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Oklahoma City Thunder, Indeed
Oklahoma City Thunder, Indeed
A few weeks back, an enterprising Oklahoma City news outfit deduced the moniker for that town's new NBA team would be Thunder . And what do you know, via TrueHoop , the NBA inadvertently leaked out the team name when it released its 2008-09 schedule today. Take a look at this screenshot from OKC blog The Lost Ogle . The Kings and Mavericks will escape a visit to OKC, however: both team ...
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Is the NBA Planning Neutral Site Regular Season Games?
FanHouse — ... Of course the league said there was nothing to it, that it was simply a "glitch" in the schedule. Which is totally believable, considering the fact that they also listed a couple of games "@ Seattle." But there's also the possibility that this was another accidental leak of information, and if that was the case, those will be a couple of very intriguing nights in the NBA. ...

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Fear The Beard — ... Apparently dissatisfied with the prospect of capitalizing on the region’s history of disenfranchising Native American land–and unable to land Baron Davis in free agency–the NBA’s erstwhile Seattle Supersonics are rumored to have settled on the name “Thunder” for the now Oklahoma City-based squad. This rumor is based solely on domain-name registration data and an league scheduling document, as detailed by friend of FTB Tom Ziller. Read all about it here. ...

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All That Jazz — ... . (well, they may have released some other things too, but that's still all pretty hush-hush) I haven't had some time to look at the schedules for the other teams yet, but I will in time. But let's take a look at how things will shape up month-by-month. ...

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FanHouse — ... Of course, OKC has been unusually bad at hiding information on the franchise changes. "Thunder" hasn't even been officially announced, and everyone knew it a month ago. It wouldn't surprise me if on Monday photos leaked of Clay Bennett's new Thunder logo tattoo. The whole front office just doesn't seem particularly good at PR. ...

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OKC Thunder name leaked... againWhere's Ubaldo?
As NBA.com released the schedule for the up-coming season, they forgot one key factor. They have not officially named the Oklahoma City franchise yet. When the schedule was released online, it listed the Oklahoma City team name as the Thunder.