OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Denver Nuggets 96-84 Thursday night in their home opener at Paycom Center. The win came on the night Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s NBA-record streak of 20-point games ended. Tulsa native Kolbi Jordan opened the night with the national anthem before tipoff. Jordan, an R&B singer-songwriter, reached the top […]
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Cory Young Sr. is an award-winning journalist, photojournalist, visual artist, educator, minister and 2002 graduate of Langston University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism. A member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., and Gamma Phi Delta Christian Fraternity Inc., Young spent 16 years with the Tulsa World as a reporter and staff photographer, covering major news and sporting events, including eight seasons of Oklahoma City Thunder basketball and the 2012 NBA Finals. He is the founder of Forever Young Photography LLC and a former photography and journalism instructor in several Tulsa-area schools. Young continues to document sports, including the NCAA Final Four and NIT in Indianapolis, Ind.; education; culture and community events through his photography and journalism, including contributions to both local and national publications. Young also serves as youth pastor at the historic Paradise Baptist Church, which survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Perhaps his proudest accomplishment is seeing his son Cory Young Jr., aka CJ, shine in the same field as a photographer with the O’Colly newspaper at Oklahoma State University, where CJ is psychology major with plans on becoming a sports psychiatrist.