Today at 5pm CST the Oklahoma City will have the name of their new team officially announced.  Too bad I just announced it early.  In this picture from the NBA Store shows what the new logo will look like.  Like me you are probably saying “Surely this is for the non-existent WNBA team or is there to throw people off of the real logo design.”

Because of the few slip ups that have happened on the NBA.com website and pictures that have been circulating it looks like Thunder is the name and this is the logo that will be used.  It is all the rage to have a new logo to sell more merchandise, so hopefully this one will only be around for a few years and then they can get another one done.  I hope the drafts of other logos that were discarded because of this one are never released because I will probably like those a lot more.

I am hopefull that the jerseys will make up for the bad logo.  I really want to like this logo.  I just can’t.  Anyone else have these same feelings?

Seattle is having a bad week.  First Starbucks announced it was closing down 600 Starbucks coffee shops.  Now their NBA team is gone.  There are things that could make it much worse, but this was not a week they will soon forget.

Clay Bennett and company from Oklahoma City won a ruling today that allowed them to break their lease with the city and move the team to Oklahoma City.  Under the agreement, Seattle will keep the SuperSonics’ name and team colors.  Now the scramble in OKC occurs for a team name, colors and logo.  They need this soon so that they can begin to make the merchandising revenue off of sold shirts, jerseys and all other random things that a logo get’s put on.  They also need this so they can begin to sell season tickets and get Oklahomans hyped up!  For more information on Oklahoma City’s new basketball team you can visit their wikipedia page.

The 600 stores that will be closing are their lowest performing shops.  Approximately 70 percent of the stores being closed have opened since the beginning of fiscal 2006.  The stores are not known yet, but this is not good for the Seattle based company.  For some this is some poetic justice because the Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz  headed the group that owned the SuperSonics from 2001to 2006.

Seattle, it will get better.  You still have tons of Starbucks and someday you will get a team.