Anonymous is the worst nickname for hoops posters

I use to like the nickname "Mail-Man" but now when i think of the mail-man i just think of busted up packages thrown over my fence and delivered 4 weeks late. Thanks Aus Post!!!

With "O" at the end of their surname."

Co-signing on this. Hate them, so lame!"

You're clearly not Australians, are you Anono's?

Damien Three-0 Keogh

In the NBL... anything that involves "machine"

James Harvey "the excitement machine"
Shawn Redhage "the scoring machine"

Other bad wildcats nicknames
David "Whippit" Bailey

Also, it took me years to realise that Greg Hire wears the number 4 because he's a Greg "For" Hire.

Some random good ones I'm a fan of...

I watched a game at Dyckman Park in NYC back in 2012, and the MC labelled a guy as "The Janitor" because he also knocks down buckets. I thought that was cool.

We used to call a guy on our team the moistoriser, coz he had soft hands around the basket and would always get friendly rolls.

A ref at my local used to call one of my mates the Silent Assassin, becuase he never said much, but would be a killer on the court. After a while, he didn't even say "silent assassin" any more, the ref would just make the "shhh" gesture with his finger on his mouth after a basket. loved it.

Tad Duflemeir.

Other bad wildcats nicknames
David "Whippit" Bailey

Tad Duflemeir.

What's the difference between Whippit and Whippet? I always thought it was "whippit" because he "whips it" coz he was really fast.

Wtf is a whippet?

noun

1. one of a breed of small, swift dogs resembling a greyhound, used for hunting rabbits and for racing.
2. Also called whippet tank. a fast, light tank used by the British in World War I.

Where was it officially stated that it was Whippet and not Whippit. Pretty sure you could make a case for his nickname being Whippit too.

Sure, apart from the fact that it wasn't, and that isn't a word.

How do you know it wasn't.

It is a word. It's colloquial slang.

A whipped cream charger (sometimes colloquially called a whippit, whippet, nossy, nang or charger) is a steel cylinder or cartridge filled with nitrous oxide (N2O) that is used as a whipping agent in a whipped cream dispenser.

David Bailey was so face it was like he was a small cartridge filled with nitrous oxide. he'd whip is defenders around so much it's they wouldn't know what happened, as if they were high from inhaling a whippit.

How do you know it wasn't.

I believe the original Microwave moniker was given to Vinnie Johnson of the Detroit Pistons.

He was given the nickname by Celtic guard Danny Ainge for his ability to score many points in a short period of time. Like a microwave he could heat up quickly.

Pretty appropriate at the time.

In general nicknames copied from original ones which more often than not those of NBA players really annoy me.

If you cant think of an original one then dont bother.

"The Black Pearl" - Cal Bruton
Ricky "Amazing" Grace
"The Alabama Slammer" - James Crawford
Jesse "The Body" Wagstaff

TWIN AIR

I could never work out if "Slow fat c*nt" was my nickname or an insult. Plenty used it though

Um found this article

http://www.nbl.com.au/news/article/39421-the-top-ten-nicknames-in-nbl-history

Earl Monroe (NBA 50th anniversary team member) was known as Black Jesus, that sounds like it needs explaining.

Dr J. Julius Erving

Pistol Pete Maravich

Hakeem "the Dream" Olajuwon

Clyde "the glide" Drexler was a rubbish nickname

Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues

Spud Webb

I have an issue with Lebron James being called King James, it makes no sense as to why you call a king by his surname, you call him King Lebron and James would be to show his lineage. Like the Windsors, Tudors, Plantagenets, Stuarts of England/Britain and the Ramanovs of Russia.

Grandmama was Larry Johnson from the Converse adverts but my favourite

Andrei Kirilenko wore number 47 for Utah and was nicknamed AK47

"the microwave" Chicks done in 2 minutes or less?

on the theme of copied nicknames, there was a guy buried down the end of the Bullets bench called Duncan 'Magic' Johnston.

As that was my first season following basketball, for a while I thought he was THE Magic Johnson kids were talking about.