Nicknames...

by **Silas** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:07 am

Ray Allen is actually "Ray Ray"

Robert Swift - "Swifty"

Rashard Lewis - "Sweet Lew/Lou" however you wanna spell it

by **Riot** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:55 am

Kevin Garnett is more often referred to as "The Big Ticket" or just plain old "Ticket" than "The Kid".

Ricky Davis had/has a nickname "Get Buckets". It isn't used that often but it is his nickname.

YouTube · by **shadowgrin** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:42 am

Riot's right, nobody uses "The Kid" now to refer to KG.

Qballer wrote:Dirk has no D, or used to

He still has no D.

Cambyland (Marcus Camby)

Isn't that "Cambyman", a reference to the "Candyman"?

by **BigKaboom2** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:31 am

I don't know if these count but Al Jefferson is "Big Al" and Kendrick Perkins is "Perk", but they both came from Tommy Heinsohn and aren't creative at all. Can't forget Hondo Havlicek of course.

EDIT: Errr...nobody mentioned Earvin Johnson?

by **Jackal** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:55 am

Earvin Johnson - Magic.

:mrgreen:

by **Gundy** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:15 am

Bill "Kangaroo Kid" Cunningham. That's one of my favorites.

Anthony "Spud" Webb

Clyde "the Glide" Drexler

by **[Q]** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:27 am

Riot wrote:Ricky Davis had/has a nickname "Get Buckets". It isn't used that often but it is his nickname.

I remember when I went to a Clips/Celts game 2 years ago, there was a loud obnoxious old white guy with a Boston Accent who yelled at him the whole game and called him "Buckets".

by **Riot** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:39 am

Qballer wrote:
Riot wrote:Ricky Davis had/has a nickname "Get Buckets". It isn't used that often but it is his nickname.

I remember when I went to a Clips/Celts game 2 years ago, there was a loud obnoxious old white guy with a Boston Accent who yelled at him the whole game and called him "Buckets".

Yup. Here he has the "Get Buckets Brigade" fan club. I guess the nickname is okay but it doesn't really flow. I find it hard to call a guy "Get Buckets".

by **jonnyboy261** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:16 am

Shaq- Big Diesel
Kobe- The Black Mamba Katana
Chauncy Billups- Mr. Big Shot or Chon-Chon
John Stockton- Stock
Andrei Kirilenko- AK47
Wilt Chamberlain- Wilt the Stilt and Big Dipper
Tim Duncan-TD or the Big Fundamental

o just found a link
http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-basketball-nicknames

by **Lamrock** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:06 am

Rafer Alston = Skip to my Lou
Steve Francis = Stevie Franchise

by **super_man322000** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:06 am

Scotty wrote:
Slizz wrote:Baron Davis - B-Diddy
Jason Richardson - J-Rich

Actually it's BD.
How bout:
K-Mart (Kenyon Martin)
Cambyland (Marcus Camby)
DJ (DeMarr Johnson)
One Man Comeback (JR Smith)
The Brazillian Blur (Leandro Barbosa)

And i could think of tonnes more, the ones listed in the first post are shit

Well actually I came up with more than you

by **[Q]** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:11 am

super_man322000 wrote:
Scotty wrote:
Slizz wrote:Baron Davis - B-Diddy
Jason Richardson - J-Rich

Actually it's BD.
How bout:
K-Mart (Kenyon Martin)
Cambyland (Marcus Camby)
DJ (DeMarr Johnson)
One Man Comeback (JR Smith)
The Brazillian Blur (Leandro Barbosa)

And i could think of tonnes more, the ones listed in the first post are shit

Well actually I came up with more than you

well, I wouldn't say you came up with them from memory or anything, it was blatantly copy/pasted from a website like wikipedia or something like that.

Riot wrote:
Qballer wrote:
Riot wrote:Ricky Davis had/has a nickname "Get Buckets". It isn't used that often but it is his nickname.

