Spin - Why Don't These New Generation NBA Stars Have Nicknames?

[intruder]

Im a 90's NBA guys myself and I always thought nicknames were kinda stupid

 

[Originalman]

Paul George - Paul Gorgeous (forgot who came up with that but it was genius)
Blake Griffin - Caramel Shoulders was his old nick name. In honor of these thread I give you "Half-Breed, Half-Amazing"

 

[BezO]

The Greek Freak
Crash
The Polish Hammer
J-Smoove
Manimal

There are a few, but yeah, they're whack.

 

[Recca Gatsby]

Blake Griffin is Kuwabara

I can not fukkin WAIT till he has to face this comparison in real life. I was hoping one of them Kimmel mean tweets would be about this.

 

[the cac mamba]

Durantula is quite possibly the worst nickname a superstar has ever had.

except he beat himself with 'the servant'

 

[the cac mamba]

I miss Agent Zero

shot at 1:38 though

 

[Roadie pipeher]

shot at 1:38 though

is this nikka taking left handed shots towards the end of the video?

 

[Sccit]

is this nikka taking left handed shots towards the end of the video?

LOL NAAH THEY REVERSE IMAGED THE VIDEO, CHECK THE JERSEYS

 

[CarltonJunior]

Seems like these young bucks aint about that AKA life

Paul George doesnt get a nickname?
Blake Griffin?
Kyrie Irving?
James Harden?
Westbrook?
Aldridge?

Coli exclusives aside, most of em dont have nicknames or just fall back on generic initial/last name combinations (CP3, KD, K.Love, D.Rose)

What happened to the days of The Iceman and Dr. Dunkenstein?

Human Highlight Film

Now we have Big Baby and Swaggy P

All of these guys have nicknames.

Paul George is "PG13" back in the Miami/Indy battles he was "King George"
Blake Griffin had multiple nicknames, my favorite was "The Rim Reaper"
Kyrie Irving was "Uncle Drew"
Ames Harden is "The Beard"
Westbrook is young sabo
Aldridge doesn't need a nickname because LMA is easier


edit: this topic is old

 

[Taadow]

The Greek Freak
Crash
The Polish Hammer
J-Smoove
Manimal

There are a few, but yeah, they're whack.

I don’t even remember The Polish Hammer. Who was that, Gortat?

 

[Admiral Ackbar]

The Coli makes better nicknames.

My Knee Hurting is the GOAT

 

[Erratic415]

I don’t think it’s just the NBA.

The NFL too (around the 16:30 mark)



All over sports, it seems there’s just fewer good nicknames. Maybe people are running out of ideas, or maybe it’s just plain a lack of creativity.

 

[HandyWithTheSteel]

Today’s nicknames are way better than corny ass ‘90s nicknames.

Imagine some fakkit calling himself “The Worm” in this era.

 

[Fanservice]

Today’s nicknames are way better than corny ass ‘90s nicknames.

Imagine some fakkit calling himself “The Worm” in this era.

Rodman was called Worm since he was a kid

 

[Harry B]

Seems like this is true for every sport, trends come and go.

Nowadays it seems like it's more just based on their names SGA, Hali/the Haliban, Ant-man, KAT, Joker etc. Even if they still try with some like The Anomaly, they really don't stick. Like say JJJ, people only say JJJ although he has The block panther.

Cause probably, they sound corny to both the players and the new fans


Spida and Greek freak are the only ones I can think of that are frequently used that aren't connected to the players name. Unless you go a bit further back with Claw and them.


Edit: I also think everyone has a nickname, just they don't stick. Just like Grant Hill, Pippen, Ewing, or Stockton or even Kareem might've had many nicknames but they didn't stick like some other stars.