Name them The Oklahoma Super Suckers.

So lame for leaving Seattle.

How about the Oklahoma Back-Stabbers!

How about the Oklahoma Clay-Pigeons!

Oklahoma Rocks! Slam dunk in your face Seattle!!!

why on earth are you people mad at the folks in Oklahoma? They simply capitalized on what you people couldnt agree to do. If you're angry - fine, but direct it at the people that actually had something to do with the team leaving.

The Tornado.

I personaly like the OKC Storm. It would be ironic considering they are leaving the WNBA Storm behind. But that won't happen. Clay wants to strip the team of anything that relates to Seattle.

More likley that not they will be called the OKC Thunder. The home colors should be white with midnight blue trim. The away colors should be midnight blue with grey trim. The alternate jersey would be a grey with blue trim. The logo will be a lightning bolt striking a basketball.

I can also see a color scheme of brown and white but that wouldn't go with the nickname Thunder.

The Oklahoma Buffalo Chips

To the Oklahoma fans:
Enjoy your team, watch out for your owner and don't hire Wally Walker!

Have a Starbucks on us!! :(

OKC BOMBING BUZZARDS

To Jon: I don't think anyone is mad at the people in Oklahoma - they're mad at the Sonics for selling out and being whiny spoiled brats.

As for a name: I suggest the Oklahoma-Basketball-Players-Who-Don't-Really-Matter-Or-Do-Anything-Important

Just remember come voting time who the scumbags were and vote em out of office. Putting the lame legislators and equally lame mayor of Seattle in the line at worksource looking for a job will wake them up. Funny how this coincided with Nickels plan to re-time all the traffic lights in the downtown corridor. Now there will be even less traffic to contend with. Nice rollover, mister mayor.

Oklahoma Clay Putty..
Dust bags
Super Soakers
Oh! The Oklahoma Keggers !!

The Gitty ups!
The Farmers !
The Smitty's !

OKC Truckers...they could play in the Skool Arena and their mascot could be a used spit bottle named Clay.
It all fits being that you have to keep putting more money into it to keep you happy, no real benefit to the owner due to the cost, ruins others lives around you, and if it stays around long enough its a cancer.
THANK YOU CLAY FOR YOUR "GOOD FAITH" EFFORT!

The Bennet/Stern POS's

The Oklahoma City Bandits

Oklahoma Shafters!

I like the Oklahoma Twisters or the Oklahoma Hurricaines.

Are they being sold to OK, or is the current owner still owning them while in OK?

If sold to OK, who the heck cares what to name them...not our problem.

If the current owner is still going to own them, then Oklahoma Sell Outs has a nice ring.

Personally, I'm glad to see them go. They sucked anyway. Our money is being leeched out of us from two stadiums we didn't really want anyway. If they can't play in the Key Arena, they should have taken pay cuts and donated their own money into building their own damn arena.

Overpriced, overpaid sports players.

Good riddance.

Hey TD...Go back to work and your water ballet classes !!!

They sucked in Seattle, they'll suck in OKC too.. dunno why they even want them...

The Boo Hoo Bandits

The Good Faith Efforts

The OK City Possessed Men

Oklahoma City Tri-Nips

Since they're the new Clippers and you can't use Sooners, how about Slippers?

the uhauls

traveling is good and all but why pay to see dust devils go by

Frankly, it doesn't matter anyways. The Oklahoma Outlaws would do fine. I wish Kevin Durant and the players luck. Seattle will get another team, I am confident of that.

While David Stern and Clay Bennett conspired together, there is nothing we can do about it right now. When Seattle gets their team and Durant opts for free agency and heads to Seattle to finish what he started, the NBA can say they have a rivalry better than Boston and L.A.

Hey Mr. Clay, karma sucks.

First youn lose to Airbus and then to Oklahoma. Looks like it's Seattle that sucks!!!!

Wha, Wha, Wha..Who cares, OKC is a dust bowl in the middle of hell with the stench of a cattle feed lot in 100 degree temperatures. Who on that team was really worth a damn, Seattle kept the name and colors-start from scratch. Where are all these billion dollar ballers that were going to pony up the cash to buy them from Bennet? Whats next? the Mariners? they suck this year, do seattlites want to sell them off too? Professional sports has become too big of a business to be any fun anymore-overpaid ghetto punks.

