It's Official: The Oklahoma City Thunder Have the Lamest Logo in the NBA

The OKC Thunder: What, "Slick Watts and The Happy Head Band" Was Taken?

Man. Who totally called it that the new Oklahoma City basketball team name was going to be something to do with a force of nature? And here's what stinks about this new name: It has to be included in any sort of logo for the team. What I mean is, the great logos of the NBA can stand on their own without mention of the team name: Celtics, Bulls, Heat, Spurs, the old San Francisco Warriors. There are others that I'm forgetting. But how exactly do you graphically represent something as fleeting as thunder without including the name in the logo?

Why couldn't the team just use the old Entertaining Comics logo, swapping out the 'E' for an 'OK'?

Here's the other thing that stinks about this name: Something tells me their 'secret motivating cheer' will be called the 'thunderclap' and their 'super-double-secret motivational device' will look a lot like those ridiculous thunderstix, otherwise known as vertical balloons.

Here's one, last, final, I-promise-to-drop-the-subject, alternate team name: The Oklahoma City Follies. Even though it would be used to its fullest extent by the press, the name harks back to the state's most prestigious humorist, Will Rogers. And the team will be laughable enough. Why not make it official?

SuperSonics RIP

As has been reported, part of the restitution the Sonics' ownership must pay to the city of Seattle is that the SuperSonics name and team colors must stay with the city (possibly in case of future expansion?). So that leads to the inevitable question of what to call the new outfit in Oklahoma City.

No doubt the ownership's already employing an ad agency, public relations firm, brand manager, and local point person to start coming up with names, but here are a few that could work:

Okies
Tumbleweeds
89ers

What will probably happen is one of three things:

1. The team chooses an historically-important team name
2. The team chooses a word in Choctaw that has something to do with the force of nature
3. The team chooses a name like Eagles

I'm hoping they go for Kevin Durant and the Singing Cowboys.