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The team relocated to Oklahoma City and began play as the Oklahoma City Thunder in the 2008–09 basketball season, becoming the third NBA franchise to relocate in the 2000s. The Professional Basketball Club on January 8, 2008, sold the Storm to an ownership group consisting of four Seattle businesswomen. [6]
Bennett is the chairman of the Oklahoma City-based Professional Basketball Club LLC (PBC), which owns the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder.Formerly known as the Seattle SuperSonics, the team was purchased from Howard Schultz in 2006 for approximately $350 million with Bennett promising a good-faith effort to keep the team in Seattle, provided there would be a public commitment to a new arena.
A plan for such build-out improvements began in 2007. It came in the wake of the acquisition of the Seattle SuperSonics by an Oklahoma City-based ownership group the previous October. A city ballot initiative approved by a 62 percent margin on March 4, 2008, extended a prior one-cent city sales tax for a period of 15 months in order to fund ...
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Luguentz Dort (5), forward Jaylin Williams, left, forward Gordon Hayward and forward Jalen Williams, right end a postgame interview after an NBA basketball game between ...
OKC Thunder player grades for NBA Las Vegas Summer League. Buddy Boeheim: After spending the first two seasons of his pro career with Detroit and its G League affiliate, the Motor City Cruise ...
The Thunder has not won a championship since the franchise moved to OKC in 2008. The closest OKC came to a title was in 2012. The team suffered a 4-1 series loss to Miami in the NBA Finals.
The Thunder is owned by Professional Basketball Club LLC with Sam Presti as its general manager. The team was formed in 1967 as the Seattle SuperSonics. After spending 41 seasons in Seattle, the SuperSonics moved to Oklahoma City. Owner Clay Bennett, who purchased the team in 2006, sought to get public funding for a new arena in Seattle, or a ...
Forty-three teams in NBA history have started a season 7-0. Only one of them, the 2024-25 Oklahoma City Thunder, have won their first seven games all by double digits.. The Thunder’s closest ...