Bucks spoil Thunder’s Oklahoma City debut (AP)
October 30, 2008
A block party filled the street with fans in blue Oklahoma City Thunder shirts. NBA commissioner David Stern walked to midcourt and welcomed the city to the league. A banner was unfurled with the team's new logo. Then the ball was tipped off and the celebration promptly ended. Michael Redd, Richard Jefferson and Charlie Villanueva each scored 20 points and the Milwaukee Bucks gave Oklahoma City's...Party kicks off for Thunder’s home opener (AP)
October 30, 2008
Desmond Mason went through opening night for Oklahoma City's first NBA team, the displaced New Orleans Hornets. Now that Oklahoma City has a team to call its own in the Thunder, he expects crowds to be even more frenzied than they were during the Hornets' two-year stay. "It's hard to try to put in words what's going to happen tonight," said Mason, a former Oklahoma State star who joined the Thunder...Game to pay attention to: Indiana at Detroit (Yahoo! Sports)
October 29, 2008
Indiana Pacers at Detroit Pistons A lot of you are looking forward to the pair of ESPN games, a pair that...Bryant plays briefly in Lakers’ victory (AP)
October 25, 2008
Kobe Bryant, coming back from a knee injury, made a brief appearance at the start of Los Angeles' final preseason game Friday night and appeared to be moving fine in the Lakers' 105-94 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder. "Just making sure my rhythm was good, making sure my knee was good," Bryant said.
Stoudemire dislocates finger in Suns’ win (AP)
October 24, 2008
Amare Stoudemire scored 17 points before dislocating his left pinky and the Phoenix Suns, with their regulars together for the first time, beat the short-handed Oklahoma City Thunder 102-93 on Thursday night . With the victory, the Suns (5-3) completed their fifth straight non-losing exhibition season and 19th in the past 20 years.
BDL’s 2008-09 NBA Season Preview: Oklahoma City Thunder (Yahoo! Sports)
October 23, 2008
As the NBA preseason marches on, Ball Don't Lie looks at all 30 teams, outlining off-season transactions,...Seattle mayor still eyeing NBA’s return (AP)
October 21, 2008
Greg Nickels said he hasn't spoken to anyone with the NBA since the SuperSonics left Seattle in the summer, but the Seattle mayor feels "the door is open" to the league returning to what would be a remodeled KeyArena. Nickels said Seattle has already presented the outline of a new plan to Washington state lawmakers, seeking to authorize the use of local tax revenues currently going to the...Can the Celtics be caught, can the Lakers hang on? (AP)
October 18, 2008
One turn at the top of the NBA wasn't going to make Kevin Garnett forget all those years on the bottom. And he can't believe that people would think otherwise. So when Garnett heard the theory that he, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen couldn't possibly be as driven now as they were before finally winning their first NBA title, he wondered if the skeptics had been paying attention all along.Oklahoma City Thunder 2008-09 preview (SportingNews.com)
October 16, 2008
NULLThunder’s D.J. White has jaw surgery (AP)
October 15, 2008
Oklahoma City Thunder rookie D.J. White will be sidelined four six months while his jaw heals from surgery. The team said Wednesday that doctors removed a benign growth this week. The 6-foot-9 forward from Indiana will have another procedure in about six weeks in which a bone graft from his hip will be used to mend his jaw.