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• After 40 Years, Spencer Haywood Finally Gets His Thanks
• By Tim Povtak 2/02/2010 2:00 AM ET
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• Spencer Haywood will walk into a Dallas hotel ballroom filled with the 24 NBA All-Stars next weekend, and not a head will turn. Hardly anyone will know the face. Several may know his name -- if they ... More »
• Tip-Off Timer: Mount Mutombo Erupts With 31 Blocks in First-Round Series
• By Chris Tomasson 9/26/2009 9:00 AM ET
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• Tip-Off Timer counts down the days until the first game of the 2009-10 season. On Saturday, there are 31 days remaining. Yes, there was Mount St. Helens in 1980. But there was another pretty ... More »
• Tip-Off Timer: After 41 Years, Sonics Leave Seattle for Oklahoma
• By Tom Ziller 9/16/2009 10:00 AM ET
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• Tip-Off Timer counts down the days until the first game of the 2009-10 season. On Wednesday, there are 41 days remaining. When Clay Bennett trucked his Sonics off to Oklahoma City in the summer of ... More »
• Gary Payton Hopes to Help Bring the NBA Back to Seattle
• By Elie Seckbach 8/28/2009 3:40 PM ET
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• Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos. Former NBA All-Star Gary Payton became "The Glove" when he starred ... More »
• 'Sonicsgate' Documentary Explores Truth Behind Team's Exodus From Seattle
• By Brett Pollakoff 8/22/2009 6:54 PM ET
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• Any basketball fan -- with the possible exception of those living in Oklahoma City -- can sympathize with the people in Seattle. After 41 seasons, the Sonics were unceremoniously ripped from the city, ... More »
• Revisiting the 2007 NBA Draft
• By Gary Washburn 6/24/2009 10:35 PM ET
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• FanHouse fixes a decade of draft-day blunders in Revisiting the NBA Draft. Hard to believe that several NBA general managers can have regrets after two years, but it's true. The results of the 2007 ... More »
• Revisiting the 2006 NBA Draft
• By Gary Washburn 6/23/2009 11:40 PM ET
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• FanHouse fixes a decade of draft-day blunders in Revisiting the NBA Draft. It's hard to blame the Toronto Raptors for taking a 7-footer with 3-point range and the ability to play three positions. ... More »
• The NBA May Be Dead in Seattle
• By Gary Washburn 5/12/2009 8:25 PM ET
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• While George Karl is on the verge of leading the Denver Nuggets to their biggest playoff victory since Dikembe Mutombo was seen clutching the ball on his back chanting "Yes! We win!" in leading Denver ... More »
• Clay Bennett Bailed Out By Washington State Politicians
• By Tom Ziller 4/27/2009 6:54 PM ET
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• Even though the Oklahoma City Thunder just wrapped up its inaugural season, some old Sonics fans maintained hope in a return of the NBA to Seattle. If Seattle could find a way to get a new gym or ... More »
• Wednesday's NBA Guide: Remember the Sonics in the Great Northwest
• By Tom Ziller 2/11/2009 4:00 PM ET
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• FanHouse's NBA Guide gives you a daily look at all the games that matter ... and some that don't. HEADLINER Oklahoma City at Portland, 10PM ET Either New York-Golden State made me cocky, or sometimes ... More »
• Seattle Native Spencer Hawes Rocks Green and Gold in OKC
• By Tom Ziller 2/09/2009 9:00 AM ET
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• One of the few current players vocal and active during Clay Bennett's franchisal flight to Oklahoma City was Seattle native Spencer Hawes, a youngster who grew up watching Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton. ... More »
• Don't Forget That Clay Bennett Is a Hero
• By Tom Ziller 12/17/2008 1:40 PM ET
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• As virulent the hate for Clay Bennett and his team of business ninjas has been in NBA fan circles (and in, um, Seattle), the man is a hero somewhere: Oklahoma. A familiar refrain from Sooner State ... More »
• Seattle Fans Crow About Troubles in OKC
• By Tom Ziller 11/20/2008 2:10 PM ET
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• Things aren't terrific in Oklahoma City. The Thunder had trouble selling out the Ford Center early this season, though the sales team managed to fill the building for Wednesday's epic matchup with the ...
• Already, Thunder Isn't Selling Out in OKC
• By Tom Ziller 11/09/2008 9:59 AM ET
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• We're less than two weeks into Oklahoma City's first real NBA season, the first two weeks the fans of OKC have had a team that's really their own. OKC hosted the Hornets famously well, selling out the ...
• NBA Essentials: Final 'Dunked On' Verdict
• By Tom Ziller 10/27/2008 8:59 AM ET
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• NBA Essentials ranks our six favorite stories of the day. 1. Trail Blazers Center Court. It takes a big man to admit you got dunked on. Greg Oden, today (and, err, every day) you are a big man. Oden ...
• David Stern Tried to Keep the Hornets in OKC, and Other Tales From the Birth of the Thunder
• By Tom Ziller 10/25/2008 4:25 PM ET
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• Bruce Schoenfeld of the New York Times Magazine has an absolute must-read on the birth of the Oklahoma City Thunder, a striking profile that digs deep to expose the nuance of Clay Bennett (he doesn't ... More »
• NBA Essentials: Perspective on WNBA Sexism
• By Tom Ziller 10/14/2008 8:22 AM ET
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• NBA Essentials ranks our six favorite stories of the day. 1. Basketbawful. A poignant consideration for anyone who considers un-fans of the WNBA to be sexist. 2. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Gary ...
• NBA Essentials: Bring It, Self!
• By Tom Ziller 9/10/2008 9:15 AM ET
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• NBA Essentials ranks our six favorite stories of the day. 1. Arizona Republic, via BSotS. Amare Stoudemire trash talks himself during practice, using his nickname in the process: "STAT, you can't miss ...
• Alternative (and Possibly Seizure-Inducing) Oklahoma City Thunder Logo
• By Brett Pollakoff 9/09/2008 4:58 PM ET
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• The new logo for the Oklahoma City Thunder went official last week, and saying that it's less than spectacular would be kind of an understatement. It was either thrown together too quickly, or there ...
• R.I.P. Thunder the Mascot, Unofficially
• By Tom Ziller 9/06/2008 11:05 PM ET
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• Watson previously suggested there may be a battle between the Thunder and the Warriors, considering the Warriors' mascot is named, uh, Thunder. (That's him above. Classy fellow.) According to ...
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