Hey Jay Jay.....Is that you, Jay Jay the Jet Plane? Airbus? now THEY suck.

I've been saying it ever since they bought the team. Someone beat me to it here but call 'em the oklahoma city 'bombers'. Poor taste I know, but actually not a bad NBA name!

Way to go Howard!! Didn't have a clue how to run a Basketball team. Sold out for a buck to a bunch from out a state. What did you think was going to happen? Wally Walker - what an idiot!!! fit right in with Howard. They are to blame for all this mess!!

The Oklahoma Okie's

oklahoma City:
Westerners
reds{oklahoma=red people}
mountainers
foresters
masons
oilers
(all somehow related to tha city of O.K.

Ryan, thank you. It takes a real man to admit when he is wrong.

From a Husker fan to all my OU fan friends I think they should name the team the Oklahoma F'n Hillbillies. ;) (all in love, of course)

I like the "CLAY PIGEONS" personally,and yeah there's alot of funny $hit being said,lets here more...

Personally I'm just ecstatic that the NBA is cumming to Oklahoma. All those big sexy men on the court is a site to behold. My friend Chuck and Nope are going to buy season tickets.

How about the Drunk Switzers...Barry could be the mascot...Go Big Red!

The Oklahoma City Outlaws.
Nobody likes what Clay Bennett did, but what is done is done. I will be there to support the NBA in Oklahoma City.

Hmmmm....don't really care. Shame on Howard, he knew what was happening before he ever sold them!
And now they want the taxpayers to pony up millions for a remodel, in case another team may be interested.

NOT MY TAXES, THANK YOU!

Who gives a rip, team sucks, players suck, NBA sucks. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Take Howard and Mayor McCheese with you.

DustDevils

The Sooner Sonics?

Oklahoma Deliverance

Their mascot could be a banjo!

the cow tippers...lol

does it matter? id reather live in a portable toilet than that POS state anyday!!!!way to motivate the players..lmao!

How about the "Oklahoma City Perjurers"

*tips hat to Clay* The important thing is that they can't prove what goes on in that melon of yours, right?

How about the Oklahoma City Thieves...has a nice ring to it!

I can't believe people from Oklahoma are on here asking us not to be mad at them.

I think Sonic fans should be outraged at everyone involved in this debacle.

I am a washingtonian (ellensburg) temporarily in Oklahoma attending OSU. It is sad for the Sonics' families as Oklahoma has the rudest, most unfriendly people I've ever met. When the wind blows here you have to watch out for blowing garbage, not tree branches. Driving here is takign your life in your hands. People here have set the standard for aggressive rude driving (tailgating here at 80 miles an hour is common). There are 3 grocery stores in OK city--walmart, target, and crest. That's it. There is nothing like the multicultural atmosphere of seattle at all. Racism, elitism, classism, sexism are all alive here in Oklahoma. The so-called "bible belt" is a myth here. Crime is worse here than in seattle.
I feel sorry for the families of the players who will come here. Sure, the fans here will probably appreciate them more than seattle fans, but that is about the only benefit.
I can't wait to graduate and get out of here!

What single word, what simple nickname, could embody all that has taken place -- with Stern, Bennett, the e-mails, and Schultz for that matter? What could exemplify this whole matter -- that has sullied the NBA even further than it had been before?

I've got it.

The Oklahoma Crude.

How about the Oklahoma City Bombers.

And good luck, OKC, you are going to need it. The new OKC team will be quite bad for some time. Not many players will sign for that team. Maybe the your new basketball team won't stick around to pay off your new arean's debt... suckers.

the OKC GARGOYLES!!!! :P :P :P :q :q

Seattle doesn't deserve any sympathy. Cities across the land lose teams all the time. OKC had no pro teams and the Oklahoma owner was taking care of his own. With Seattle's fair-weather fan-base, your lucky you have any teams! I'm from the mid-west and if I had the money, I'd buy out the Mariners and the Seahawks because there are more deserving fanbases out there.

Stop being so stuck on yourself Seattle. Your residents are rude, your politicians are worthless, your economy is in decline and your crime rate is rising as a result of it. If NASCAR was too redneck for you, why do even care about sports? Latte drinkin' sissies!

