Oklahoma City Thunder

The basketball City Thunder is an Oklahoma City based professional basketball franchise that participates in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the NBA. The team's home stadium is the Ford Center, Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma City Thunder was formerly the Seattle SuperSonics. While at Seattle, the team beat the Washington Bullets to clinch the 1979 NBA Championship, won its division six times, basketball qualified for the NBA Playoffs 20 times. The team was reestablished as the Thunder in 2008 due to a dispute between franchise owner Clay Bennett and Seattle lawmakers. The Tulsa 66ers is also owned by the Thunder, and is the latter's NBA Development League affiliate.

The current head coach is Scott Brooks who succeeds P.J. Carlesimo. The team has had many famous players, including Gary Payton, called "The Glove", who earned the team's only Defensive Player of the Year in 1996, the only guard to have achieved the honor besides Michael Jordan. Payton is also the team's all-time leader in points, assists and steals. Ray Allen is another famous former player, achieving the All-Star in all the six years he spent with the team, breaking the record for the most three-point field goals in a regular season in the 2005-06 season with a score of 269. Ray Allen was later part of the 2008 NBA Championship-winning team, the Boston Celtics. Hall of Fame inductees who have served the team are Patrick Ewing, K.C. Jones, Bill Russell and Lenny Wilkens.

OKC hotels arrange shuttle services to all the attractions of Oklahoma City including the home of Oklahoma City Thunder, the Ford Center.

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