Thunder Games Impact Oklahoma City

Fan furniture and food in the game, the association will keep the stadium and seats very clean and attract fans watching the game. Chesapeake Arena has many new food chains and team merchants. In other words, more people will come back for each game. They leave the arena and have a good time. "Lost Thunder basketball games will have an economic impact of $ 60 million in cities," officials said during NBA's lockout.

Oklahoma City Thunder is an American professional basketball team based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Thunder joined the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the alliance's west-northwestern part. The team played home games at Chesapeake Energy Arena. Thunder's NBA G Alliance is owned by Oklahoma City Blue. Thunder is the only team in Oklahoma's major professional North American sports league. Oklahoma City received New Orleans Hornets (current team) after two seasons of damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans

The creation of Oklahoma City Thunder has had a major economic impact on regional and state economies. According to the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce and Industry, all Thunder home games are 41 home games per season, investing 1.3 million dollars in the regional economy equivalent to about 53.3 million dollars per season. Jordan Wiley, Leon 's general manager at Brookside, says: "The sales of Thunder games has dramatically increased.The Leons of Bruce Side are located in Tulsa and the Thunder Team shows that they are in the city as well as the host city.This is near Tulsa The city of Jenks located is called home by the Elm Street Bar (Fox 23, p.9 - 9)

The overall goal of this survey was to judge whether the professional sports franchise affected the regional economy. Specifically, the focus of the research is Oklahoma City, lightning in the metropolitan area of ​​the professional basketball team in the metropolitan area. As a member of the American Basketball Association (NBA), Thunder is the only four major sports team in Oklahoma City: basketball, baseball, soccer, hockey. Oklahoma City was chosen as the subject of the case study. Because Thunder's economic impact is because it is the only franchise in this city. The data analyzed throughout this paper covers the period from 2001 to 2015 and provides the same period of time after the organization has arrived in 2008 and 7 years after arrival. The variables considered in this study show the economic situation of Oklahoma City from 2001 to 2015.