Katie Blum Dempsey

@DatelineNBC DOA Team. @NYCSooners President. OU, Thunder, & Yankee fan. Opinions are mine. Retweets aren't endorsements.

[Mayor David Holt @davidfholt]

@Novig Nice try. Here’s the actual crowd.

[Katie Blum Dempsey @MKBlum]

OG

[Katie Blum Dempsey @MKBlum]

I despise this guy but we’re better than that NYC

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Somebody threw an egg at Wemby outside the team hotel in NYC

[Brandon Rahbar @BrandonRahbar]

Refs call a flagrant on Wemby or the Spurs challenge: impossible.

[Katie Blum Dempsey @MKBlum]

@barstoolsports What about an elbow to the teeth?!

[Katie Blum Dempsey @MKBlum]

Football apparently

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

Dear Basketball fans, this is a Safe Space.

Was this a Flop or did Carter Bryant rock SGA?

[Katie Blum Dempsey @MKBlum]

The @NBA needs to do something about this

[BrickCenter @BrickCenter_]

We have a new angle of Wemby calling a hit on Jared McCain in Game 5

Wemby: “Hard fouls”

[Katie Blum Dempsey @MKBlum]

Now we know why they are pulling football moves on the court

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

The San Antonio Spurs hit the Dak Prescott dance pregame and proceeded to go out there and lose by double digits

[Katie Blum Dempsey @MKBlum]

Chuck!

[NBA on ESPN @ESPNNBA]

Chuck has had enough with this Wemby narrative 😆

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

The Spurs are the second team this century to start a playoff game on a 15-0 run or better and lose 😬

They join the 2017 Wizards, who blew a 16-0 lead in the East semis at Boston.

[Brandon Rahbar @BrandonRahbar]

Incredibly impressive OKC win.

No JDub.
Spurs fully healthy.
Hostile road environment.
Ajay Mitchell left with an injury.
Down 15-0 to start the game.

Outscored the Spurs every quarter after the opening frame.

[Katie Blum Dempsey @MKBlum]

Watching the game at a bar is nice bc I can’t hear Reggie Miller

[ESPN @espn]

THAT'S TWO FOR 2 ⚡

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the back-to-back Most Valuable Player in the NBA 🏆

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

BACK-TO-BACK CONFERENCE FINALS FOR OKC 🔥

The Thunder have one more series between them and a return to the NBA Finals!

[Katie Blum Dempsey @MKBlum]

@AmazonHelp It’s not user friendly. I went to the nba page and couldn’t find it. Thanks for responding

[Katie Blum Dempsey @MKBlum]

@PrimeVideo hi! If you’re gonna get into the sport thing we’re gonna need you to keep the game up for at least a day. 10:30pm NBa game isn’t possible for some of us to watch and now no where to be found besides a lame 3 min recap

[Katie Blum Dempsey @MKBlum]

@TMathSports Me me me!

[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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[Katie Blum Dempsey @MKBlum]

Boom
soon

[Oklahoma Women's Gym @OU_WGymnastics]

BRINGING HOME NO. 8 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