Quote Originally Posted by OSUFan View Post
We wouldn't have an NBA team if it wasn't for Mayor Cornett. That is not saying he did it on his own or was the only factor but his work to get the Thunder here shouldn't be marginalized in any way.
Maybe it's minor, but I feel like the insistence (presumably by Cornett, but I don't know) on a temporary name change to "New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets" played a role in getting everyone used to the idea that we could have an NBA team in OKC, so that future mentions of NBA and Oklahoma City in the same sentence no longer seemed that preposterous...