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Originally Posted by The Unknown Poster
I used to go to Thunder games at the old arena. They were pretty popular at my highschool where pretty much everyone was into Basketball.
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I think that the Cyclone tried to ride the wave of popularity that the Thunder had going before the league collapsed around it, but they never managed to do it. I remember going to Thunder games with fairly large (for minor league basketball) and enthusiastic crowds, but Cyclone games only had a smattering of people milling around. I guess the Cyclone was also much more small-time... the analogy to baseball would be that the Thunder were AAA, while the Cyclone was in a single-A bus league.
It's amazing in retrospect that the Cyclone lasted as long as it did... the Convention Centre was not a great venue for pro basketball.