Home venues in Ticket Timeline's game data
The Thunder franchise dates back to 1967, when the Seattle SuperSonics joined the NBA as an expansion team and became the Pacific Northwest's first major professional sports franchise. The SuperSonics played 41 seasons in Seattle, winning the franchise's only NBA title in 1979, mostly at what opened in 1962 as Seattle Center Coliseum—renovated and renamed KeyArena in 1995 after a season away at the Tacoma Dome during construction. In 2006, Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz sold the SuperSonics to an Oklahoma City-based ownership group led by Clay Bennett; after Bennett's group failed to secure a new arena deal in Seattle, a 2008 court settlement cleared the way for relocation. The team moved to Oklahoma City for the 2008–09 season and was renamed the Thunder—a move that remains a sore subject for Seattle sports fans to this day. The Thunder's new home, Oklahoma City's downtown arena, had opened in 2002 as the Ford Center and was renamed Oklahoma City Arena for one season in 2010–11, then Chesapeake Energy Arena from 2011 to 2021, and finally Paycom Center in July 2021—all the same building the Thunder have played in since arriving in 2008.
- Former home: Seattle Center Coliseum / KeyArena (1967–2008, with a 1994–95 season at the Tacoma Dome) — the SuperSonics era, before the 2008 relocation
- Current home: Paycom Center (2008–present) — opened 2002 as the Ford Center, later Oklahoma City Arena and Chesapeake Energy Arena, renamed Paycom Center in 2021
Ticket Timeline's game data covers Thunder home games at the Oklahoma City arena from the franchise's 2008 relocation forward, with gaps where source rows do not connect continuously; the franchise's full history dates back to 1967 in Seattle as the SuperSonics.
If your ticket says Ford Center, Oklahoma City Arena, or Chesapeake Energy Arena, that's the same downtown Oklahoma City building under an earlier name—not a different arena from today's Paycom Center.
Oklahoma City Thunder play home games at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, OK, USA. Dates for those nights are anchored in Oklahoma City time. The building list above is what Ticket Timeline uses when an older ticket names an earlier name of the same building.