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Logo Doctor Hates Oklahoma City Logo
ESPN.com - TrueHoop — ... None of this much matters to the quality of the product on the court, and I suspect this level of scrutiny is mainly a product of the negativity surrounding the ownership. Plenty of organizations survive poor logo design. But there is also this: Just because anyone with a computer can crank out something that could be called design, doesn't mean there is no such thing as serious professional design. Those are the people you'd ideally have on your logo project. (Via the Denver Egotist.)

Everything You Wanted to Say About the Thunder Logo But Couldn't
Upside and Motor — "Umm...it's really ugly." "Dude, I could've designed that." "Lame Logo City, population: 547,274." Go here, and read everything. Now. Please? (via TrueHoop...via The Denver Egotist)

NBA Essentials: 'Is That a Clip Art Basketball?'
FanHouse — Filed under: Heat, Pistons, ThunderNBA Essentials ranks our six favorite stories of the day. 1. The Denver Egotist, via TrueHoop. A vicious destruction of the Thunder logo by a professional designer. 2. The Pitch. A follow-up on Michael Beasley's mysterious connection to the Arthur-Chalmers sting. 3. Ball Don't Lie. And you never thought you'd see Clay Bennett and Aubrey McClendon star in an animated ...

Our Book of Scrap: Sports News — WAG No. 175: Claudia Effenberg Warren Sapp Thinks His Old Raiders Squad Is "Going To Suck" Manuel says he didn't bash Phillies' fans Greg Oden Breaks Girls Hearts/Ears With Karaoke Denver Designer Breaks Down the Oklahoma Thunder Logo Simpson's lawyers tried to dismiss all-white jury Peyton Manning's All Time Comedy Moments ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder Logo Continues To Get Hated On
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog — ... It’s just, well, kind of easy. Eschewing the fact that Seattle fans sort of got completely worked over, let’s be honest: the logo belongs adhered to an MLS franchise, or perhaps a WNBA squad. But thanks to the Denver Egoist (via ...

Oklahoma City ready for Thunder basketball
MVN Outsider — ... A lot of NBA news lately has centered around the Oklahoma City Thunder. Recently they unveiled their full team name and logo. They’ve been scrutinized quite a bit for both, especially for the “ms paint” logo, but Oklahoma City fans don’t seem to mind either. ...

OKC Thunder : Can you do better?
A Stern Warning - NBA, NBL and FIBA News & Views — ... There has been a lot of criticism out there of the new Oklahoma City Thunder logo. We've seen everything from detailed critiques to hilarious cartoons about the saga. ...

Shaq-Designed Jacket: Uglier Than Zubaz
FirstCuts — ... Luckily for the Big Aristotle, and perhaps all of us, the company appears to have gone under, leaving design responsibilities to the pros. Just as design should ultimately be left up to those who know what they're doing (and even then, it can go horribly wrong), we'll leave the alley-oops and fadeaway threes to the pros and not pretend we're just as capable. ...

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sports.yahoo.com 9/11/2008 — Comic about Clay Bennett and Co. giving more "good-faith effort" and also giving Gary Payton gas.
Utah Jazz on National TV -- what to look for!
allthatjazzbasketball.blogspot.com 9/11/2008 — Wow, can you believe that they are going to show 11 Jazz games on national TV? I couldn't either . . . each game is against a tough team on either TNT or ESPN. The last game of the season against that team that shares the same homecourt with the Clippers will have playoff implications for sure.
Everything You Wanted to Say About the Thunder Logo But Couldn't
upsideandmotor.blogspot.com 9/11/2008 — "Umm...it's really ugly." "Dude, I could've designed that." "Lame Logo City, population: 547,274 ." Go here , and read everything. Now. Please? (via TrueHoop ...via The Denver Egotist )
Logo Doctor Hates Oklahoma City Logo
myespn.go.com 9/11/2008 — Very interesting breakdown of the new logo (PG-13 for one word) which never really bothered me before but now suddenly seems horribly amateurish. For instance, why must it say Thunder OKC, instead of OKC Thunder? Why four colors? Is that a clip-art ...
4 Thunder Logos Better Than The OKC Thunder Logo
hoopsavenue.com 9/12/2008 — The OKC Thunder logo is a disaster! A 4 year-old could have come up with something better. Well, maybe not, but here are 4 teams that came up with logos 100x more exciting than the NBA's snoozer of a logo.
Thunder sell 8,350 season tickets in 2 daysCeltics & NBA - BostonHerald.com 9/10/2008
OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma City's new NBA franchise has sold nearly two-thirds of its season tickets in the first two days of availability. Thunder spokesman Dan Mahoney...
OKC Thunder Agree To Deal With 7-foot-1 SwiftNBA.com: News 9/12/2008
The Oklahoma City Thunder have re-signed restricted free agent Robert Swift, a 7-foot-1 center who has been plagued by knee injuries. A lottery pick four years ago out of high school, Swift was a McDonald's All-American at Bakersfield High School. ...
Thundering herd: OKC fans snap up season ticketsFOXSports.com News for NBA 9/13/2008
Season tickets for Oklahoma City's new NBA franchise have sold out in just five days. Chairman Clay Bennett says the last of approximately 13,000 Thunder season tickets were sold Friday, and the team has put names on a waiting list for games at the ...
Okla. City sells out NBA season tickets (AP)Yahoo! Sports - NBA News 9/13/2008
Season tickets for Oklahoma City's new NBA franchise have sold out in just five days. Chairman Clay Bennett says the last of approximately 13,000 Thunder season tickets were sold Friday, and the team has put names on a waiting list for games at the ...
Oklahoma City sells out NBA season ticketsThe Seattle Times: Sports 9/13/2008
Season tickets for Oklahoma City's new NBA franchise have sold out in just five days.