Every year, Sporting News names its top sports cities. This year, Oklahoma City (it includes Norman) finished No. 37, up 42 spots from last year. OKC is right behind Toronto and San Antonio and

Thunder! Basketball! Tonight! Woo. Reader Dylan sent along this amusing anecdote: “Fun fact: On NBA2k10, Hasheem Thabeet is a 57 overall. Taylor Griffin is a 62.” Your second overall pick everyone! Somewhat interesting for

Another excellent feature from the NYT about OKC’s three “students”: “Westbrook, a second-year guard for the Oklahoma City Thunder, walked in late to a history class this summer at U.C.L.A. As the N.B.A. opens

Alert: Two days until the Thunder plays competitively against another team. Two-a-days wrapped Saturday with a scrimmage and now the team starts prepping for games. It feels good to almost have the NBA back.

Of course. It was all the media’s fault: ”While playing in Poland for their respective national teams this summer, Krstic and Gortat began what Krstic described as a friendly conversation in the presence of journalists.

I’m going to start firing up a few weekly features for the season in the very near future including podcasts, weekly chats and a few other running things. And also, we’ve got kind of

Housekeeping note: There is now a mobile edition for Daily Thunder. I’m still making a few tweaks to it so if it changes or messes up, that’s why. Barkley’s Mouth asks if Kevin Durant

First off, Happy Training Camp Day and Happy birthday to Kevin Durant who turns 21 today. Go get yourself an adult beverage young man. You deserve it. John Hollinger has his forecast up for