You have a point on some of those issues Tim in Bremerton I agree. But dont think that everyone here is a fair weather fan. I've lived in seattle 8 years and really hate "seattleites" even though I am one. Going to sonics games was more then a sport, it was like being with a friend, if I never went to a game or was a fan I wouldnt care if they were leaving. The sonics probably saved my life, it was a focus in my life and gave me hope it gave me something to look up to and give some meaning and some fun in my life. It made me smile and made me feel good to make the trip downtown, grab a bite to eat at the food court in seattle center then watch the game from the nose bleed sections and cheer on my team if they were winning or losing. The people who will be hurt the most by this move is not the latte drinking corporate business people who I hate, but the true fans who have more sonics memorbila hanging on their apartment walls them pictures of their family. The true fans who loved the sonics will be hurt. As I said before, I have lost faith in the NBA and even more in the City of Seattle, they sold the sonics for a price and now the "true" fans will be hurt.

Its too bad, but I wish OKC luck and they really will be good in a couple of years. Far better than the Sonics ever were. Just get rid of you current coach Carlmismo is lame. reminds me of a mean dad.

Sorry if it's listed here already, but "Carpetbaggers" seems appropriate.

OKC Oil
OKC Crash
OKC Sloth
OKC Raiders
OKC Barrel Riders
OKC Prairie Dogs
OKC Snakes
OKC Rattlesnakes
OKC Face Faces
OKC BioFuel
OKC Roadkill
OKC Rats
OKC Laters
OKC puckups

i think that they should be called the oklahoma chicken hawks . that what that city is good of being.

OKC Swindlers

OKC Backstabbers

Oklahoma Cow Patties

I have a good name for the basketball team in OKC. Call the the OKC Bombers

How about OKC Dust Bunnies ?

The Oklahoma Tumbleweeds

Oklahoma Stolen Property

Bombers

How about the Oklahoma Steelers! Or the Schultz Steelers. Howard, you sold us out!

Clay Pigeons

how about the oklahoma hormones...?

jk, Washington loves Oklahoma.

DUST BUNNIES

I THINK THEY SHOULD BE NAMED THE OKLAHOMA LATERS CUSIN OF THE SOONERS. HAHA

How 'bout Oklahoma Tumbleweeds? As a transplanted Okie, I can tell you there are plenty of them blowing around their little downtown area.

Oklahoma City Carpetbaggers

Clay Pigeons

How about: OKC Trailer Parkers?!

The Pirates.

Oklahoma City Bombers
Oklahoma City Blast
Oklahoma City Vacuum (because they suck)

Oklahoma Outlaws

Hey, don't blame Oklahma though I blame them for everything since Kennedy...
But, SINCE THEY ARE MOVING IN THIS FASHION
OUTLAWS.

OKC Rustlers

Well first of all be nice. Oklahoma just got lucky w/ the Sonics... I think they should be named the Oklahoma Super Flames or just the flames... :-)

GO SONICS!

Oklahoma Innamaz

The OKC Federal Building

dont get on this or anything cause i actually think its being supportive and memorable
but the Oklahoma City 168 for the ones that died in the bombing
it would be good 2 name a team after ones that died in that terrible bombing

OKC U-Later

OKLAHOMA CRUDE! They have an oil derrick in front of their Capitol building. The name seems very fitting. Go Crude!

How about the "Okies"? Kinda derogatory in CA!

Couldn't think of a better name but OkyHomo's sounds pretty good. That or Dust Klukers would probably be a more appropriate one.

The Oklahoma Traitors fits them pretty well.

Just like Clay Bennett, they should be named the Oklahoma Raiders!

OKC Abductees

Bennett's Bastardes

I think they should be named the Seattle Supersonics!

How about the Oklahoma City Rustlers. They come in the middle of the night and steal your team.

I've got the perfect name for the new OKC Team.

The Oklahoma City Cracka Killa's.....

THE TURN COATS

The most appropriate, historically for Oklahoma and what they did to us:

The Oklahoma Rustlers

The Grapes (of wrath)

OKC Bandits

The Oklahoma Super Swindlers!!

Just can't resist how about:
Hokey Pokie Oakies?

