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@Cpt. C-Note
"And every Western Conference team will be there except The Utah Jazz"

yeah, that is weird. But Utah does seem to march to their own beat.

on another note, Jeff Green has made the All Wired Troll Team!

http://www.rotorob.com/2009/06/05/the-all-wire-tro...

It's an honor, heh.

"these are the guys who weren’t drafted in most leagues"
I have no idea what that means. But hey, they got a nice Kevin Love pic there, anyway.

@daniel
And every Western Conference team will be there except The Utah Jazz. They must have a problem with the Vegas thing. Still seems weird though that every other team in your division and conference will be there, scouting and playing against eachother, while your in Orlando scouting the Eastern Conference teams that aren't in Vegas.
btw
Is Utah gonna break up their team? Thay have so many great pieces! I hope we get Millsap or Boozer!

2009 Summer League in Vegas:

http://www.nba.com/summerleague2009/teams.html

21 out of 30 teams represented. That's pretty good.

Sigh. I keep waiting for the 'Players' or 'Schedule' links to be updated to current info and not re-direct to the 2008 info. They're not in any hurry to make this available, evidently.

speaking of fun player pics, how bout this'n:

http://www.hoopsvibe.com/IMG/nenad_krstic-arton210...

A much younger Nenad. Taken back in the mid 1960's when he played drums for the Beatles (or was it the Monkees?)

:)

about Ben Howland's posts...

when you read the full list of people who attended (actually not even the full list) along with Howland's staff... jiminy, you gotta conclude that Earl has ONE BIG HOUSE there.

It's a bit strange to me that Russell never mentions this kind of stuff on his twitter page. Nor a single comment about his China trip. Hmmm. Guess he's just not the gabby type.

Russell recently met with his old coach Ben Howland and a BUNCH of other UCLA players at Earl Watson's house. Read at Ben's twitter page:

http://twitter.com/Ben_Howland

You'll have to hit 'more' to get to the first post. Start there and then read up.

@Royce
Yeah, I love that pic. On reflection, it's not what Russ would want though. Too happy and yuppie. Was trying to find one of his gravity defying flights thru the air on the way to a dunk. There are some great ones out there from his UCLA days, but hardly any from his rookie Thunder year. Strange.

@daniel
Wow that's a great picture!!!

was looking around today, trying to find that "killer" pic that Russ could use as a background. But just didn't find anything good enough. Perhaps he could just use this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Y_MjTFQ3m8g/SGXJraevS8I/...

I like both the home and away unis. we don't have the worst logo, that belong to the pacers, i would say we arent even in the bottom half

The logo is perfectly fine, in my opinion. All the nitpicking when it was unveiled was confusing to me, because most logos in the league are awful.

The home unis look great, the roads... not so much.

I think the away jerseys have potential. I really think they should say "OKC" instead of "Oklahoma City". I also dont like when ESPN gives our logo an orange background.

I never liked the away jerseys or in all actuallity I don't even like the colors. Daniel said it best when he said that those other jerseys were more slick and I like those alot better than the ones we got now.

I think Royce said it first that he liked the home jerseys and I do as well, but you gotta admit that we got the worst logo in the league and the worse away jerseys.

I swear to ALL you guys out there that if this draft goes according to plan,(i.e. get maximum value for our pix/trades and end up with a pure shooter and a starting 5), I'll be getting a custom-away jersey with the #1, and in all caps..."PRESTI"!
I'll wear it to every game I can make and when my band tours through the other NBA cities like Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Memphis, New Orleans, ect...I'll represent for The OKC/Thunder, AND how to build a team the right way.(a shot a Mark Cubin and The Hornets GM/owner!!)
Fun facts:
My wife's Birthday is June 20th, Father's Day is June 21st, my birthday is June 23rd. but still...
I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL JUNE 25TH!!
ps draft Rubio and trade down to get Harden or Curry and a big in Free Agency.(Gortat, Birdman, Millsap, Odem?) ...and Ty Lawson at 25!!

pps Congrats Thabo!!

oops, cut off the text. well, just go to twitter.com/russwest44 and you'll see.

on another note... the new background pic that Russ is using on his twitter page is an awesome shot (Air Westbrook!)

s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_background_images/17882795/84969789.jpg

however... that jpg is too small.

Someone should find either
a) a bigger version of that pic or
b) another larger pic that is equally awesome

A big, high resolution image (ala Thabo's tweet page) is what's needed here. Hey, just lookin' out for ya, Russ.

oh and...

congrats Thabo! It's a girl!
:)

[passes out cigar]

anybody like these?

www.operationsports.com/forums/dynasty-hq/284625-creation-franchise-okc-thunder.html

I think these are interesting - probably a bit slicker than what we went with. But I prefer the simpler look of our actual uni's ("retro" is what a lot of people call them).

Don't care much for the logo. `Thor' is a bit obvious, and the colors/design looks a bit cheapy. Still, it's fun to look at other ideas.

I would feel so awkward up there...