Nicknames

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    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting ThaLord:</div><div class="quote_post">Jason 'White Chocolate' Kidd
    Shaquille ' The Big Aristotle' O'Neal</div>
    White Chocolate is Jason Williams. The Big Aristotle :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

    Bonzi Alcatraz Wells, and a team, Portland, Jail Blazers, [​IMG]
     
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    latrell sprewell - crime spree [​IMG]
     
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    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting mtj45:</div><div class="quote_post">zydrunas "the ukraine train" ilgauskas
    ok i just made that last one up but you have to like the ukraine train!!</div>

    You are thinking of Vitaly Potapenko, not Ilgauskas.
     
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    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting King James:</div><div class="quote_post">You are thinking of Vitaly Potapenko, not Ilgauskas.</div>
    Yes, Ilgauskas isn?t from Ukraine, he is from Lithuania
     
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    Dennis "the worm" Rodman. The best.
     
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    My favorite's always been Corliss Williamson- The Big Nasty.
     
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    I love "The Answer". It's perfect. It's really well-known, too. If you're talking about The Answer, people know who it is. I think it's every bit as good as the old school nicknames. Well, except Magic, but that was different. You'd never hear someone call him Earvin.
     
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    In Phoenix we called Jason Kidd "J.Kidd" now we just called him "Wife-beat-ah" -- I forgot about one of my favorite modern day nicknames, somebody posted Dirk's nickname, but I love hearing "That was RE-DIRK-ULOUS!" that and "Vince-anity" are cool, anytime you add a player's name into a word, it's gotta be good [​IMG]

    I do believe we've all yet to mention some of these...
    "Mighty Mouse"
    "The Admiral"
    "Zo"
    "The Croatian Sensation"
    "The Mailman"
    "The Dream"
    Clyde "The Glyde"
    Wilt "The Stilt"

    I'm sure most of you know who each is, so I won't waste my time... but I gotta say I do enjoy the older nicknames myself, but they did have the opprotunity first :P so they got some of the cooler ones. It's just like boxing, all the great boxers took the great names, now guys are rehashing them or coming up with junk names. "The Truth" is overused, not just Paul Pierce uses it. I remember a few rookies coming out in the last few years claiming that nickname as well, plus I'm sure high school and college kids are taking it as well now.
     
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    Not the Admiral, lots of people mentioned him. It's so befitting of him, one of the greatest team leaders. How about duos everybody? e.g. Olajuwon and his buddy, the first of the "Two Towers".

    Gotta love the name "Doctor J." it just screams mad offensive skills.
     
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    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting OgShowtime:</div><div class="quote_post">Yep, all caps, BOLD, bright lettering -

    <font color="Red">DOMINIQUE</font>

    I'm sure that was an oversight by WMCJ....I hope it was!</div>


    ahhhh jeez what am i talking about?? :thumbsdow .. i was doin this and just whatever popped into my head i wrote down, after i typed it up i realized that human highlight film was dominique. [​IMG]
     
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    ooh, just thought of another one..

    vinny 'the microwave' johnson
     
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    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting Magic Johnson:</div><div class="quote_post">Not the Admiral, lots of people mentioned him. It's so befitting of him, one of the greatest team leaders. How about duos everybody? e.g. Olajuwon and his buddy, the first of the "Two Towers".

    Gotta love the name "Doctor J." it just screams mad offensive skills.</div>


    Ralph Sampson [​IMG]
     
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    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting dj_premium_plus:</div><div class="quote_post">ooh, just thought of another one..

    vinny 'the microwave' johnson</div>

    Yep, back in the bad boys days. That reminds me of another Bad Boys, Bill Lambier. "The Lamb".
     
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    Vyper -Vintage '73-

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    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting BenWallace3:</div><div class="quote_post">Yep, back in the bad boys days. That reminds me of another Bad Boys, Bill Lambier. "The Lamb".</div>


    If you goin' with Bad Boys nicks can't forget 'The Spider' John Salley.
     
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    and of coures zeke [​IMG]
     
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    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting ThaLord:</div><div class="quote_post">Jason 'White Chocolate' Kidd
    Charles 'The round mound of Rebound' Barkley
    Shaquille ' The Big Aristotle' O'Neal
    Shaq's called the diesel because of his rappers album...

    Shawn 'The Reignman' Kemp
    Corliss 'Big Nasty' Williamson</div>


    white chocolate is jason williams. john salley is "spiderman"

    i've hard some people call stockton "the pasty gansta" lol.

    big dog = derrick coleman
    grandmama = larry johnson
    spanish fly = pau gasol

    old school i always liked "world b. free". i think it was his actual name, not a nickname. and nate "tiny" archibald.
     
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    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting cubanballer:</div><div class="quote_post">big dog = derrick coleman
    grandmama = larry johnson</div>

    For Big Dog, you're thinking of Glen Robinson. Coleman's nickname is DC, or in his bigger days, Big George (as in Foreman).

    <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">
    old school i always liked "world b. free". i think it was his actual name, not a nickname. and nate "tiny" archibald.</div>

    You're right, it was his real name. His birth name was Lloyd B. Free, but he legally changed his first name to World.

    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting Magic Johnson:</div><div class="quote_post">Who's the Captain?</div>

    That would be your teammate, the immortal Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, sometimes just called Cap.
     
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    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting InNETSweTrust:</div><div class="quote_post">Yup he does. Sam I Am or E.T.</div>


    LMAO

    sam"E.T." cassell
     
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    IMO two of the dopest nicknames were..McFilthy and McNasty..Jeff Ruland and Rick Mahorn...
     
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    My absolute favorite nickname for a set of players was the 80s Lakers, "Showtime."
     

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