{"id":835681,"date":"2026-09-15T07:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/835681\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T07:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:59:23","slug":"okc-thunder-mascot-rumble-nominated-for-nba-mascot-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/835681\/","title":{"rendered":"OKC Thunder mascot Rumble nominated for NBA mascot of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OKLAHOMA CITY (KSWO) &#8211; Rumble the Bison the Oklahoma City Thunder\u2019s mascot has been nominated for best NBA mascot of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The contest is a part of the USA Today Sports Readers\u2019 Choice Awards program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Starting from Sept. 14 and every day until Oct. 21, fans 18 and older can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/readers-choice-awards\/rumble-bison-oklahoma-city-thunder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/readers-choice-awards\/rumble-bison-oklahoma-city-thunder\/\">cast their votes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Rumble was previously named Mascot of the Year by the NBA in 2009 and Community Impact Award winner at the NBA Mascot Conference in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KSWO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY (KSWO) &#8211; Rumble the Bison the Oklahoma City Thunder\u2019s mascot has been nominated for best NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[12957,7,12958,16572,6,67,310,475,179,3966,3965,312,3209],"class_list":["post-835681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-7news","tag-basketball","tag-kswo","tag-mascot","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-oklahomacity","tag-oklahomacitythunder","tag-thunder","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117274003004608495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}