Thunder part owner Aubrey McClendon, a founder and former chief executive of Chesapeake Energy who was indicted on Tuesday, died in a single-car crash in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, police confirmed. He was 56.
Less than 24 hours earlier, he had been charged with conspiring to rig bids for the purchase of oil and natural gas leases in northwest Oklahoma, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
McClendon owned an estimated 20 percent of the Thunder and was part of the ownership group led by Clay Bennett that relocated the team from Seattle to Oklahoma City in 2008.