Let's Name the Oklahoma NBA Team!

[FOTD]

Two names! Oklahoma Boom and Oklahoma Bust depending on the current situation......

[DolfanBob]

WWLS the Sports Animal announced yesterday that they are the flagship station of the still un-named OKC NBA team. Just announced on air that sometime today a press conference from Tulsa will be about a D-League decision, most likely affecting the Tulsa 66rs. That only makes since.

[cannon_fodder]

Press conference for a "major D-league announcement" today at 2pm, downtown Double Tree.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20080731_2_Anew548843

Owner Clay Bennett, GM  Sam Presti, and the President of the D-League will be there.  

They aligned with the Sonics a while back:
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-0&fp=4891cb3ba9528d46&ei=sduRSLuGBYq-ywToz9CwCw&url=http%3A//www.tulsaworld.com/sports/article.aspx%3FarticleID%3D20080704_20_B1_hNBAhb591287&cid=1225496505&sig2=rYn8iDg_wxaL0YUAS0Ko5A&usg=AFQjCNHRsYf-bW5bh-Oa6I6Tawq55--K-A

They announced the move to Bixby back in February:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=0-0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tulsaworld.com%2Fnews%2Farticle.aspx%3FarticleID%3D20080212_2__BIXBY06022&ei=1NuRSNjDKqjG6gGCk7DYBw&usg=AFQjCNGDInJGN5Z7g3Fj4gmCQs2hllairA&sig2=4yO7bLx5EWYhBCoSq2JE4Q

Not sure what they would announce in Tulsa involving OKC and the D-League.  I'm a at a loss and found nothing.  I wouldn't think it would be just 66er news, or the big wigs wouldn't all come and it wouldn't be "major D-League annoucnement."

Whatever it is, the push to include Tulsa in the OKC market is on.


[edit] The Iowa D-League team is called the "Energy" so I doubt OKC will end up with that name.[/edit]

[Friendly Bear]

quote:Originally posted by FOTD

Two names! Oklahoma Boom and Oklahoma Bust depending on the current situation......

How about naming them the "Clay Pigeons", in honor of team owner millionaire Clay Bennett??

[cannon_fodder]

The "big news" is that the Oklahoma City ownership of their NBA team has purchased Tulsa's D-League team from the local ownership:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/sports/article.aspx?articleID=20080731_2__Apres07636

So it is the Tulsa 66er's of Bixby care of Oklahoma City.

Whoopie.

[Townsend]

quote:Originally posted by cannon_fodder
So it is the Tulsa 66er's of Bixby care of Oklahoma City.

Whoopie.

I was wondering if there was another basketball team I was going to not go see...well there it is.  Go 66er's of Bixby care of Oklahoma city, go!!

[Nik]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/65516705@N00/sets/72157606440038571/

Most of these are pretty bad and some are obvious jokes.

Here are some of the better ones:

[tnt091605]

Team Taylor,  I know its not Tulsa's team but she will want to be Governor some day.  It will be easier to just name it that way now instead of her buying the team and having to rename it.

[mrB]

quote:
NBA Hints At Oklahoma City Team's Name
Posted: Aug 6, 2008 02:19 PM CDT
Updated: Aug 6, 2008 03:59 PM CDT

The page "www.nba.com/thunder" is shown in the left corner when a user places their cursor over Oklahoma City in a Wednesday afternoon screen grab of the NBA's web site.

OKLAHOMA CITY - When the NBA posted the 2008-09 season schedule, they may have revealed a clue to the long-anticipated naming of Oklahoma City's new franchise.

On Wednesday afternoon, users who clicked on Oklahoma City on the schedule page were directed to www.nba.com/thunder. The link pulled up a "page not found" message.

The page http://www.nba.com/schedules/?team=thunder also directed users to the SuperSonics results from last season. Later Wednesday afternoon the page was change to read "Oklahoma City Thunder Schedule."

Team spokesman Dan Mahoney said the link was a glitch on the NBA's site and the team had notified the NBA of the mistake.

Thunder was one of the six names the NBA registered as trademarks for the team earlier this month.

The Oklahoma City Bison, Barons, Wind, Energy, Marshalls and Thunder were registered, according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office database. The names were registered on July 21.

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http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=8799493

An NBA trick to throw us off?

[Townsend]

So the name's to be announced today.   Anyone know it yet?

[sgrizzle]

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

Somehow just anti-climactic

I heard some of the sports talking-heads from the area lament how they thought the logo looked like someone ripped off a loaf of Wonder Bread.  I'm ambiguous about it, really.

[Renaissance]

You mean ambivalent, right?

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by Floyd

You mean ambivalent, right?

Uh, yeah...[8D]

My meaning was 'I'm neutral'.

Never said I was a mensa.  I always get those two confused.  [:O]

[sgrizzle]

It's possible I'm ambiguously ambivalent, but I'm not sure.

The reason the logo is crap is that it could say anything above the logo. It could say "Oklahoma City Widgets" and the logo still fits. It has nothing to do with the team name at all.

Here's a high res version for anyone who is bored and has photoshop: