Happy return to Tulsa for Etan Thomas as Thunder beats Heat

 
By Darnell Mayberry, Staff Writer, dmayberry@opubco.com
Published: October 15, 2009

TULSA — The hometown kid stepped to the free-throw line with 11.4 seconds left and a chance to ice the game. Swish two freebies, and the accomplished author would walk out of the BOK Center as the star of a fairytale that not even he was imaginative to pen.

But Etan Thomas would indeed have his storybook ending. The former Booker T. Washington High star sank a pair of free throws that secured a 96-91 pre...


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