talk: "I'm one of the only professional athletes here." Watch below.
Grievous in seattle
CFN
Gazette staff
Talk about beating a dead horse. It’s been four years since the NBA’s SuperSonics left Seattle and became the Oklahoma City Thunder, but a vocal segment of that team’s faithful continues to bellyache.
Thunder-drunk
Thunder has transformed city’s image
Commentary
Mick Cornett
I was watching ESPN the other night and saw Skip Bayless, Tim Legler and Stephen A. Smith spend 20 minutes talking about the Oklahoma City Thunder. A few days earlier, I’d seen the ESPN First Take team analyzing Russell Westbrook’s game.
Shirt happens
Jump, shot
CFN
Gazette staff
With basketball returning to the Chesapeake Energy Arena tomorrow, remember that there have been some changes since the last time the Oklahoma City Thunder played took the court at home.
Still a sportscaster
Letters to the Editor
Jim Henry
Mick Cornett’s commentary of May 16 (“Thunder has transformed city’s image,” Oklahoma Gazette) proved that I was right when Oklahoma City chose Mick Cornett over Jim Tolbert: If you elect a sportscaster as mayor, you get a sportscaster as mayor.
Pod people
Some hoops fans celebrate all things Thunder with DIY podcasts.
Sports
Murray Evans
As a Chicago Cubs fan living in Oklahoma, Brent Lightsey sought information on the team from whatever sources he could, including a podcast assembled by fellow fans of Major League Baseball’s lovable losers.
