The Daily Thunder Podcast

We are incredibly excited about our guest this week, Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt. Not only is he one of the greatest leaders in our city's history, but he’s also one of the most passionate and knowledgeable Thunder fans you’ll ever meet.  

Our host Brandon Rahbar sat down with Mayor Holt to chat about this year’s OKC Thunder, the relationship between team and city, the global impact of having an NBA team in Oklahoma, the Bombing Memorial city edition Thunder jerseys, and his thoughts on the passing of two NBA icons in David Stern and Kobe Bryant. 

We’ve also put together a stirring Oklahoma City-themed tribute to Kobe Bryant, with favorite Mamba memories from OKC fans, along with some of the legendary Laker’s thoughts throughout the years of this Thunder team. 

TWITTER: Mayor David Holt, Brandon, Rachael

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DailyThunder.com officially launched January 20, 2009, so on this episode, we're celebrating 11 years of bringing the Thunder... daily. Our featured guest is Daily Thunder contributing writer, Dom. That’s it. Dom. He’s the one name diva of the DT family like Prince or Lizzo. We recap the Thunder's Monday night win over the Rockets and discuss the rise of Steven Adams.

Then, we will open the Daily Thunder mailbag (which is mostly full of trade deadline questions) and we celebrate Daily Thunder’s anniversary with a 2009 Thunder trivia showdown between DT publisher John Napier and senior writer Olivia Panchal.

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We're 41 games into the season, so this week we're handing out Thunder Mid-Season Awards with host and producer of The Athletic's Down to Dunk podcast and the OKC Dream Team, Andrew Schlecht. We discuss our picks for Best Offensive Player, Best Defensive Player, Player Who Has Most Increased Their Trade Value, Best Steven Adams quote, Best Play and many more. 

We also share who Thunder fans told us their pick is for mid-season MVP.

Twitter: Brandon, Andrew, Rachael

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Thursday was a historic night in OKC as Russell Westbrook returned to Chesapeake Arena for the first time not wearing a Thunder uniform. In this episode, Brandon Rahbar gives his takeaways from the big night and we'll share what Thunder fans told us about what they love about Russ. 

Brandon also chats with Daily Thunder writer David Brandon about Russ' return, his contributions on and off the court, and the surprising performance of the new squad. 

Then Brandon and producer Rachael Jamison open up the mailbag to answer your questions about trade deadline strategies, player performance and Brandon's friendly rivalry with DT's Olivia Panchal. 

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Brandon Rahbar welcomes Jesse James Larch of Garbage into Gold: A Sixers Podcast to talk 76ers/Thunder ahead of their matchup:

Then Brandon and producer Rachael Jamison run down their top-19(ish) moments of 2019, before being joined by Spenser Davis (Daily Thunder, Dallas Morning News) to talk about the best prospects of the 2020 NBA Draft, whether the Thunder will even pick in the lottery, and whether/how Oklahoma City could build around Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

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