Learning More on Blogging

Dr. Houchenauer, gave some great information on what it takes to blog professionally and efficiently. Even though a lot of his blogs are longer than the norm, he emphasized it's all about the content. If you can write properly and efficiently people will enjoy your blog. He talked about how he has taken a lot of heat sometimes for some of the material he has blogged, but he said don't be scared to talk about what your beliefs are and go with them. I gathered some great information to use for my blog, and how to improve my upcoming post!

Perkins Out

Tough Times

Coming off the All Star break the Thunder have fell on tough times. With getting blown out by the Heat their first game back from the All Star game, and then the Thunder losing a close one to the Clippers on Sunday. I was their to witness the Clippers game first hand, and the Thunder are still trying to get their rhythm back with Russell Westbrook.Being out for almost 2 months Westbrook is still trying to find his shot, but with any great player it just comes with more reps and game time experience.  Reggie struggled with his shot Sunday, and with Perkins getting hurt against the heat the Thunder were already short handed against the Clippers.

Breaking news today Kendrick Perkins had successful groin surgery, and he will be out for the next 6 weeks. Perkins is planned to return to action around the 1st round of the playoffs. A lot of people in Oklahoma seem to hate Perkins and want to get rid of him, but Perkins does a great job defending the bigs in the Western Conference. With his injury now rookie center Steven Adams will start in place of him, and will have to give the Thunder big minutes. Adams has shown some great signs this season, but starting for the best team in the West is filling some pretty big shoes.

The Thunder are on a 6 game home stand right now, and they are 0-2 so far on the stand. With some Eastern Conference opponents coming in the next few games, the Thunder have some great chances to get some great team chemistry with Adams

Next Game: Wednesday Night vs The Cleveland Cavaliers
on Fox Sports Southwest Channel 722HD 

Also all games can be heard on 98.1 WWLS the Sports Animal 


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Recap of All Star Weekend

Another great All Star weekend in New Orleans. It lasted hosted the All Star game in 2008 which lifted the city after the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. The 2014 All Star game didn't disappoint, and all the big stars were out to see the NBA's best put their talents on display.

It all started Friday night with the Rising Stars Game, with the upcoming talent of the NBA on display. Team hill outlasted Team Webber 142-136, and Detroit Pistons Andre Drummond was the MVP of the game. Saturday night was filled with highlights from some of the most athletic players in the association. Rookie Trey Burke and Damian Lillard won the Skills Challenge, by one one-hundrenth of a second. San Antonio Spur Marco Belinelli won the 3-point shootout, with a great shooting display outlasting Bradley Beal. John Wall won the main event of the night the Sprite Dunk Contest. With his jaw-dropping dunk over the Washington Wizards mascot G-Man! Saturday's nights festivities didn't disappoint.

All Star Sunday was a great game, with the NBA's best showing their talents off. Blake Griffin with his monster dunks, and Carmelo Anthony with his record breaking 7 3-pointers. The All Star scoring record was in jeopardy as well with Kevin Durant and Blake Griffin both scoring 38 points. The East with a late rally in the 4th quarter outlasted the West 163-155, and Kyrie Irving was named MVP with 31 points and 14 rebounds.

The All Star weekend was a success and "The Big Easy,"lived up too its name!

All Star Weekend Is Upon Us!!!

All Star Weekend

With the All Star weekend approaching the Thunder have two more games until the break. The Thunder play the Portland Trail Blazers tonight in Portland, and the LA Lakers on Thursday night in LA. 

The Thunder continue to cruise through the regular season with a record of 41-12, which is best in the Western Conference. They have a 4 game lead in the Western Conference standings over the Spurs.

Kevin Durant continues too put up MVP numbers with averaging 31.2 points a game, and being named a Western Conference starter for the all star game. Durant was the  player of the month for the month of January, and was the player of the week in the Western Conference the first week of February. 

All Star weekend will be held in "The Big Easy" New Orleans. The festivities  start Friday night with the celebrity  All Star game, and the Rising Stars game. Saturday night will be the skills challenge, the 3-point contest, and the main even the slam dunk contest, and Sunday the All Star game. The dunk contest has been down the last few years, but this year big name players our entering the contest. Paul George of the Pacers, Damian Lillard of the Trail Blazers, and defending champion Terrance Ross of the Raptors. 

All Star weekend weekend will be great time for the players to relax and get ready for the final push of the regular season.

Tonights game can be seen on Fox Sports Oklahoma

Cable 37, 722

Thursday's game can be seen on TNT for the National audience

Cable 31, 730

All games can also be heard on the radio on 98.1 WWLS The Sports Animal

THUNDER UP!