artie_fufkin wrote:

We don't have an NBA thread (a good thing), so I'll post this here. I was watching the crawl on the Comcast Bay Area feed last night and one of the listings was LAL vs. OKC. I presume LAL is an abbreviation for the Lakers, but when did the O.K. Corral get a bounceyball team?

My goodness, even I know this one and I don't follow the sport.

If I remember correctly, New Orleans moved there temporarily following Hurricane Katrina.  Once New Orleans moved back home, Seattle permanently moved the Super Sonics to Oklahoma City.  They've been there for close to, if not the entirety of Kevin Durant's NBA career.

artie_fufkin wrote:

"Seattle permanently moved the Super Sonics to Oklahoma City."

The Oklahoma Super Sonics?!? That's almost as weird as the Utah Jazz. Shouldn't they be the Oklahoma Truck Stops?

They are called the Thunder.  I had to look it up because I was thinking Storm.  I also had to look up what team relocated there for a short time from New Orleans.  I didnt know the Hornets moved out of NC.

Yeah except New Orleans kept the Honert name.  I dont know how I came up with strom.  I assume I got confused with a sport I follow about as much as the NBA, the WNBA, Seattle Storm. 

Another wierd NBA name is the LA Lakers.  I believe they were in Minnasota at one point?

APIAD wrote:

Yeah except New Orleans kept the Honert name.  I dont know how I came up with strom.  I assume I got confused with a sport I follow about as much as the NBA, the WNBA, Seattle Storm. 

Another wierd NBA name is the LA Lakers.  I believe they were in Minnasota at one point?

Correct.  Years ago.  If you want to go back that far, the Atlanta Hawks were originally in St. Louis.

"If you want to go back that far, the Atlanta Hawks were originally in St. Louis."

The Hawks were originally based in Illinois and called the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and moved to Milwaukee before they got to St. Louis, but no matter.
The original Boston Celtics franchise is now the Los Angeles Clippers. Back in the '70s, the owners of the Buffalo Braves and the Celtics traded entire franchises, and then the Braves moved to San Diego, taking the original Celtics' charter with them.
There's been a lot of shuffling over the years. The Houston Rockets were originally in San Diego. The Sacramento Kings were originally the Rochester Royals, then the Cincinnati Royals, with a stop in Kansas City and then a couple seasons as the Kansas City-Omaha Kings playing a split home schedule in both cities in between. 
A lot of people think Wilt Chamberlain started his career with the Philadelphia 76ers, but he played for the Philadelphia Warriors and then he moved west when the franchise moved to San Francisco (now Golden State). Wilt was traded to the Sixers, who were originaly the Syracuse Nationals, and then to the Lakers (who are AP states were originally in Minneapolis).
The Pistons are originally from Fort Wayne, and the Chicago Zephyrs have morphed into the Baltimore Bullets, the Washington Bullets and the Washington Wizards.
And don't get me started on the ABA. Half the teams moved every year. I think the Denver Nuggets were originally called the Kansas City Larks.

forsberg_us wrote:

We had spaghetti at our house 3 times last week.

Do you guys mix the sauce and the meat or serve them seperate?