America's love affair with Orlando Summer league announcer Dante and Galante has been well chronicled already. They're funny, they're kind of pranksters and they're straight up honest in their opinions. They combined the last two traits recently, to punk a few people. Namely some people on Yahoo! answers, who actually thought that Oklahoma City might name their the most horrible name that I hear for an NBA team in my entire life.!!Yes, clearly. But before you call me ridiculous for even mentioning this (it did after all, get corrected later down the page), bear in mind that someone actually went out and and purchased oklahomacitythundercats.com and okcthundercats.com, which is kind of insane actually.
Totally wrong.!!
[...]Why not name them after an Indian tribe from Oklahoma or something else that has significance to Oklahoma?
There is literally zero chance that Clay Bennett allows Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook to become Thundercats, which makes that, well, kind of a poor investment. I'm all for the creativity involved in poaching domain names, and grabbing the new team name could work out pretty well for the greedy sucker that jumped all over it. But that doesn't mean there's anything rational in purchasing anything relating to Thundercats. Much less believing that would be the new name.


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7-11-2008 @ 5:25PM
David said...
Well, actually it's illegal for you to purchase the name of a company and try to extort the company for the name rights. If you have no intention of using the website and plan on trying to get money from the company, you can't use it.
They're called anti "cyber squatting" laws.
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7-14-2008 @ 10:54PM
Gerald Slane said...
I am glad you are raving about your summer league coverage. I thought it was terrible. If you are planning to do the same next year, don't even bother to show it. Your announcers were jerks. Since the screen was so small, all they needed to do was tell us who made the shot. An update on statistics from time to time would be nice. They would have less time for stupidity.
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