The Thunder fought hard in their attempt to beat the Hornets tonight with a score of 88-79. Serge Ibaka scored 12 points with nine rebounds and two shots blocked. Making a great game in his teamwork with Kevin Durant for the New Orleans loss.

The Thunder was leading near the end of the game with just 5 minutes remaining, much like they did at Memphis. With a score of 79-75 the Thunder was able to even turn the basketball over 5 times in 5 minutes but were unable to come out with a win despite their attempts.

All in all a good basketball game against the Hornets but hopefully we can get some solid wins under our belt this season to really show everyone else we are a truly contender in the NBA.

The Oklahoma City Thunder has added 2 new players to our roster. The new players are Thabo Sefolsha from Chicago and Malik Rose from new York. Both were done as separate unrelated deals. General Manager Sam Presti has said that they haven’t decided when Rose and Sefolosha will join the OKC Thunder.

In order to add these two new players to the Oklahoma City Thunder, the basketball team decided to waive on the not often used center Mo Sene.

Sam Presti also believes that these two new additions will help build the Oklahoma City Thunder into a well structures team that will better be able to cope with the rest of the league. We have already come pretty far from where a lot of people expected and I think moving forward we will be able to really show that Oklahoma City is truly a big league NBA team.

The Oklahoma City Thunder has announced that Rumble the Bison will be the new mascot for the Oklahoma basketball team. With the new OKC Thunder mascot sporting a white Thunder uniform and his name on the back Rumble missed his first dunk off of a pass from a member of the dunk team. Quite the introduction for the new Thunder Mascot.

Brian Byrnes, the Thunder’s senior VP of ticket sales said that the mascot’s name was choen based on the sound of thunder and the sound of bison, which is Oklahoma’s state animal for those of you not in the know.

Byrnes went on to say that “The bison is apowerful, surprisingly fast, close-nkit and travels as a herd, and represents the Thunder in an appropriate way.”

I think Rumble the bison works as the new Oklahoma City Thunder mascot, I have received some emails for people that would have liked to see Thor as the mascot but I’m sure that idea was passed on early on.

What does everyone else think about the Thunder mascot?

We may not be beating everyone but we are definitely developing a world class team in Oklahoma City. It isn’t going to happen over night, or even the first season. But we are pulling it together to compete with the best the NBA has to offer. We pulled a 107-99 win against the New York Knicks last night after having a 23 point lead throughout a full quarter and still clung on to win the basketball game.

With a full crowd, nearly 19,000 people in attendance we showed the NBA that we may have a rough start but we are in it to win it. Jeff Green was quoted as saying “We can’t let off the pedal, We’ve got to focus in a little bit more. But we handled it well.”

Kevin Durant pulled off 27 points during the game and Russel Westbrook was a close second with 22 points and 9 assists.

We will be playing the Houston Rockets on January 9th at 7PM, lets hope we can pull off a winning streak of some kind. I think we can show our neighbor to the south that we have the passion to win.

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.