Corinn Bailey

Doctoral student ✏️,principal 📝, wife 💍, and mom ❤️

[Corinn Bailey @corinn_25]

@libsoftiktok @boswellhs 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Corinn Bailey @corinn_25]

@TravisSkol 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Clemente Almanza @CAlmanza1007]

Mark Daigneault on Jalen Williams and Ajay Mitchell being out: “We have not been an excuse team ever and we’re not going to start now.”

[Corinn Bailey @corinn_25]

@cjbunker888 @OU_Softball This is an absolute ridiculous take

[BrickCenter @BrickCenter_]

Literal Thunder in San Antonio after they lost to OKC 😭

[Ladytron Fan Account @Lady_FanAccount]

"Jam" was the opening track and the first single from the album Dangerous (1991). The video (directed by David Kellogg) is legendary: Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan play real basketball in a gym and MJ teaches MJ to dance. Jordan later confessed that he was impressed by Michael Jackson's tireless energy on the shoot. It was one of the most hyped collaborations of the 90s.

[OKC THUNDER @okcthunder]

Shoutout to Airmen from the 552 Air Control Wing at Tinker AFB (AWACS) watching tonight’s game! Thousands of miles away from home deployed to support global operations. 🇺🇸

[𝐌𝐉𝐉𝐍𝐀𝐄𝐃 @mjjNAEDx]

A 16 years old Michael Jackson performed a notable cover of "Killing Me Softly With His Song"

[Jonathan Moffett @jsugarfootm]

A lot of you may have seen the little snippet of “Human Nature” from the #michaelmovie recreating the Victory Tour….but here’s the real moment from back then. Performing this live with Michael Jackson on the Victory Tour was something truly special!

[Tuttle Tigers Athletics @Tuttle_Ath_Dept]

What a day, what a season, what a year‼️

@Tuttle_Boys win baseball state title #6!

Tigers boys programs win 4️⃣ class 4A state titles this year: Football, Dual Wrestling, Wrestling, Baseball!

THS now owns 8️⃣8️⃣ OSSAA State Titles, all won since 1988‼️

#GreatDayToBeATiger

[Corinn Bailey @corinn_25]

@RoyIsThaTruth Is this real?

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

To my Oklahoma family;
this piece comes straight from the heart.

I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and feel what I felt.
Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of it.

I came to @okcthunder to play basketball. I left carrying 168 lives.

When I was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder, I was thinking about basketball, nothing more.

I didn’t know that before I ever stepped on the court, this place would show me something that would stay with me far longer than any game.

Like any player, my mind was on the game. A new team, a new city, a new opportunity. I expected the usual routine when I landed in Oklahoma City. Physicals, practices, meetings, and a jersey waiting in a locker.

But before any of that, Sam Presti pulled me aside and told me there was somewhere we needed to go.

He didn’t explain much, and I didn’t think to ask. I was focused on the next step in my career.

What I didn’t understand was that, before I could represent the place I was about to play for, I needed to understand it.

So instead of heading to the facility, he took me to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.

I walked in without knowing what I was about to see, and within minutes, everything slowed down.

There are 168 chairs at the memorial, each one representing a life lost on April 19, 1995. They are arranged in quiet rows, each engraved with a name, each standing where a person once stood in that building. Then you notice something that is impossible to process the first time you see it. Some of the chairs are smaller.

They belong to children.

There is no speech that prepares you for that, no headline that captures it. You simply stand there, and the silence carries a kind of weight that is hard to describe but impossible to ignore.

As you walk through the memorial, you pass between two gates marked 9:01 and 9:03. At first, they seem like simple numbers, but then you understand what they hold. One marks the last minute before the attack. The other marks the first minute after. And in between those two gates is 9:02, the moment when everything changed.

That minute does not feel like history when you are standing there. It feels present.

The reflecting pool stretches across what used to be a city street, its surface calm and still. When you look into it, you do not just see water. You see yourself standing in a place where unimaginable loss occurred, and for a moment, everything else in your life becomes quieter.

Nearby stands the Survivor Tree, an American elm that was damaged in the blast but endured. It is not untouched. Its scars are part of what it represents. But it is still standing, and in that, it carries a kind of strength that does not need to be explained.

We did not speak much while we were inside. It did not feel like a place for conversation. Some places ask for words. This one asks for reflection.

When we stepped outside, Sam Presti looked me in the eye and said, “This is what this state has been through.”

Then he said something I will never forget.

“Every time you step on that court, you are not just playing in front of fans. You are playing for a state that carries this with it. Give them everything you have. They deserve that.”

In that moment, basketball felt different.

Not smaller, but clearer.

Because what I had just seen was not only about what was lost. It was about what remained. A state that had experienced unimaginable pain and still chose to come together, to rebuild, and to move forward without losing its humanity.

From that day on, every time I stepped on the court, I carried that with me.

On the nights when I was tired, when I was hurt, when I was dealing with challenges that felt heavy in the moment, I would think about those chairs, about that minute, about the people behind those names. And I was reminded that what I was going through did not compare to what this state had endured.
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[Corinn Bailey @corinn_25]

@SSN_Oklahoma @landry_allen25

[correlation @nosyone4]

“I’m gonna beat Geno’s ass”

I believe her 😭😭😭

[Kareem Copeland @kareemcopeland]

Crazy moment between Geno and Dawn.

[Chris Vosters @CJVosters]

And a tremendous job by Bill Raftery and Grant Hill to LAY OUT (remain silent) and let Ian Eagle make the call. Not easy in such a stunning moment. This is why they are elite analysts.

[AmyLouWho @perseverare1776]

Today’s kids can’t comprehend what we went through as teenagers!!

Mario Brothers…next level😱😱

[Corinn Bailey @corinn_25]

@SportsCenter Am I the only one who saw the travel????? 😩🤷🏻‍♀️