{"id":847751,"date":"2026-09-14T18:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847751\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T18:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:22:11","slug":"usa-today-nominates-okc-thunders-rumble-the-bison-for-best-nba-mascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847751\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Today nominates OKC Thunder\u2019s Rumble the Bison for Best NBA mascot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (KOKH) \u2014 The USA Today Sports Readers&#8217; Choice Awards program has nominated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/readers-choice-awards\/best-nba-mascot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oklahoma City Thunder&#8217;s Rumble the Bison for Best MBA Mascot<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Rumble is one of 20 mascots facing off for the top spot. He&#8217;s competing alongside mascots such as Benny the Bull and the Spurs&#8217; Coyote. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"USA Today nominates OKC Thunder\u2019s Rumble the Bison for Best NBA mascot  (Photo: Oklahoma City Thunder)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/f293bf62-01f5-4b57-9467-3d703b099844-260312_PS_OKCvsBOS0005.jpg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>USA Today nominates OKC Thunder\u2019s Rumble the Bison for Best NBA mascot  (Photo: Oklahoma City Thunder)<\/p>\n<p>Thunder fans 18 and older can now vote once daily through Wednesday, Oct. 21, at <a href=\"https:\/\/okcthunder.com\/VoteRumble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">okcthunder.com\/VoteRumble<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The 10 leading vote recipients in each category will be declared winners. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"USA Today nominates OKC Thunder\u2019s Rumble the Bison for Best NBA mascot  (Photo: Oklahoma City Thunder)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/42e74dd5-ef91-409c-a780-7317e11b07cb-251222_JIMMYDO_OKCVSLAC_0139.jpg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>USA Today nominates OKC Thunder\u2019s Rumble the Bison for Best NBA mascot  (Photo: Oklahoma City Thunder)<\/p>\n<p>Rumble was last named the NBA Mascot of the Year in 2009. <\/p>\n<p>For more local news delivered straight to your inbox, <a href=\"https:\/\/okcfox.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sign up for our daily newsletter by clicking here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (KOKH) \u2014 The USA Today Sports Readers&#8217; Choice Awards program has nominated the Oklahoma City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-847751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}