Road to success: OKC Thunder TV announcers credit their hard work

 
By Mel Bracht | Published: September 19, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

The new Oklahoma City Thunder TV team of Brian Davis and Grant Long said hard work has paid off in their careers, and they believe that philosophy will be the theme of the team's inaugural season in Oklahoma City.

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"Hard work made this place and hard work, I know, made my family,” Davis said Wednesday after he was introduced as play-by-play voice. "My mom was a coal miners' daughter. My dad was the son of dirt farmers in South Carolina. Three years before I was born, he was driving a taxi. I've kind of come at life with a little bit of a bootstrap mentality; I never thought I'd ever get this far.

"The fact that he (Grant) stayed as long as he did in the league speaks to his work ethic. If you take that, you have two guys that fit with what the ownership and the management of this team want and the way that these guys go about their business.”

Long, a 6-9 forward from Eastern Michigan, averaged 9.

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