With all of the news and hype surrounding our first opening game of the 2008-2009 NBA season there is a lot of information to take in. For starters, some great news I have heard is that the Bricktown Parking Garage and BPI Parking lot will have free parking during the Oklahoma City Thunder game tomorrow, Oct. 29. Awesome of them to do that for OKC Thunder fans. The reason they mentioned they were doing it is that they want to make sure fans are aware that in the future their parking will never be more than $5.

As of 5:00PM today there were still 200 tickets available to be purchased by Oklahoma City Thunder Fans. Tickets start at just $10 for the upper levels. People have spent the past few months making videos, music and writing about their favorite OKC Thunder basketball player whether it be Kevin Durrant, Jeff Green or Joe Smith. People are excited about Oklahoma City being a big league team and can’t wait for the tip off tomorrow.

The big talk is Thunder Alley and the near block party atmosphere that will be happening tomorrow. Downtown Oklahoma City in around the Ford Center and throughout Bricktown will be one giant party for Oklahoma City Thunder fans with everyone celebrating this historic event for the OKC Thunder Basketball team.

The Oklahoma City Thunder may have had a rough preseason with a 1-6 preseason score. However, there is still a lot of enthusiasm for OKC to do well in the coming NBA season. Since we took veterans Desmond Mason and Joe Smith in August there is a lot of excitement that we will have some much needed toughness, defense , skill and leadership to the team. Something that the Seattle Sonics didn’t have much of last year. With the new veteran leadership I belive we can have an excellent first season.

The Ford Center will hold an open (see: free) practice for the Oklahoma City Thunder. Giving an opportunity to Oklahoma Thunder Fans to come and check out the team. This great opportunity will start at 5:30PM. The event will even have the Oklahoma City Thunder Dance team out doing activities.

It sounds like the OKC Thunder Dance team will be greeting everyone as they shuffle in to the Ford Center. Be sure to bring your camera and submit any photos you take of the practice to this site and I will post them in the gallery (with credit). I may just pull a Flickr feed in the future…

Tickets are free and simply general admission. Check original press release here.

The La Ball Talk’s Laker blog is doing a contest for best team blog amongst NBA teams and this blog was nominated. There are several other Oklahoma City Thunder Blogs that are in the running. The LA Ball Talk website should have the polls open sometime this week and give everyone an opportunity to vote.

I’ll post a link to the poll page as soon as voting is opened, so keep an eye out for that sometime this week and definitely help me out by voting for this blog.

Checkout the LA Ball Talk website.

We played our first home game in the preseason on the 14th. We nearly took down the clippers coming out with a 90-88 loss. We aren’t doing too bad and I think we have a change this season, our first, to show that we mean business and gain some respect in the NBA community.

As long as we all show our support for the Oklahoma City Thunder we can prove to everyone that Oklahoma City is a big league team and we mean business.

With our upcoming first season game against the Milwaulkee Bucks coming up you can feel the excitement rising in Oklahoma City. You see people wearing Oklahoma City Thunder apparrel and it for sale everywhere.

I think we are going to have a great basketball season this year in Oklahoma City. I’ll keep everyone posted on the games. If anyone is interested in me live blogging the games let me know and I will set something up.

After a brief intermission from this site I was able to get back to finishing the design and writing content about the Oklahoma City Thunder. Not too late, either, as our first game is coming up on October 29th against the Milkaukee Bucks. It will be at the Ford Center at 7pm and I hear that tickets are still available.

Single tickets will actually go on sale Tuesday, October 7th at 10:00AM CDT. They will be available by phone or on the official Thunder website. I believe all the tickets alloted for the season ticket bracket are sold out but there are still packages available if you only want to see certain games. For instance, there is an Allstar package that will give you Miami Heat, Lakers and several other popular teams. Call 405-208-4800 if you are interested in getting in on the packages before they sell out.