Comments on: Oklahoma City Thunder: Fandom reaches all the way to China http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2012/06/08/oklahoma-city-thunder-fandom-reaches-all-the-way-to-china/ Thoughts from The Oklahoman Sports Columnist Berry Tramel | NewsOK.com Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Top Oklahoma sports stories for Saturday | oksportsreview.com http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2012/06/08/oklahoma-city-thunder-fandom-reaches-all-the-way-to-china/comment-page-1/#comment-127569 Top Oklahoma sports stories for Saturday | oksportsreview.com Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:41:09 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/?p=9469#comment-127569 [...] ready for rematch Thunder fandom reaches China OSU players happy with Holliday hiring OU’s Brooks captures shot put crown Sante Fe’s Harding [...]

]]> By: Todd http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2012/06/08/oklahoma-city-thunder-fandom-reaches-all-the-way-to-china/comment-page-1/#comment-127561 Todd Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:54:46 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/?p=9469#comment-127561 Great story. And great buzz-kill, Randall.

]]> By: Randall http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2012/06/08/oklahoma-city-thunder-fandom-reaches-all-the-way-to-china/comment-page-1/#comment-127560 Randall Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:38:23 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/?p=9469#comment-127560 It’s great that the Communist Party secretary in Haikou could interrupt his business of forcing abortions and sterilizations long enough to enjoy the Thunder’s success.

]]> By: Kyle http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2012/06/08/oklahoma-city-thunder-fandom-reaches-all-the-way-to-china/comment-page-1/#comment-127559 Kyle Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:56:44 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/?p=9469#comment-127559 I was in Bridgetown, Barbados in December 2010 and saw a guy walking around town in a Thunder shirt. I ran over and told the guy I was from Oklahoma City as well. He looked at me with this puzzled look and told me in his heavily Caribbean-accented English that he was from Barbados–he just liked our team. Definitely good publicity for OKC!

]]> By: Lindsay Houts http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2012/06/08/oklahoma-city-thunder-fandom-reaches-all-the-way-to-china/comment-page-1/#comment-127558 Lindsay Houts Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:04:08 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/?p=9469#comment-127558 John, we’d love to see your photos. Shoot me an email: LHouts@opubco.com. Thanks so much!

]]> By: John Wilgues http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2012/06/08/oklahoma-city-thunder-fandom-reaches-all-the-way-to-china/comment-page-1/#comment-127556 John Wilgues Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:37:04 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/?p=9469#comment-127556 My son and I were in Kenya on a church mission effort the past couple of weeks with others from Oklahoma City. We got up at 5:30 a.m. to watch the final minutes of the games through Skype (my wife and daughter arranged the computer so we could see).

We took lots of Thunder t-shirts because we had heard that the Lakers and the Mavericks were popular there (it is on the coast of the Indian Ocean. We have helped give Kenya a does of Thunder fever! I have a great picture of my son on safari in Kenya wearing his Thunder Shirt and one of the members of the Board of the Mombasa Educational Institute, a group working to train church leaders, provide an education to children and a vocational school. Would love to send them to you if your are interested!

We had been telling them about the dunking power of Serge Ibaka – so they decided to imitate him for the picture.

On our way back to the States, my son wore a Thunder shirt and was stopped in London several times by people who are excited about the Thunder. They are fast becoming an international story!

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