After going 8-0 and sweeping the Phoenix Suns and the Los Angeles Lakers in the first two rounds of the playoffs, the Oklahoma City Thunder hit a wall in the Western Conference Finals; specifically, a 7’5″ wall named Victor “Wemby” Wembanyama.
Despite barely edging out the Spurs for the top seed in the Western Conference, the Thunder had a 1-4… read entire post
Category Archives: OKC Thunder (NBA)
Celebrating the OKC Thunder with 700,000 Friends!
On Tuesday, June 24, Susan and I attended the parade in downtown Oklahoma City to celebrate the Oklahoma City Thunder winning the 2025 NBA Championship.
Monday, the day before the event, local news reporters had issued multiple warnings in regards to the event. The first warning was about the weather, with a predicted temperature of 90F degrees with the heat… read entire post
The Oklahoma City Thunder are (FINALLY) NBA Champions!
It’s been 17 years since the Thunder arrived in Oklahoma City. The team’s departure from Seattle was messy, but once they arrived in Oklahoma they became the Oklahoma City Thunder and that was the end of that as far as everyone here was concerned. That first year we welcomed players to Oklahoma like Jeff Green, crowd favorites like Nick Collison… read entire post
The End of a Thunder-ous Era?
I’d be lying if I said I understood every aspect of the NBA’s free agency policy. I know there are unrestricted free agents and restricted ones, but I think ESPN writer Royce Young said it best earlier this week when he said “In the NBA today, everybody is a free agent at all times.”
Last week at the beginning of… read entire post
Durant’s Golden State Warriors now 0-1.
As a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Kevin Durant made me do a lot of things. Once, after dishing an alley oop to Russell Westbrook, he made me leap out of my chair in the cheap seats so hard I spilled $9 worth of beer. Another time after hitting a buzzer beating shot to win in the finals, he… read entire post
Kevin Durant’s Exit: My Two Cents
The world needs another article about Kevin Durant’s decision to leave Oklahoma City for Golden State like the Warriors need another three-point shooter, but regardless, now that I’m back from vacation I feel compelled to write something.
As an adult in my forties, I don’t believe anything any celebrity says, ever. When you’ve watched the President of the United States… read entire post
NBA 2015-16 Rundown
The 2015-16 NBA season was a good one for Oklahoma City Thunder fans. With first year NBA coach Billy Donovan at the helm, the Thunder finished the regular season with 55 wins and 27 losses, placing them third in the Western Conference. In the first two rounds of the playoffs, the Thunder muscled their way past two aging but solid… read entire post
A Thunder Storm
Wednesday night for Mason’s birthday, Susan, the kids and I attended the Thunder vs. Hornets game. From the moment we found our seats and sat down I knew there were going to be problems. The people sitting directly behind us were already drunk and being loud and belligerent. This was 20 minutes before tip off.
You know you’re going to… read entire post
A Basketball Birthday for Mason
Mason was four or five years old when he attended his first NBA game, sometime during those two seasons when the New Orleans Hornets temporarily relocated to Oklahoma City during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Back then Mason was more into the food and halftime antics than he was the game, but there was something about basketball that stuck with… read entire post
And the Thunder Rolls … Over.
Rarely can a person determine the outcome of a professional basketball game by a single shot, much less the first one. But in Game 5 of the NBA finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Miami Heat, when LeBron James (as he has done before) waltzed through a crowd of defenders and threw down a monstrous dunk, I turned… read entire post