The Oklahoma ASSHOLES

The Rustlers!

or The Dust (bowl)

HOW ABOUT THE OKC "BENEDICT ARNOLDS"???

oklahomo queens

I think they should be called, The Seattle Super Sonics!

Oklahoma City Sealers
Oklahoma City Cougers
Oklahoma City Dirtbags
Oklahoma City Bennet Bombers
Oklahoma City Clovers
Oklahoma City Cheese Balls
Oklahoma City Cooties
Oklahoma City Hot Dogs

Ryders

My wife this the Breachers is a good name I say the Traders.

Oklahoma City Little Girls that cry when they don't get their way and take NBA basketball teams away from loyal fans.........

The b.b. team in Oklahoma City should be named the Clay Pigeons.

Call them the stealers or the shamics.

Dung Beetles

The oklahoma dustbowl idiots

I like the suggestion Oklahoma Crude, or how about the Oklahoma Stealers, with an a!

The OKC Losers or Clay's Promise Busters

How about a variation of M. Reese's name:
I thought of the same name with a twist:
The "Clay Bennett'dict' Arnolds"

How 'bout:

OKC Dirt Bags
OKC Cow Pies
OKC Sooners or Later
OKC Bennett(edict) Arnold's
OKC Traders
OKC Okies

Sam Bennett, now that you got what you intially intended, take your team and get the hell out of Seattle and don't comes back. You are not welcome here.

I want to correct the spelling on one of the names I submitted in the above blog post.

OKC Traders should be OKC Traitors

Two years ago when Schultz sold us out I told everyone the new uniforms would be spelled SOONICS.

Seattle's lost the Pilots...lost the Sonics...nearly lost the Seahawks...nearly lost the Mariners...even lost that old NHL team they once had.

And Oklahoma City needs to worry about losing their new team?!

How about Clay's Liar liar. It's agood name for them.

The team already has a new name due to a prior arrangements as yet unknown, but it is the STERNICS.

I want to clarify my choice for a name:
I posted the "Clay Bennett'dict' Arnolds"
In the rules it said to keep it clean, so I did.
The 'dict' in the name is synonymous of what he did to the Sonic's fans.

Oklahoma City Bombers

The Oklahoma City Clay Pidgeons

I like the stealers. But really, is anyone REALLY surprized at all this, especially Schultz. Who sells ANYTHING to ANYONE and not expect them to "take the purchase home".Now you all see how big business is really conducted.

The should be called the Stealers!!

Okie Hokies
Okie Hoky Pokies

The Okies

Oklahoma City Claymates

I like the Rustlers or Carpet Baggers.

The Oakie Dokies

the Claymates

or The Thieves

Oklahoma Gooners. They already have the Sooners, but now they have goons (thugs) who took the team.

Here are two names for the OKC team:

1. Horse Thieves
2. Carpetbaggers

I like OKC - Robber-barrons or OKC Crooks.

I grew up in Tulsa, so I don't hold this against the people of Oklahoma - This was all about Clay Bennet and his partners. Knowing what has been revealed so far in the trial and all, he obviously planned that Seattle would fail to go along with his demands.

So, in the Boomer-Sooner spirit (for the pioneers that snuck across the border to grab their plots) the new team should be called the:

Oklahoma Claim-Jumpers!

I'm thinking of a couple of names

Dirt Bags

Merry Thieves

Rat Squad

This dosen't matter because Schultz is gonna Beat Clay in court and get our team back anyway so to the people of Oklahoma City and to Clay Bennett and his merry thieves enjoy your short lived victory because the team will be back in Seattle in no time.

How abuut...
-the OKC backstabers?
-the OKC buttfaces?
-The OKC losers?
-The OKC retards?
Come on! They're all true!

REMEMBER TO BOYCOTT STARBUCK'S and the billionaire loser that gave up the Sonics Howard Schmutz!

The Traitors
The Breachers

Although i do agree with this "Risa" person who commented before me, i think they should be called the 'Crushers'!

Oklahoma Fudge Packers

name- The OKC Thunder
colors-
main:blue
secondary:gold
other: silver
logo- a silver lightning bolt on top of a blue and gold basketball

I agree with 'Jeff'; ClaimJumpers

Honestly, folks. It's not Oklahoma's fault. The good Mayor of Seattle and Mr Bennet can claim that. The only thing I object to is Mr Bennet recreating history that was made here in Seattle, not there.

