Go Thunder.

[Major Robert Dump]

No, like seriously. Go Thunder. We are big league now, pretty soon we will have riots and gang shootings and all you big cities will not have a monoply on pro sports. I am dusting of my gang colors and Mac-10 right now.

[Centurion1]

lol okc already has plenty of gangs dont worry.

[stratigos vasilios]

I don't generally follow the NBA but when it's finals time I like to watch it. Who do you think you'll be playing in the final(s)? Hopefully Boston gets up against Miami, Celtics v Thunder final!

[Major Robert Dump]

OKC does NOT have gangs. OKC is God's land, everyone knows that, so the gangs stay away. I met some Zeta Cartel guys once at the gas station they had packed their furniture in the back of their Toyota Tercel and I was all like "r u moving?" and they were all like "si, god scare us from here"

@stratigos: I have no idea who it will be, because it would be like gambling on two crippled race horses. San Antonio was it. The other two teams suck compared to the Spurs, and OKC has home team advantage. But I fear that if we do not get some more shootings then the team won't fit in.

If you had told me 10 years ago OKC would have a pro team some day I would have said LOLZ. But the city is really eating them up, all these repressed okies and with life starting at conception and their open carry gun laws, well they need something like the Thunder. The Thunder goes to grade schools and teaches kids how to play basketball and then the kids teach the team how to read, it really is a mutually beneficial arrangement.

Plus, with a team of cheerleaders thats adds a whole new crop of women out of my league I can try to sleep with, I go to all the tryouts and wait outside and console the losers and then tell them they should be models and that I am a photographer and have some cameras back in my motel room.

EDIT -- By the way, I am still in San Antonio and our 1SG this morning warned all of us with Oklahoma tags to watch our butts in the ghettos outside the base today

[drone]

Seattle is about to get even more depressing...

[Strike For The South]

It's 11:45 and Oklahoma still sucks

[Major Robert Dump]

I think the last time you said that in a thread OU and OSU both got bowl games and your team, what was it again, North Texas University?, ended up in like the Great Value Brand Bowl. I may be getting my facts a little mixed up, the heat down here makes people retarded which explains Little Baltimore surrounding the base.

[classical_hero]

[Major Robert Dump]

oh dear. i used to play this in my backyard in the 10th grad ewhen i sunbathed and the old lady next door would complain to my parents. She died, though, and her jailbait granddaughter comes and hangs out with me now when i visit so its all good and i am going to hell

[Strike For The South]

I think the last time you said that in a thread OU and OSU both got bowl games and your team, what was it again, North Texas University?, ended up in like the Great Value Brand Bowl. I may be getting my facts a little mixed up, the heat down here makes people retarded which explains Little Baltimore surrounding the base.

Wrong on all counts. Not surprising for a Sonner.

although lol@ little Baltimore.

[Major Robert Dump]

Wrong on all counts. Not surprising for a Sonner.

although lol@ little Baltimore.

I got it wrong on purpose. It's what I do. I impressed myself with the Great Value Bowl

[Crazed Rabbit]

Seattle is about to get even more depressing...

We have a competent soccer team. I'm more than happy with that trade.

CR

[Major Robert Dump]

Bump for good measure. Too bad I can't be home to get drunk and fall in the sewer they call the Bricktown Canal

[Centurion1]

The meth is Flowing freely in the streets tonight

[A Nerd]

[Major Robert Dump]

The meth is Flowing freely in the streets tonight

And the Natty Light

[GeneralHankerchief]

Just once I'd like a year where the teams I root for in both the Stanley Cup *and* NBA Finals win the championships. Just once I want to go 2-for-2. Oh well.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Just once I'd like a year where the teams I root for in both the Stanley Cup *and* NBA Finals win the championships. Just once I want to go 2-for-2. Oh well.

