On July 18, 2006, Basketball Club of Seattle, led by
Howard Schultz, sold the
Seattle SuperSonics and
Seattle Storm to Professional Basketball Club after failing to reach an agreement with the city of
Seattle over a publicly funded $220 million expansion of
KeyArena. The team relocated to Oklahoma City and began play as the
Oklahoma City Thunder in the
2008–09 basketball season, becoming the third NBA franchise to relocate in the 2000s. The Professional Basketball Club on January 8, 2008, sold the Storm to an ownership group consisting of four Seattle businesswomen. On July 31, 2008, the
Tulsa 66ers, now
Oklahoma City Blue, announced that Professional Basketball Club had purchased the team, marking the third
NBA Development League team to be owned by an NBA team (
Los Angeles Lakers and
San Antonio Spurs). In September 2013, the OKC Thunder added station
KAKC, the 66ers' radio broadcasting partner, to its Thunder Radio Network. In April 2014,
George Kaiser bought
Tom L. Ward's interest in Professional Basketball Club, while Jeffrey Records Jr. sold part of his stake to Bennett while two other changed their stakes. ==Former members==