With a city's backing, Thunder roll
— -- OKLAHOMA CITY -- Six blocks north of the arena where the Oklahoma City Thunder play and 12 hours before they started another promising playoff run, there was silence for 168 seconds on Saturday morning.
For the 19th time, the survivors and families of the 1995 bombing at the Murrah Federal Building marked the grim anniversary with a quiet second for each person killed. The most somber day on the calendar in Oklahoma coincided with the start of Oklahomans' beloved Thunder's postseason, an occasion that has quickly rated as a holiday.
The bombing and the Thunder: the two things that have come to be Oklahoma City as much as the churches and the buildings with the names of oil and gas companies on the sides. It might not seem logical or really germane when discussing the NBA playoffs, but they are intertwined, as many residents can explain and routinely show.
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