Q 01/05

What name did the Thunder's home arena adopt when its naming rights were sold in 2021?

A) Paycom Center

B) Ford Center

C) Chesapeake Energy Arena

D) BOK Center

Answer · why

A) Paycom Center

Paycom Center replaced Chesapeake Energy Arena after the energy company, fresh out of bankruptcy, cancelled its naming deal in April 2021. Paycom then...

Q 02/05

Despite sitting next door to Texas, the Thunder play in which NBA division?

A) Southwest

B) Pacific

C) Northwest

D) Central

Answer · why

C) Northwest

Northwest: the NBA refused to realign when the team left Seattle, so Oklahoma City stayed grouped with Portland and Utah rather than joining its Texas...

Q 03/05

Which coach led the Seattle SuperSonics to their only NBA championship, in 1979?

A) Bill Russell

B) George Karl

C) Lenny Wilkens

D) Nate McMillan

Answer · why

C) Lenny Wilkens

Lenny Wilkens took over a 5–17 team early in 1977–78 and reached the Finals that spring. A year later his Sonics beat the same Washington Bullets in f...

Q 04/05

Which Oklahoma City businessman led the group that bought the SuperSonics in 2006?

A) Harold Hamm

B) Clay Bennett

C) Aubrey McClendon

D) David Holt

Answer · why

B) Clay Bennett

Clay Bennett's group pledged a good-faith effort to keep the team in Seattle; when no arena deal came by his October 2007 deadline, he told the NBA he...

Q 05/05

Which former CEO sold the SuperSonics to the Oklahoma City group in 2006?

A) Bill Gates of Microsoft

B) Paul Allen of Microsoft

C) Jeff Bezos of Amazon

D) Howard Schultz of Starbucks

Answer · why

D) Howard Schultz of Starbucks

Howard Schultz of Starbucks sued in 2008 to undo the sale, claiming the buyers never meant to stay in Seattle, then dropped the case that August as un...