Nicknames

January 20, 2008

They are a first step to recognition. Before the shoe deals and the All-Star appearances, an official nickname.

I saw this brilliant post on Str8hoops and had to talk about it. It is a very long list of official NBA nicknames. I thought I’d know them all but well I was wrong…

Did you know that Joakim Noah was called Dr No ? Sarunas Jasikevicius, Jazzy Cabbages ? Oleksiy Pecherov, The White Hole ? Or Nenad Krstic, Ballistic Krstic ?

We need nicknames for our Euroleague superstars ! If you know some of them or just found a nickname that would sound cool, feel free to comment !



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12 Responses to “Nicknames”

  1. Kerem on January 20th, 2008 11:35 pm

    Willie Solomon: King Solomon

  2. Arkadios on January 20th, 2008 11:48 pm

    Demetris Diamantides: 3D

  3. Thunder on January 21st, 2008 10:40 am

    Ramūnas Šiškauskas: Baltic Pippen

  4. Thunder on January 21st, 2008 12:13 pm

    Sofoklis Schortsanitis: Baby Shaq

    Panagiotis Kafkis: Air Kafkis.. :D

  5. Thunder on January 21st, 2008 12:19 pm

    Arvydas Macijauskas: Kalashnikov, Killer with baby face, Macas..

  6. Alexander Chernykh on January 21st, 2008 2:29 pm

    David Andersen - The Story Teller

    Trajan Langdon — The Alaskan Assassin

    Ramunas Siskauskas — Shishka (meaning in Russian either “bump” (from a hit) or “big shot” (important person) or a “pine cone”)

    Alexei Savrasenko — Savras

    Theo Papaloukas — Papas

  7. Thunder 2 Alexander on January 21st, 2008 2:33 pm

    In Lithuanian Ramūnas is called Šiška.

  8. Vic on January 21st, 2008 2:50 pm

    Vasillis Spanoulis-Kill Bill

  9. elaj on January 21st, 2008 8:55 pm

    Marko Milič - Air Milko
    Jasmin Hukić - Huka
    Goran Dragič - Gogi
    Jan Močnik - Lumpi

    etc.

  10. elaj on January 21st, 2008 8:55 pm

    Ofcourse, that’s from Olimpija team… ;)

  11. Kerem on January 22nd, 2008 3:49 pm

    James White from Fenerbahce: ‘Flight’

  12. aron on February 8th, 2008 7:49 pm

    Matt Nielsen - Smelly Nelly
    Marijonas Petravicius - Maryon
    Hollis Price - Baby Holly or Holly baby or baby Price
    Arturas Jomantas - Yo Yo

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