When will the store open?
Here’s what I want to know about the NBA team. When will its store open?
Every NBA team, I assume, has its own store to sell team merchandise. The Hornets had one on the street level of the Oklahoma Tower, 210 Park Avenue, where their corporate offices were located and where, ironically, Clay Bennett’s Dorchester Capital is headquartered.
If the Not-the-Sonics headquarter temporarily in Oklahoma Tower — they eventually will move to the Ford Center — they could be street level on Park Avenue, too. I guess they also could put a permanent team store in the Ford Center, but the current space seems too small, and with the renovation of the Ford Center upcoming, that will be a mess of some degree.
Wherever the store is located, I know three things. 1. It won’t open until after the announcement of the team name; right now, there is nothing much to sell. 2. It WILL open not long after the announcement of the team name, because somewhere in Korea or China or some such place, textile workers have a scoop that would be big news in Oklahoma City. 3. The day or two after the announcement, the store will look like Toys R Us on Christmas Eve.
-------------Berry Tramel can be heard Monday through Friday from 4:40-5:20 p.m. on The Sports Animal radio network, including AM-640 and FM-98.1. You can e-mail him here and follow him on Twitter @BerryTramel. Visit Berry's website here.
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So are you telling me that the All American team of Clay and his buds( tax payer funded and many tax breaks included) will not have made in America clothing? What a shameful state of affairs! Don’t tell me that made in America is too costly. Made in China cost the same it just that the big guys can’t make as much money from them. Case in point Jorden Nike’s, $4 to make $130 or more to buy. Cost to make in this Country about $40. or less, probably.
Berry,
I have an idea for the team name and I want you to be my spokesman (only if you like it). The Oklahoma City Slickers. The possibilities are limitless concerning an actual mascot and the name rolls off of the tongue. What do you think?
Mark Boyd
Enid, OK
Ten Years After!
Hi, Berry, remember me? Here’s one of your columns about me and OSU, first published on wednesday, November 11, 1998 on The Daily Oklahoman, now translated in romanian and posted on my website!
Wish you good luck!
Sorin Lucian Ionescu
Executive Director
TV NEPTUN Romania
Having a HELL of a sale at the dead-Sonics’ store in Seattle. Maybe some NBA endorsed Valium will help us all!