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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
The Seattle SuperSonics relocation to Oklahoma City was a successful effort by the owners of the Seattle SuperSonics to move the National Basketball Association (NBA) team from Seattle, Washington, to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The team, the third NBA franchise to move in the 2000s, began play as the Oklahoma City Thunder in the 2008–09 NBA season.
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 ...
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