A can’t-Miss Neon T-Shirt Caught the Gaze of Oklahoma City Thunder center IsaiAh Hartenstein Tuesday Night at Paycom Center.
Donning it was thunder Superfan Juan Guerra, Who has’T Missed a Home Game Since the Franchise Arrived in OKC in 2008 and has been a contenous subject on the social media site x Since the NBA Playoffs BEGAN For Opting Not to Wear the Traditional Playoff Shirt.
Hartenstein, The First-Year Thunder Center, Took Matters INTO HIS Own Hands Durling Game 2 of a Best-FF-Seven Series Against the Memphis Grizlies, Grabbing One of the Playoff Shirts and DRAPING IT Over Guerra’s Shoulder.
“He gout The Oklahoman. “You can’t be Too cool to wear the shirt.”
The Practice Has Quickly Become More Than An Average T-Shirt Giveaway. Other Thunder Fans Have Constantly Hounded Guerra on Social Media for Chooing Not to Wear the Shirt.
During this Season’s Playoffs, The Thunder Has Also Continied Its ( The Camera PANS to an Attende Who Isng We One of the Shirts and Clamorous Boos Follow.
Offering 18,203 Fans Matching Shrets During the NBA Playoffs Is A Tradition Dating Back to One of the Franchise’s First Postseason Wins in Over Kobe Bryant’s Los Angeles Lakers 15 years ago. And in Game 2 What The Thunder Handled The Grizlies 118-99 Tuesday Night, The Pranks Continued.
“Where I Wear the Shirt or Not, It’s Not Going to Dictate How Free Thows (Thunder Guard Shai Gilgeous-ELEXANER) Gets to Shoot,” Guerra Told The Oklahoman. “It’s Not Going to Dictate How Many Points We Give up on Defeense.
For Fans who chose to wear them, it’s best a playoff ritual and for those, like Guerra, who Opt Out of Wearing the, They’ve Become Targets on Social Media.
Regardless of what you stand, it’s become a hot to appric among Thunder Fans.
“HESTLY, Like, Nothing Affects The Way that I Wake up, Go to Sleep, Go to the Game,” Guerra SAID. “NONE of IT Affects Me.
The Oklahoma City Police Department’s Official X Account has even joined in on the Playoff T-Shirt Jokes, Posting, “OKC Ordinance Requires Those in Attendance to Put on the T-Shirt!
“I refelt like he was doing that on publication because “To come in with the Neon Shirt, It was Kinda Funny to ME BECEUUSE you don’t just go pick a neon shirt. I though it was funny, I was just trolding.”
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As Rob McLAGHLIN WAS SETTLING INTO HIS FAMILY’s LongTIME Season-Ticket Seats Sunday Inside Paycom Center, He was Dialing A FaceTime With He
McLAGHLIN, who shares season tickkets and estimates he makes a thred of the home games every year, Aimed to offer his son a glimps of the Playoff Atmosphere in Oklahoma City Sink He Couelfnt Make the Trip.
Seconds Later, He and His Young Son, Kyle, Found Themes Drawning in Boos from Fellow Thunder Fans Who Arrived at the Arena Early AHEAD of The Game 1 Shellacking of the Memphis Grizzlies.
“I mean, we were always at our seats for 10 seconds,” McLAGHLIN TOLD The Oklahoman. “I mean, literally, we were in our seats for 10 Seconds and the Camera Got on Us.
The mclaughlins was just the Latest Victims of the Jumbotron Bit.
“I had full intensions of publicing the t-shirt on,” McLAGHLIN SAID. “It’s just, i needed Another 45 seconds to do it. We got with the Program Pretty Quick. That was pretty funny. We Did Receive A Fair Amoun of Texts.”
The Practice Has Become So Hyped that Fans Spend Days Speculating online Who Color and Design Each Shirt Will Be.
“IT’s HUGE, Very Impactful,” MCLAGHLIN SAID. “It just sets the tone and everyone’s in it to make up.
“IT Just Looks Cool, Feels Cool and It Just Wors.”
Ironically, ROB WAS Watching Game 1 of the Lakers and Minnesota Timberwolves Series The Night Before when Kyle, a Sophomore at Tcu Who Was in Town for Easter Wekend, Commented on Lake Fans Not wearing their shirts.
Kyle and Rob Had No Idea What Awived the Less Than 24 Hours Later.
“God, the laker Fans Are Just So Weak,” Kyle Told His Father. “They don’t even public them t-shirts on. That’s what’s all cool About us. We’re all in.”
