Baxter Holmes Oct 23, 2025, 06:30 AM ET Close Baxter Holmes ( @Baxter ) is a senior writer for ESPN Digital and Print, focusing on the NBA. He has covered the Lakers, the Celtics and previously worked for The Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. Editor's note: E60's The Oklahoma Standard premieres Sunday at 11 a.m. ET on ESPN -- streaming the same day on ESPN+. This story, below, was first published on Sept. 30, 2025. ON A WEDNESDAY morning a little more than 30 years ago, before his mother left for work in downtown Oklahoma City, a boy named Kyle Genzer told her he loved her. It was a sunny, cloudless day. "Like today," he says. He tilts his head and looks toward the sky. She was in a hurry. He thought he'd see her later that day, after school. He wishes he'd hugged her, he says. At 9:02 a.m., as he sat in his eighth grade class at Wellston Middle School, about 40 miles east of Oklahoma City, Genzer felt the school shake and the windows rattle. "We thought it was thunder," he says.…