Western Conference Campions

The energy going into the Chesapeake Energy Arena on June 6, 2012 was more different than any other time I had entered the arena. Ever.
We were loud. Louder than ever before.
If you think I'm being a tad bit melodramatic, you're wrong.
We were ready to win our first trophy. Ready to hang our first banner. Ready to make it to the finals.
Honestly, I knew. I could feel it in my gut that we were going to win this one. I had the same feeling with one of the lakers games we barely won.

Slowly, I could feel the energy, yelling, screaming and banging slowly winding down as we slipped away from the Spurs. At one point, with a 15? point lag. Alot of people said they thought we had lost our sixth game and were on our way to game seven with the Spurs. I wasn't worried. I had the same feeling and I knew we were going to pull ourselves together. Scott Brooks is one of the best coaches. I don't know what he says to them to get them so amped up, but he must have said something good on June 6 during halftime in the locker room.

Out came the Thunder. The crowd was loud again and we all gained back our faith. We rose together in hopes that our team would be the comeback kids of the night. In all honesty, I think it's a mixture of the crowd and the amazing skills of the players that took the Spurs down. We rely on each other. If the crowd isn't loud, the players lose their energy. If the players lose their energy the crowd dies down. I have never heard a crowd so loud as the final 5 minutes of this series. It's amazing how our team really IS one. Sure, Durant throws down alot of the points, but without the assists and the beard where would we be? It really stinks for certain teams that only have one great player. All of our players help each other get to where we need to be and that's whats so different about the Oklahoma City Thunder.

We made history on June 6. We won our first trophy. We won our first Western Conference Champions banner to hang in the Chesapeake Arena. We are going to our first finals series. More importantly, we have grown together. We watched our team mature over several years. I've noticed the NBA is all anyone can talk about. We are excited to take on Miami Heat as a state. LeBron, watch out. There's a THUNDERSTORM brewing and there are several guys looking to take on you and your heat.