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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]
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 ...
The Thunder finished the season 55–27 as the 3rd-seed in the Western Conference. In the first round of the Playoffs the Thunder easily beat the Dallas Mavericks in a 4–1 series victory. The Oklahoma City Thunder continued onto the Western Conference Finals in the NBA Playoffs, but giving up a 3–1 lead against the 73-win Golden State Warriors.
4. The Thunder play defense like there’s no tomorrow. A most common complaint about NBA basketball is that teams don’t play defense. A) That’s not true.
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 major renovation of the KeyArena in 2007. After failing to do so, he decided to move the team to Oklahoma City. [2] Seattle sued Bennett's group to ...
Harden provided a spark plug off the bench during his time with the Thunder. He averaged 16.8 points and 3.7 assists during the 2011-12 campaign, which helped him win the Sixth Man of the Year award.
He would record albums for Warner Bros. (which also reissued Bob James' CTI and Tappan Zee/Columbia back catalog in the mid-1990s) for the next seventeen years. His collaboration with Earl Klugh , One on One , won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance in 1980 and has sold over one million copies.
The Thunder open play in the NBA in-season tournament against the Warriors without Shai Gilgeous-Alexander OKC Thunder and the 'Group of Death.' Predictions and explaining the NBA in-season tournament