[Major Robert Dump]

Apparently the NBA will implement a new rule where if you are within 2 feet of Lebron James you auto foul

Also, he cannot foul anyone ever because he has had collision turned off by the programmers

The Thunders amazing combacks were always reliant on pretty good play calls and refereeing, neither of which they got in game 2 or 3. Didnt watch 4 or 5

Oh well, FYI it is a team of 23 year olds. Assuming loads dont get traded or leave, they will only get better. Durant and Harden are pretty good for kids

[Centurion1]

after the boston series i swore off the nba. it makes me sick.

also i tore my meniscus dunking in a pickup game so i have a resentment building for the game.

[Centurion1]

Apparently the NBA will implement a new rule where if you are within 2 feet of Lebron James you auto foul

Also, he cannot foul anyone ever because he has had collision turned off by the programmers

The Thunders amazing combacks were always reliant on pretty good play calls and refereeing, neither of which they got in game 2 or 3. Didnt watch 4 or 5

Oh well, FYI it is a team of 23 year olds. Assuming loads dont get traded or leave, they will only get better. Durant and Harden are pretty good for kids

issue is westbrook and durant already have max deals. so you can choose between harden or ibaka. cant have both unless you also want to get rid of perkins, sefalosha, and collison.

plus the owner refuses to do a luxury tax under at any point.

[Major Robert Dump]

This is all new to me, as I dont follow sports closely and was unaware of the salary cap thing. What do you mean by luxury tax, I don't get it?

Oh well, it was a good run. Kind of cool to finally have a pro team in the state, and the city really adjusted well by adopting the colors for some local gangs and shootings at bars during the broadcasts.

[Centurion1]

meh luxury tax is if i understand it correctly (im not a huge sports geek with laws and the like) is when you go over a certain amount. Then the government taxes you a dollar for every dollar over, essentially 1:1. Teams have gone over it before but very few like too and they tend to be Huge franchises like the celts, knicks, and lakers. a small market team like OKC would never want to. Heres the wikipedia explanation which is pretty clear.

While the soft cap allows teams to exceed the salary cap indefinitely by re-signing their own players using the "Larry Bird" family of exceptions, there are consequences for exceeding the cap by large amounts. A luxury tax payment is required of teams whose payroll exceeds a certain "tax level," determined by a complicated formula, and teams exceeding it are punished by being forced to pay one dollar to the League for each dollar by which their payroll exceeds the tax level.
While most NBA teams hold contracts valued in excess of the salary cap, few teams have payrolls at luxury tax levels. The tax threshold in 2005–06 was $61.7 million dollars. In 2005–06, the New York Knicks' payroll was $124 million, putting them $74.5 million above the salary cap, and $62.3 million above the tax line, which Knicks owner James Dolan paid to the league. Tax revenues are normally redistributed evenly among non-tax-paying teams, so there is often a several-million-dollar incentive to owners not to pay the luxury tax.
The luxury tax level for the 2008–09 season was $71.15 millon.[2] For the 2009–10 season, the luxury tax level was set at $69.92 million.[3] The luxury tax level for the 2010–11 NBA season was $70,307,000.
The 2011 CBA instituted major changes to the luxury tax regime. The dollar-for-dollar tax provisions of the previous CBA remain in effect through the 2012–13 season. Starting in 2013–14, the tax changes to an incremental system. Tax will be assessed at different levels based on the amount that a team is over the luxury tax threshold. The scheme is not cumulative—each level of tax applies only to amounts over that level's threshold. For example, a team that is $8 million over the tax threshold will pay $1.50 for each of its first $5 million over the tax threshold, and $1.75 per dollar for the remaining $3 million. In addition, "repeat offenders", subject to additional penalties, are defined as teams that paid tax in four of the five previous seasons. As in the previous CBA, the tax revenue is divided among teams with lower payrolls.[15] However, under the new scheme, no more than 50% of the total tax revenue can go exclusively to teams that did not go over the cap; the use of the remaining 50% has not been specified in the new agreement.[6]