I remember when I went to a Clips/Celts game 2 years ago, there was a loud obnoxious old white guy with a Boston Accent who yelled at him the whole game and called him "Buckets".

Yup. Here he has the "Get Buckets Brigade" fan club. I guess the nickname is okay but it doesn't really flow. I find it hard to call a guy "Get Buckets".

yeah "Get Buckets" is a little awkward to say. That's why I prefer just "Buckets". btw, I found out that game that Ricky's a pretty cool dude, not like the cocky selfish monster the media makes him out to be. He was out before the game signing autographs for everyone that he saw. It was only him, Paul Pierce and Raef LaFrentz that stopped to sign autographs. I was hoping GP would've come out to do that but he was probably too busy in the locker room getting his old ass legs taped up or something.

by **Riot** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:38 am

Ricky is a really cool guy. He gave me his headband earlier in the year after the game. This year he had fans come to Target Center dressed up in all their Timberwolves gear and said he'd give season tickets to the 15 craziest fans that came. He ended up giving them all season tickets and that is how the "Get Buckets Brigade" was born!

by **Matt** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:54 am

Antoni McDyess is also "McNugget" or "Dice"

by **Laxation** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:11 am

-km- wrote:Chris Paul - CP3.

No

Raps13 wrote:Bosh - CB4

No

These are not fucking nicknames

by **super_man322000** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:41 pm

i added more mate

by **R.J.** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:17 pm

Le_Marcus wrote:Tyrus Thomas - "T-MONEY"
Rafer Alston - "SKIP" "Skip to my Lou"

umm, no. lol

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:38 pm

Allen, Ray - Jesus Shuttlesworth

I wasn't aware this ever became a widely used nickname for Ray Allen, except perhaps around the time He Got Game was released.

Carter, Vince -Air Canada, Vinsanity

I never cared for the "Air Canada" moniker. The reference made sense and was apt when he was playing for Toronto but to me it's always come off as being somewhat unoriginal, an attempt to market Vince Carter as a Next Jordan. "Vinsanity" is the better nickname in my opinion.

by **Tuomas** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:38 pm

Another one they tagged for VC is Half Man Half Amazing I remember.

by **debiler** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:56 pm

Where's 'Chocolate thunder' Daryl Dawkins?

by **[Q]** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:58 pm

Tuomas wrote:Another one they tagged for VC is Half Man Half Amazing I remember.

yeah I remember Kenny Smith launched that on a TNT broadcast but then later admitted it was already taken. The AND1 player "Half Man, Half Amazing" probably isn't too happy to have his name taken like that.

by **Matt** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:20 pm

1/3 man, 1/3 amazing, 1/3 injured

by **Isaiah** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:21 pm

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - The Captiain

by **Scotty** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:43 pm

Qballer wrote:
super_man322000 wrote:
Scotty wrote:
Slizz wrote:Baron Davis - B-Diddy
Jason Richardson - J-Rich

Actually it's BD.
How bout:
K-Mart (Kenyon Martin)
Cambyland (Marcus Camby)
DJ (DeMarr Johnson)
One Man Comeback (JR Smith)
The Brazillian Blur (Leandro Barbosa)

And i could think of tonnes more, the ones listed in the first post are shit

Well actually I came up with more than you

well, I wouldn't say you came up with them from memory or anything, it was blatantly copy/pasted from a website like wikipedia or something like that.

Exactly, you even said in your first post that you searched around and found them
:roll:

by **hova-** on Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:59 pm

shadowgrin wrote:Riot's right, nobody uses "The Kid" now to refer to KG.
Qballer wrote:Dirk has no D, or used to

He still has no D.

NBA.com put up his Top 10 plays and I think he had a pair of nice blocks.
Has no D is just exaggerated like people tend to when a superstar is not more than an average defender. But he is still and average defender in the NBA. You will notice that when you watch the European Championships for example, where Dirk´s defense is among the top.

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