Name will be Thunder...

soonerstatestud · Post #1 » by **soonerstatestud** » Wed Aug 6, 2008 8:33 pm

http://www.nba.com/schedules/?team=thunder

Here is an active link to the NBA schedule using the team name "Thunder". It also refers to the team as the "Oklahoma City Thunder" on that page.

None of the other 5 trademarked names are linked to the OKC schedule.

ljp24 · Post #2 » by **ljp24** » Wed Aug 6, 2008 9:10 pm

Damiit Clay, what was wrong with Barons/Marshalls?

theTHIEF · Post #3 » by **theTHIEF** » Wed Aug 6, 2008 9:13 pm

not sure if that makes it official...have to wait it out some more...not a fan personally...

soonerstatestud · Post #4 » by **soonerstatestud** » Wed Aug 6, 2008 9:32 pm

The link is no longer actively linked to the OKC schedule. My guess is that the OKC management heard about it on the radio today and gave the NBA a phone call. Anyway, hundreds of people saw the page already, so I'm not sure it's such a big secret anymore. Mark Rogers reported it about 3 weeks ago.

Sorry that the link doesn't work anymore, but when I posted this it did bring up the OKC schedule on the official NBA website.

soonerstatestud · Post #5 » by **soonerstatestud** » Wed Aug 6, 2008 10:24 pm

More Thunder info:

ESPN also picked up this story in their TrueHoop blog here.

http://myespn.go.com/nba/truehoop

They also include a link to a screen shot taken before the page was taken down here.

http://www.thelostogle.com/2008/08/06/h ... -a-secret/

McG · Post #6 » by **McG** » Wed Aug 6, 2008 10:28 pm

soonerstatestud wrote:More Thunder info:

ESPN also picked up this story in their TrueHoop blog here.

http://myespn.go.com/nba/truehoop

They also include a link to a screen shot taken before the page was taken down here.

http://www.thelostogle.com/2008/08/06/h ... -a-secret/

Bennett and Co. really need to learn how the World Wide Web works. First the e-mails and now this!? At least hire some reliable IT!

soonerstatestud · Post #7 » by **soonerstatestud** » Wed Aug 6, 2008 10:38 pm

McG:

I would guess this one falls completely on the NBA end. The "Thunder" wouldn't have anything to do with updating the official NBA website. My guess is that the name is known among the NBA front office and someone in IT was trying to get the OKC stuff ready to go for the name launch. Someone didn't get the memo that the "Thunder" info wasn't supposed to go live yet and several of the pages got linked when the schedule was posted. It was either an accident...or...some IT guy did it on purpose to link the name to internet savvy fans.

Ripcity4life · Post #8 » by **Ripcity4life** » Thu Aug 7, 2008 8:57 pm

IF its true i can already see it -

Garth Brooks on opening Night Singing either the Nat Anthem and/or his Song Thunder Rolls or maybe they ask him to do a version of his song for them. He is after all from Oak and it makes sense. Just a thought

grayson11 · Post #9 » by **grayson11** » Sat Aug 9, 2008 12:04 am

They just have to add cats to the name and hire Dante & Galante as the broadcasting crew.

JO_CB_FTW · Post #10 » by **JO_CB_FTW** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:19 pm

lolz. good job IT peepz

porkchop87 · Post #11 » by **porkchop87** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:50 pm

grayson11 wrote:They just have to add cats to the name and hire Dante & Galante as the broadcasting crew.

That would be so lame if the team was called the Thundercats :lol:

DaBulls_91 · Post #12 » by **DaBulls_91** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:28 pm

or it would be so cool if they did because dante and galante are awsome lol

InstantClassic · Post #13 » by **InstantClassic** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:02 pm

Thundercats would be better than Thunder, IMO... hahaha