Thursday Bolts .9.24.09

The first single game ticket pre-sales start today at 10 a.m. with Ticketmaster. The password for the pre-sale is

FORDCENTER or NBA. You can also pick up single game tickets at every Homeland in the metro area starting this Saturday. GOGOGOGOGOGOGO!

D.J. White and James Harden helped out at the Great State Fair of… Okla-homa! yesterday.

SI’s Britt Robson on Tyson Chandler: “Now that Chandler, according to at least one doctor, is certifiably prone to another toe injury, was Charlotte unwise to pick him up? How can Chandler be too risky to warrant trading Wilcox, Smith and Hardin in February but, after another ankle aggravation in March, is suddenly able to fetch Okafor, Charlotte’s younger franchise cornerstone? The answer is that, along with the long-term payroll savings, the Bobcats obtained a player who has a larger upside and is more compatible with their personnel. And Charlotte had the guts to roll the dice on Chandler — imagine that, a group with Michael Jordan in it making a gamble — who had operations on both his ankle and his toe in May and then rested during a summer that didn’t even include pickup games.”

John Lucas III, who spent last year’s training camp in Oklahoma City, will be spending this year’s in Miami: “Lucas attended camp last year with the Oklahoma City Thunder, not seeing action before being released three games into the regular season. He recently was selected by the Maine Red Claws in the D-League expansion draft.”

Houston unveiled its first ever alternate uniform yesterday (kind of has a nice Vernon Maxwell, Otis Thorpe throwback feel). YOUR MOVE OKLAHOMA CITY UNIFORM PEOPLE.

If you’re looking for the Thundergirls official website, don’t try Thundergirls.com. It’s safe for work and there’s nothing crude about it. But… yeah.

This says it all: KevinDurant35: “Goin to relieve some stress at the gym…see yall lata.”

Just 34 days until the season starts and five until training camp begins. It’s coming people. But with that said, there’s nothing going on in the Thunder news world. I had to resort to linking to some female wrestling league. Hopefully there’s more tomorrow.