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According to the settlement agreement between the City of Seattle and the ownership group of this team, the history of the Seattle SuperSonics prior to 2008 will be shared by the Oklahoma City Thunder and a possible future Seattle team. Please see Section 6 of the Settlement Agreement.

Playoffs

Theres a spot in the page that indicats that The Thunder were in the playoffs it needs to be removed I would do it my self but im not sure. But im sure the Thunder did not make it to the Playoffs please look at this and fix it thank you.--Dcheagle (talk) 02:58, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

i think we should take out most of the history about the seattle sonics with this, lets not tarnish the sonics histroy witht this thunder crap —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.184.126 (talk) 21:46, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As the History is shared by both Oklahoma City and a possible future NBA Team in Settle as listed by the agreement between the Team and the City of Seattle the history will not and should not be removed from this article.--Dcheagle (talk) 21:34, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oklahoma didn't win those titles, the Sonics did. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.16.136.51 (talk) 05:43, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes but the history's of both teams are shared between OKC and a possible new NBA team in Seattle.--SteamIron 07:16, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion on the current sport-related template

As this article seems to be a flash point for the {{Current sport-related}} template as used on sports articles, a pointer to editors here: I've opened discussion on use of the template at Wikipedia talk:Current event templates#Premature deprecation of the template for sports team articles. —C.Fred (talk) 16:42, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And actually, per User talk:Tedder, it looks like the template should be here, and the bot is malfunctioning. —C.Fred (talk) 16:52, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why next to the name of Serge Ibaka Spain flag appears? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.137.187.219 (talk) 14:08, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Because he's Spanish. Even though he was born in the Congo, his nationality is Spanish. More to the point, he's played for Spain's national basketball team, and if a player has gotten a cap for a national team, that national flag will be listed next to him on rosters. —C.Fred (talk) 14:40, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Disposition of SuperSonics IP and memorabilia

Dcheagle reverted cited changes regarding the IP and memorability of the Seattle SuperSonics with a pithy comment. Please assist.

1) Article currently states:
"The owners agreed to leave the SuperSonics name, logo and colors in Seattle for a possible future NBA franchise;"

Citing the July 3, 2008 report,
ESPN: SuperSonics, Seattle reach last-minute settlement

Specifically, the sentence implies IP belonged to the owners, rather than the NBA as clearly stated by the second existing citation:
Seattle Times: Seattle and Oklahoma City will share the Sonics' franchise history
"During negotiations, both parties learned the NBA owns the names and intellectual properties of teams and licenses them to owners."

If it is the NBA's IP, it should be referenced as such, additionally noting that Oklahoma stipulated as consensus may deem appropriate. Also, the existing language is poor and reads as if the IP was a physical good, simply put in box and left in Seattle.

2) And:
"however, the items would remain the property of the Oklahoma City team along with other "assets," including championship banners and trophies."

Which omits the current disposition of the memorabilia cited by both existing references, principally that it remains in Seattle with the Thunder able to borrow it for display and make copies.

Language preferences aside, the disposition of the property is relevant. UW Dawgs (talk) 03:04, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In an ESPN article on NBA expansion in 2024, it reported that "if a team were to return to Seattle, the Thunder would cede the Seattle history back to the SuperSonics". This supports the previous agreement in 2008 of the Thunder leaving the team's assets in Seattle for a future team in the city. MarcusAbacus (talk) 13:48, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Use of non-free logos and uniforms

Each use of non-free content in the article namespace is required to satisfy WP:NFCC because non-free content is considered to be copyright protected for Wikipedia purposes. For non-free images, this means that all 10 of the criterion listed in WP:NFCCP are satisfied and the image is not being used in any of the ways listed in WP:NFC#Unacceptable uses. Because the contextual significance required by WP:NFCC#8 means that it has to be shown the image's presence would significantly increase the reader's uderstanding of the subject matter to the degree that removing the image would be detrimental to that understanding, non-free images are not allowed to be used in galleries or a gallery like manner per WP:NFG, but should be incorporated within the text where they are being discussed. Moreover, it is best if the image itself is the subject of sourced discussion and not simply provided with a generic caption. In addition, non-free image usage should be minimal per WP:NFCC#3a and multiple images should not be used if one can provide the same information.

File:Oklahoma City Thunder.svg is being used in the infobox and it only has valid non-free rationale that use. There is no need to use the image twice in the same article; It can be referred to as "the current logo" using text if need later on, so using it again in a gallery of logos fails NFCC#3a, NFCC#8, WP:NFCC#10c and NFG. File:Oklahoma City Thunder partial logo 2008-current.gif is essentially the same as the logo being used in the infobox: The only difference is that it does not include the word "Thunder". No new information is being provided to the reader that cannot be explained using text, so its usage also fails NFG, NFCC#3a, NFCC#8.

The non-free uniform images also fail NFG as well as WP:NFCC#1 and should not be used. Uniforms such as these are considered replaceable because somebody could take free files like File:Kit body basketball.svg, File:Kit shorts.svg, File:NBA Uniform 2.png or File:NBA Uniform template.png to create a free versions for each non-free version using. Numbers and text ("Oklahoma City", "Player" and "Thunder") are not subject to copyright, so they can be added. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:17, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Semi Protection Page

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(Tydude (talk) 22:15, 16 April 2016 (UTC)).[reply]

Not done: requests for increases to the page protection level should be made at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection.

@Tydude: Several admins have this page watchlisted, so if things were to get out of hand, it would probably be protected pretty quickly. —C.Fred (talk) 22:22, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Semi Protected page

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@Tydude: The page is not protected. Vandalism is still not to the level where protection is warranted. —C.Fred (talk) 15:31, 22 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Retired numbers

The Sonics retired numbers and championship banners do not reside in the rafters of Paycom Center. Megacheez (talk) 02:21, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]