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Published: March 6, 2008
What do we call them?
The one name that makes sense: Thunderbirds
The one name that makes sense: Thunderbirds
If the SuperSonics move to Oklahoma City (likely), and the name is left in Seattle as part of a negotiated settlement (likely), let me start the debate on a new name for OKC's team.
Thunderbirds.
There will be other ideas.
89ers, though don't bet on that, since Clay Bennett scrapped that name from the minor-league baseball team a decade ago.
Wildcatters, which would play to the oil industry and wou...
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