“I can say without reservation that Oklahoma City is now at the top of the list.”
David Stern
“We played immensely better. Oklahoma City is one of the top three or four teams in the league. We didn't play 100 percent better. We played 500 percent better.”
Richard Davis
“I would love to play here. I would love to stay here and play in Oklahoma City next year. I think our guys are at home here. I think the fans have been unbelievable. Out of our 12 home wins, I think the fans out there have won half of them. So, I would prefer to stay here next year.”
Byron Scott
“We feel very strongly about having it here. We had it years ago in Tulsa when Oklahoma City didn't have the hotel capacity, but this is now our sixth-straight year here.”
John Long
“We did an exhaustive tour of all the possible facilities in the Oklahoma City region, and the Sawyer Center is a fantastic facility that exceeds all of the criteria that we had.”
“Yes, ... That thing in Oklahoma City, I guess.”
Timothy McVeigh
“We're going to take our resources and spread them across a wider reach. We'll repay the citizens of Oklahoma City and provide them with their best NBA experience, because this might be their only one. But we'll try not to lose step with what we were doing in the New Orleans marketplace. We don't want people (in New Orleans) to ask, 'Where were you?' These are our fans. And our fellow citizens.”
Paul Mott
