deadspin.com - 7/19/2008
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It's not much of a surprise to Oklahomans that some derivative of Thunder was going to be the newly relocated Seattle SuperSonics team name, be it Thunderbirds, Thundercats, Thunderpants, or the Fighting Dan Majerles. But it looks like they're just going to go with Thunder . The Oklahoma City Thunder. There's your newest NBA team, perhaps. After all, the NBA's registrar company snatched up ...
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Oklahoma City NBA Team Rolling with Thunder*
The Big Lead —
... the Oklahoma Thunder is the World Football League’s franchise housed in Tulsa. How original.
It should be noted that just because the domains have been resistered, doesn’t mean it was done by an NBA front office. John Doe could have registered the domain just so he could sell it at a later date. It would be like if I registered “www.nakedguyonaplane.com” in the hopes that I could sell it to Samuel L Jackson for a future movie.
[Deadspin]
* That was a mainstream media-level snappy ...
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