The Oklahoma City....Thunder?
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Zorgon posted 7/21/2008 from nbaokc.blogspot.com [flag] |
KOCO reports that the Oklahoma City NBA Franchise name will be the Thunder....too bad that that's already the name of the Warriors mascot....
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