Hundreds of thousands landed in the center of Oklahoma to celebrate the Okc Thunder and the first city NBA Championship.
Throughout the two-mile parade route that injured the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, City Hall, Scissortail Park and the Oklahoma City Conference Center-Rejoiced when Oklahoma City Thunder players chose the streets and greeting fans.
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Although the number of visiting people was the biggest gathering of the history of the Oklahoma city, the internet was discussed about whether the crowd was impressive. That’s what we know.
How many people were involved in the Okc Thunder parade?
Although the Oklahoma News shopping center reported a crowd estimate by quoting the Oklahoma city police, MSGT. Gary Knights said the Oklahoman police did not release any estimates of the crowd.
The official evaluation will be provided from the city center OKC partnership in the coming days.
Mayor of Oklahoma David Holt, who enthusiastically participated in a parade from a pickup bed with his wife and two children, praised the number of fans who appeared to support their team.
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“OKC lives 712,000 people, and maybe there are more people than today on the streets of the city center,” he told Instagram. “Thunder’s two continuous Thunder fans were stacked deeply on both sides of the street, and tens of thousands gathered in Scissortail Park. Whatever the total number, it was undoubtedly the biggest meeting in our city history. “
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What did people say about Okc Thunder Parade
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander goes through the crowd. Fans monitor the parade in the Town Hall and Bicentennial Park area. The Oklahoma City Thunder celebrates its first victory of the NBA final title with the championship parade in the entire center of Oklahoma on Tuesday, 2025. June 24th
Despite the large crowd, on the path of a parade, there were many on the Internet who either believed in false statements that very few showed or compared the parade with those who were kept in larger cities and even larger metropolitan areas.
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Video of a different, poorly visited parade, rounds from the satirical X account called @thenbacentel said it was a Thunder parade.
Although the official ratings of the crowd have not been released, the nearest comparison with the championship parade OKC is 2021. The Championship Parade Milwaukee Bucks, which attracted about 500,000.
Although this number is a whole parade, the One Pacers fan compared the images of the Scissortail Park after the parade meeting and compared it to a similar image in Milwaukee, which seemed to have more people than Oklahoma City’s photo.
In the context of the population, the Milwaukee itself has about 140,000 fewer inhabitants, but what most is not within the boundaries of Oklahoma is the size of the city of Oklahoma. OKC is more than six times the land area (621 square miles) than Milwaukee (96 square miles) and residents are distributed around the city.
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According to the Hoopsocial, OKC is the third small NBA market, just below the flour. According to the site, Milwaukee has a larger television market for about 170,000 people, even before considering larger subway residents.
When considering the populations of the subway district, the Milwaukee Metro has about 130,000 people, but again, the Oklahoma city subway zone is significantly more distributed, which means that the subway residents may continue to go to the parade at the OKC center.
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