I think their new name should be the Oklahoma City Starrs.

The players are now going to be the new stars in town and will be making all new history. Let's us give them something good to remember from Seattle, not bad stuff and name calling. Get over it; it's done.

I say they should be called the Twisters, Oilers, or Mustangs

Their colors could be Black and Orange

Oklahoma City Cyclones

Who cares!!! good riddens!! Next seahawks and mariners good riddens too the losers

I'VE been boycotting starbucks since Howard shitforbrains sold the team to those gay okies

Okie's Ogars...

I like Claimjumper as well.

How about the OKC Lame Ducks. They'll Lame Duck A season so they can leave town.

All Jokes Aside I do Kinda Like the name Starrs.

The OKCheetahs

Oklahoma City Slickers

What about the
OKC Fujita's
like the fujita scale for tornadoes. So when they are really bad they can be nicknamed F5, since they really blow.

The Oklahoma "EXPLOSION" our state is "exploding" into a major league city and were a gas and oil state!

We can finally get rid of those higly paid good-for-nothing basketball players!

I can't believe our fellow Seattle citizens would shell out good money to buy over priced tickets to watch A SPORT, when we have underprivledged humans living in our city that need that money. We have trees that are dying, we have familes that are in need. We have fish, birds, and all of earth's non-human creatures that are in desparate shape!

Let those god loving backwards dirt farmers have that team. We can spend more money on the environment and the poor people of Seattle! Just today, I saw three needy young men asking strangers for money! They said they had no money for the addiction, so they had to beg in the streets! What kind of city do we live in where we have poor people begging for money? Now, perhaps we (the citizens and our government) can take care of these needs, since we will not be wasting good money on SPORTS. We can provide these needy young men and women with the assistance they need!

oklahoma mcveighs

How about the Oklahoma Donkeybators? Sounds about right. BTW, okies - Will Rogers obviously never met Clay Bennett. Hold this perjurer close to your dusty, feedlot-runnoff heart.

Okie Dopies?

In honor of Oral Roberts University, how about the Oklahoma Orals?

OC Spray

(O=Oklahoma; C=City)

I agree boycott starbucks and that good for nothing schultz,why make him richer buying over priced yuppy coffee,does anybody and i mean anybody own a coffee maker anymore.Second i wish the players would buck up and walk out on that "pigeon" quit,leave him with nobody,some other team would pick the good ones up eventually one would think.Third it would be even sweeter to see the pigeons plane go down with him and all his co-horts,no players of course just that jack ass.Just my opion...

How about the Oklahoma Whores?

Oklahoma City.. Bombers

The OKC Not my tax problem anymores.

I boycotted Starbucks as soon as I heard about the sale. I think they should be called the OKC Tumblin' Tumbleweeds.

The Sheep Stealers

Some of the names I think the team would enjoy would be:
The Lying,Thiev'en Oklahoma City Carpet Bagger's. Bennett's Bumbler's.
Bennett's Booty.
Bennett's Yuppie SCUM.

Name: The wildcatters
colors: red and steel gray

Okie-kadokies

Team Name: Clays Biotches

Thank you Clay bennet for ridding seattle of these lame ignorant "B".

Why would we of seattle want a bunch of lame ducks who's only claim to fame is the ability to claim ignorance because of their ethnicity?

These bunch of camp fire girls can't even beat their way out of a paper sack, let alone a real basketball team like the Storm.

Thank you again Clay Pigion.

Can you please take Wally Walker with you ?

The city of Seattle

1. Oklahoma BOOBS (Bennett's Overpaid & Overated Basketballers)
Mascot: Unhappy fat guy good ol' boy in rumpled suit w/big cigar throwing millions away
2. Oklahoma Horse Thieves
Logo: Fresh Road Apples
2. Oklahoma Star Bucksters & Hucksters (honoring Howard Schultz)
Colors: coffee stain brown
3. Oklahoma Incompetent Politicos: honoring Greg Nickels & Seattle City Council
Mascot: Incessantly yakking fat guy
4. Oklahoma Bajillions Down the Toilet (honoring the countless millions Horse Thief Clay Bennett will lose

Okc Benetts

Okcc Clays

Okc Cow Manure

Okc Dribbling Idiots

Okc Suckers

Okc Retards

Okc Poopstains

Okc Overpaid

I think the OKC Stealers would be appropriate. Remember also people, don't be pissed at the players - it's the managements decision to sell out.

