NBA Hints At Oklahoma City Team's Name

OKLAHOMA CITY - When the NBA posted the 2008-09 season schedule, they may have revealed a clue to the long-anticipated naming of Oklahoma City's new franchise.

On Wednesday afternoon, users who clicked on Oklahoma City on the schedule page were directed to www.nba.com/thunder. The link pulled up a "page not found" message.

The page http://www.nba.com/schedules/?team=thunder also directed users to the SuperSonics results from last season. Later Wednesday afternoon the page was change to read "Oklahoma City Thunder Schedule."

Team spokesman Dan Mahoney said the link was a glitch on the NBA's site and the team had notified the NBA of the mistake.

Thunder was one of the six names the NBA registered as trademarks for the team earlier this month.

The Oklahoma City Bison, Barons, Wind, Energy, Marshalls and Thunder were registered, according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office database. The names were registered on July 21.

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