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KDisNotNice
02-12-2009, 10:27 PM
Kevin Durant and Jeff Green (plus 7 others) will be playing for the sophomores. Russell Westbrook (and 8 others) will be playing for the rookies. That would be cool if all 3 are on the court at the same time.

The game will be broadcast on TNT on Friday starting at 8pm Central.

Read more about it here:

http://www.nba.com/2009/allstar2009/01/16/rookie.challenge/index.html
RicanThunder
02-12-2009, 10:30 PM
Sophs - 148
Rooks - 132

KD - MVP with 43 points. (Green and Westbrook both score over 20, with Westbrook having 3 highlight reel dunks).
Choda Boy
02-12-2009, 10:42 PM
Sophs 151
Rooks 145

Is Oden playing for the Rooks?
Westbrook0
02-12-2009, 10:45 PM
Sophs - 144
Rooks - 126

Durant MVP with 34 points
RicanThunder
02-12-2009, 10:58 PM
Sophs 151
Rooks 145

Is Oden playing for the Rooks?

I'm pretty sure he is. It would be strange for him to win MVP playing for the Sophs, and then have a monster second half of the season, and end up winning Rookie of the Year. Of course, him winning any of these two awards are pretty slim to none, but still the logistics of it all wouldn't make sense.
StormFan93
02-12-2009, 11:02 PM
Sophomores- 153
Rookies- 135
KDisNotNice
02-13-2009, 12:23 AM
Sophs 151
Rooks 145

Is Oden playing for the Rooks?

Yes, see the link above for the complete rosters for both teams.
KDisNotNice
02-13-2009, 01:42 PM
The Sophomores are 6 1/2 point favorites tonight.

Here are some pictures of our Thunder players at All Star weekend activities.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/okc/photos
Thunderstruck83
02-13-2009, 01:57 PM
Sophs - 131
Rooks - 118

According to the NBA.com preview, Durant has been playing some center for us, anyone remember that?
RicanThunder
02-13-2009, 06:17 PM
I can imagine a situation or two where KD, Westbrook, Green, Watson, and Weaver/Atkins/Mason have all been on the floor together and that would make Durant or Green the de facto center.
RicanThunder
02-13-2009, 06:18 PM
All the greats play center at least once in their lives....Magic, MJ, Lebron, Durant
Choda Boy
02-13-2009, 08:12 PM
Sophs 151
Rooks 145

Is Oden playing for the Rooks?

Now this is some act of prescience! Oden ain't playin' for nobody!

Revised Forecast:
Sophs 151
Rooks 135
HotRocNRol
02-13-2009, 08:51 PM
what the heck is the over/under on this game...kzillion?
Rod4soonrs
02-13-2009, 09:15 PM
anyone recording the game? If so, any chance of getting a dvd copy?
HotRocNRol
02-13-2009, 10:11 PM
Half time...our Trio is showing why the THUNDER will be a team to be reckoned with from here on...KD & "double duece" leading scorers on the sophmores; smiling Russell is flipping, slamming and dishing his way to ROY honors!!!
Go THUNDER!!!
AD
02-13-2009, 10:18 PM
Half time...our Trio is showing why the THUNDER will be a team to be reckoned with from here on...KD & "double duece" leading scorers on the sophmores; smiling Russell is flipping, slamming and dishing his way to ROY honors!!!
Go THUNDER!!!

MAN!!!! How proud of these guys can I get... they are showing why we love them here in Loud City... We are getting all sorts of air time... AWESOME
RicanThunder
02-13-2009, 10:40 PM
Durant just brought the Sophs back from a 12 point deficit all by himself in about 1 minute. 2 three pointers, a long 2, and an assist.....all in the span of less than a minute.
AD
02-13-2009, 10:48 PM
STUD... simply a STUD
RicanThunder
02-13-2009, 11:15 PM
Complete side note: I just saw a commercial for a new shoe company called Protege, in which they use Al Harrington as their spokes-player. The shoes will be sold exclusively at..........KMart. Thank you Shaq and Stephon for forever ruining the shoe game.
HotRocNRol
02-13-2009, 11:15 PM
Cannot wipe the grin off my face from KD's performance. Think he impressed a few folks that had never heard of OKC Thunder?

ps...Sam, Puhleeeze sign this Stud to an extension & HURRY!!!
Plainsman
02-14-2009, 09:04 AM
anyone recording the game? If so, any chance of getting a dvd copy?

I have it recorded on my Cox DVR, but its in Hi-Def and if I try to transfer it to dvd-r it will have bars on the top and bottom and the picture aspect will be out of whack. This Cox equipment sucks and its just another reason I'm very close to going Dish, they have much better DVR's. Cox is still using the same Atlantic Scientific DVR they issued 5 years ago.

But you might watch NBA TV over the next few days, they might repeat it there. I see the skills challenge and the All Star game will repeat Monday.
Plainsman
02-14-2009, 09:05 AM
I am guilty of taking KD for granted too much, he really is a great player , and he's only 20.

I'm getting scared now about resigning him. Everytime Kenny The Jet talked about never seeing him play in OKC , it made me cringe.
DwightSchrute
02-14-2009, 11:08 AM
I am guilty of taking KD for granted too much, he really is a great player , and he's only 20.

I'm getting scared now about resigning him. Everytime Kenny The Jet talked about never seeing him play in OKC , it made me cringe.
Don't worry about it. Winning cures all. When this team starts winning a lot of games in the next couple of years, they'll get plenty of nationally televised games.
okcnba
02-14-2009, 07:42 PM
I am guilty of taking KD for granted too much, he really is a great player , and he's only 20.

I'm getting scared now about resigning him. Everytime Kenny The Jet talked about never seeing him play in OKC , it made me cringe.

This isn't his rookie season, he played a year in seattle... Kenny didn't watch him there apparently either. It all comes down to good teams get watched more than bad teams.
Thunderstruck83
02-16-2009, 01:31 PM
Don't worry about it. Winning cures all. When this team starts winning a lot of games in the next couple of years, they'll get plenty of nationally televised games.

My thoughts exactly...it doesn't matter how small the market is, when the team starts winning at a playoff rate, the national talking heads will know about all of our young guys. This weekend was a good first step towards that.
Choda Boy
02-16-2009, 04:35 PM
Yeah, we all know who Paul Millsap is and he is the backup for Boozer in a small market...but they win and have a great coach. NYK has sucked, therefore they don't get televised and I may know David Lee, but someone who doesn't watch a lot of basketball prolly doesn't know squat about that lineup.
Betts
02-16-2009, 05:32 PM
Don't worry about it. Winning cures all. When this team starts winning a lot of games in the next couple of years, they'll get plenty of nationally televised games.

Actually, I bet we'll get significantly more games next year, although it wouldn't have to be too many to be significant, simply because we have Kevin Durant on the team. And, if the team does well, they frequently add on games as the season goes on.