I'm sad I won't be able to attend any true Sonics game in the future. Even if we get another team, it won't be the same. The Sonics will be truely missed.

OKC Nacho, that way they can say "the OKC Nacho team" LOL

(Nacho = not your for those on Phonics out there)

Bennett & Shultz suck!

I boycott Starbucks anyway, so come join the crowd people!! They're already closing a bunch of stores due to people not buying as much coffee. And hey, if you want coffee you can always try *gasp* a local joint on the street! They're usually just as good and half the price...just don't go in ordering one of those drinks that take you 5 minutes to say it, or they'll spit in your coffee!

the "BUBBAS"

I do not understand what is meant by Key Arena not being up to NBS Standards. I guess the 1995 upgrade to then Seattle Center Coliseum does not count for anything.

KeyArena is the first publicly financed arena fully supported by earned income from the building. Its seating capacity for basketball games is 17,098, ice hockey games and ice shows 15,177, end-stage concerts 16,641, and center-stage concerts and boxing 17,459. Risers hold 7,440 on the upper level and up to 7,741 on the lower level, with luxury suites adding another 1,160 seats.

The renovation cost the city of Seattle $74.5 million, and the Seattle SuperSonics approximately $21 million.
The first regular season game that the Seattle SuperSonics played in the rebuilt arena was on November 4, 1995, against the Los Angeles Lakers.

So what so they mean by not up to NBA Standards

OKC Sod Busters In memory of Oklahoma pioneers

OKC Sidewinders SW rattlesnake descriptive of new owners

OKC Forked Tongues An apt description of OKC business men and politicians associated with NBA basketball

OKC Devils They were in heaven and now they're in hell

OKC Barristas In honor of howard and Seattle

How about MachLess cause they will never be SuperSonic again

I was going to suggest "Rustlers", but I'm hopping on to the "Clay Pigeons" bandwagon. The team color could be a dull, mottled gray. The team could have a statue of David Stern in the parking lot for the "mascots" to sit on.

OKC Carpetbaggers. face it, the NBA does not want teams in the Northwest. First Vancouver, then Seattle, next up is Portland.

I suggest Robber Barons. It fits the ownership group to a tee. As well as Stern,Schultz, Nickels, the Seattle City Council and our lovely legislators in Olympia.

Okie Sternpokies

This is going to be like the situation in Green Bay. The players will definitely stick out in that sea of white.

The Okla-homos?

I suggest the OK Dipsticks in honor of Oklahoma's crude oil connection. Also, the citizens of Oklahoma will look pretty silly pretending that they earned the 1979 World Championship. A word to the wise to all other NBA cities: In the unlikely event that Stern has more than one buddy, make sure he doesn't come shopping in your city soon!

Poor Oklahoma City. They think they're getting an NBA team--instead they're getting the Sonics!
How about calling them the Oklahoma Losers because when all is said and donethat's what that franchise has become--LOSERS.

okc teats
okc teaty twisters
okc Brokeback chuckwagons
okc wish we were Teaxans
okc Hey Vern, It's Ernest!
okc Slam Dunk Ernest

You know, I really dont care for bringing in more millionaires who can barely read and write but since they are coming hopefully they will entertain us. I like the Oklahoma City Force. Black, Red, White as the primary colors. Dance boy! DANCE! O and the money talks and the coffee drinking grunge listening bullshit walks. Ya dig?

I like the idea of calling the team the Starrs, or how about "The Team Formerly Known As The Sonics" like Prince did?

I don't blame Clay Bennett for moving the team, Howard sold the team because the City of Seattle and the State of Washington wouldn't pay to bring Key Arena up to par. Hell the last remodel didn't bring Key Arena up to par with the rest of the NBA's venues. So I blame the overtly leftist liberal politicians that Washington is overrun with. Clay just did what any smart business person would do, he took his business to a city that offered better subsidies to him.

Maybe the City of Seattle could donate Key Arena to the Union Gospel Mission for use as a halfway house, homeless shelter, job training facility, etc... Then the city and King County could stop harrassing all the homeless people by forcing them to move their tents around.

