On Tuesday, the Thunder issued the following release to the local media. It announced that Thunder fans were going to pick the final Thunder Girl through online voting. For some bizarre reason, we were not on the press release distribution list:
The Oklahoma City Thunder hosted final auditions for the 2009-10 Thunder Girls Tuesday night at Toby Keith's "I Love This Bar and Grill" in Bricktown. With a process that started with more than 100 women last Saturday, 40 ladies competed for a place on the team, and judges narrowed the selection down to 18 talented dancers. The final member will be chosen by Thunder fans in an online vote at thunder.nba.com.
Two Thunder Girl hopefuls, Stacy from Edmond, Okla. and Erica, from Midwest City, Okla., were chosen to participate in the first ever "People's Choice" vote. Beginning on Wednesday, July 22, fans can visit thunder.nba.com, view photos and videos of the two finalists and cast their vote for either Name or Name. Voting ends Monday, July 27 at noon and the "People's Choice" Thunder Girl will be announced shortly after on the Thunder site.
Being the Thunder fans we are, we decided to check out the two final Thunder Girl candidates and cast our vote. We were also going to publicly endorse one of them, but unfortunately Clark Matthews and I could not come to an agreement on who should win. So instead of an official site endorsement, we are each giving our personal pitch on which girl should receive your vote. We our going to do this in a standard and conventional point/ counterpoint format.
Check it out after the jump: