As the Thunder begins its seventh season in Oklahoma City, GM Sam Presti discusses how the organization does business.
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Diverse honors
Kevin Durant Photo by Shannon Cornman Kevin Durant will be among honorees at Dialogue Institute Oklahoma City’s friendship dinner and awards ceremony on April 1. It is a nonprofit organization that was founded with the express purpose of furthering interfaith dialogue, especially in the wake of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. The award […]
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Thunderstruck
Kevin Durant Credit: Shannon Cornman A third straight NBA scoring title for Kevin Durant. Sixth Man of the Year Award for James Harden. And after only four years in existence, the team battled its way to win the Western Conference championship, defeating the Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs — the three […]
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Tweet fleet
Kevin Durant OKC Thunder überstar @KDTrey5 Number of followers: 2.28 million Did you know Durant follows: Entertainers, basketballers, models, celebrities. Follow him or forget it: Follow. You’ll have to wade through some serious jargon, Twitterspeak and inside jokes, but let’s face it: You love Kevin Durant, and you’ll put up with it because he can […]
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Thunder city
Credit: Shannon Cornman It existed in the shadow of the boom-and-bust economy of Tulsa’s oil-rich gentility, whose development outpaced its sister down the turnpike for much of the last half-century. It existed in the shadow of equidistant college rivals whose fan bases divided the city’s allegiance. Most of all, it existed in the shadow of […]
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Haute hoops
To capitalize on the hoops mania, the teams’ respective civic leaders have placed friendly bets on the contest: The victorious will dine on the loser’s culinary specialties. Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez will send Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett stone crabs when the OKC Thunder win the Finals. That’s right: If you want crabs, […]
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Where the buffalo roam naked
So perhaps MA+ Architecture shouldn’t be too surprised that its office’s herd of fake buffalo outside have been “stripped” of their Thunder tees. Yesterday, the OKC-based architecture firm at 4000 N. Classen Blvd. issued a news release about the theft. “We always seem to have a certain amount of theft when we display the buffaloes, […]
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Still a sportscaster
Cornett’s belief that the Thunder has transformed the city’s image is the kind of superficial observation one would expect from a talking head. Let me test his hypothesis: Oklahoma City is now nationally regarded as a place where one can attend a very popular sporting event. Footage of Thunder games on national television shows that […]
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Pod people
Brad Gregg When the Oklahoma City Thunder came to town, the 30-year-old Oklahoma Christian University graduate thought it would be neat if he and his co-workers could do something similar — “be the voice of the fan,” he said. That idea morphed into the OKC ThunderCast podcast, which Lightsey and Blayne Cook produce. It focuses […]
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Shirt happens
Brad Gregg An Oklahoma City-based business, Warpaint Clothing Co., riled fans of the Seattle SuperSonics — the Thunder’s previous incarnation — for hawking T-shirts that appropriated the Sonics’ logo and read, “Thank you Seattle.” After a few well-placed Twitter mentions two weekends ago brought attention to the shirts, Warpaint began receiving online death threats. “So […]