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Thunder (22-57, 7-31 road) vs. Milwaukee Bucks (32-47, 20-19 home)
TV: KSBI (Cox 15)
Radio: WWLS The Sports Animal (98.1 FM, 640 AM)
Time: 7:30 CST
Offensive Rating: Thunder: 102.8 (30th), Milwaukee: 106.5 (23rd)
Defensive Rating: Thunder: 109.5 (20th), Milwaukee: 108.1 (15th)
Pace:Thunder: 93.5 (8th), Milwaukee: 92.5 (11th)
Well it’s been a long time. Opened the season with these guys and now the third to last game. And with that much space between, things change. A lot.
There’s just five players on OKC’s roster that are still receiving playing from that Oct. 29th game. Milwaukee’s starting lineup has been shifted around, Andrew Bogut is hurt and so is Michael Redd. So it’s kind of sort of hard to use the last meeting as any sort of barometer.
One thing that did happen in that first game was that the Bucks abused OKC on the inside. They outrebounded the Thunder 43-35 and they scored over half their points in the paint. I actually remember thinking after that game, “Man Chris Wilcox needs more playing time. He’s the only guy that did anything.” Because that’s true. He led OKC with 13, Kevin Durant had just 12 and just four Thunders were in double-figures. It was just a bad game. Keep Reading…

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in 32-year-old general manger Sam Presti, who was a Rhodes scholar nominee. But it doesn’t take a hoops Einstein to figure out that this state’s NBA franchise better figure out a way to get the draft rights to the best player this state’s produced since Tulsa’s very own wonderful Wayman Tisdale. It will, however, take someone with Presti’s intelligence to put together a deal that puts Griffin in a Thunder uniform without giving away the farm.”



Forty-one nights of Thunder
Oklahoma is known for its wild weather. One day it’s 75 and sunny then the next it’s 35 and snowing. Maybe at 10 a.m. it’s perfect and clear and at 4 p.m. it’s raining and the wind’s blowing 200 miles per hour. It’s just the way it is and the way it will always be. It’s completely, utterly and totally unpredictable.
But as random and impulsive the weather can be, there was one thing Gary England could predict and nail every time – it was going to Thunder 41 nights this year. And there was even a schedule to prove it.
Sure the scoreboard read 84-81 in favor of Oklahoma City, which was a nice way to close this inaugural home season. But Friday’s game against Charlotte was about more than the final score. 19,136 piled the Ford Center full, equipped with aptly named ThunderStix ready to make some noise and let this team know that we like having them around. And what happened was a two and half hour party with the main attraction being five guys in white that played with guts, emotion and desire. It was like they were hell-bent and determined to send the raucous crowd home happy. It was almost like they were trying to make up for the disappointment of Opening Night. Keep Reading…