Name them The Oklahoma Stealers, that would make two Seattle teams named Steelers we can hate. hahaha

Name them The Oklahoma Stealers, that would make two teams named Steelers we can hate. hahaha

I like the name OKC Pioneers.

i like the OKC Badits cause its not a dumb name but it fits cause the team was stolen from Seattle and the management are kinda like bandits so its a perfect name

The OKC Cornhuskers. Perfect

My stars! After reading all the rude remarks from the Seattle people, I don't blame everything Sonic for "looking forward to the move." Such angst. I'm glad they will be washing their hands of that name. A nice fresh start and being able to leave the bad taste of Seattle behind will be a true blessing for them. It will be refreshing for the team to be around some classy fans for a change. They'll be better off in Oklahoma City. They'll have wonderful supportive fans, and what a gorgeous downtown. The team members and their new fans will simply love Bricktown.

OKC Storm......

How about OKC Sternsbitches

How about the Oklahoma City McVeighs? These "classy" OKC rednecks can have them. Just remember, what goes around comes around. When they suck for you for a decade, don't come crying to us! Muaahahaha!

I have never heard so many people from one city cry so much. who cares the Sonics sucked anyway. good luck OKC

After reading everybody's responses I have come to a few conclusions. One, most everyone believes that Oklahoma is filled with nothing but Hillbillies and cheats. This is not true. Two, Oklahoma City and the residents of this state had nothing to do with the business dealings between Bennett and Schultz. So stop the personal attacks, especially the McVeigh comments. Next time, I'll make light about one of your family members dying in an act of terrorism.
As for the "Good faith dealings", how many times did the city of Seattle try to get a tax levy to help fund the remodel of the arena? Schultz capitalized on a demand, Clay was unable to get the Hornets to stay and Schultz turned on his blue-light special hat.
As for the name about the team, I really like th Barons. Nice and classy. Black and Gold, nice script lettering. The individual that came up with the mock jerseys did a good job. Hopefully the team will take a serious look at that name.

okc outlaws
okc oilers
okc indians
okc comets
okc pussycats
okc rogers
okc roughnecks
okc miners
okc jets
okc eagles
okc thunder cats
okc rain
okc strange
okc bricks
okc Spartans
okc pioneers
okc runners
okc mosquitoes
okc Zebras
okc Lizards
okc pit bulls
okc catfish
okc bass
okc buggies
okc ice
okc rigs
okc painters
okc yuppies
okc consumers
okc deer
okc ducks
okc turkeys
okc sharks
okc reds
okc panthers
okc patrons
okc citizens
okc you decide

there is a Aussie Rules Football team called the Essendon Bombers as in a Bomber Jet... Why not The OKC Bombers?

I think a good name for the new team would be
the Calavry.

They are going to be called the Oklahoma Thunder. The colors are probably going to be mainly black and lightning blue. Secondary colors will include gold, white and possibly silver. Seattle will get a team and it will probably either be the grizzlies or an expansion team. If they get an expansion team, another city will receive a team also. Either Connecticut, kansas city, missouri, wisconsin, or maryland will get the other team.

How about the
Oklahoma City RoadRunners

I like OKC Riders.
Anything but Thunder or for that matter weather related. Please no Tornado, Twister, Lightning, Hurricane, Rain, Ice, Hail, Storm, Snow, Humidity, Dew Point, Cumulus Clouds or whatever.

Oklahoma Stallions. Not okc stallions, lets get statewide pride, not just okc. Remember the horse industry in Okla. Go Stallions!!!!!!

They should be called something that sounds cool. A name with respect is important. A team nickname that symbolizes the idea of being able to go on the road and 'f up other teams is important. A team name that evokes lawlessness in the Southwestern United States is important for this unique city. A name with pride is important.

"Oklahoma City Raiders"

That would be pimp. "Thunder" is so lame. No one would want to play for the Thunder. A lot of players would want to sign as a free agent onto a bad-ass team called the Raiders.

Having grown up in Oklahoma, I think the perfect name would be The Oklahoma City RedNex (it would have to be spelled that way so that all the other rednecks wouldn't be offended).

HOW ABOUT OKC Numbnuts