China is crazy for the NBA and Chinese netizens have created their own (or improved upon) several NBA players' nicknames. Chinese nicknames are often incredibly layered puns, sometimes playing on the written form of the name, sometimes on their playing style, or other traits of the player. Id...
China is crazy for the NBA and Chinese netizens have created their own (or improved upon) several NBA players' nicknames. Chinese nicknames are often incredibly layered puns, sometimes playing on the written form of the name, sometimes on their playing style, or other traits of the player. Id...
One of the best nicknames for a basketball player, Vinnie Johnson was bestowed the nickname of “The Microwave” by Celtics guardDanny Ainge. Johnson came off the bench for the Bad Boy Pistons and could heat up in a hurry – think of an ’80s version ofJamal Crawford. Great call b...
the Milwaukee Arena (now the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena), the Hawks had little success in Milwaukee. By. Luqman Rashad, the founder of sports academy MPAC Sports Sudan, reached out. Introducing Some Of Your UW-Milwaukee Panther Football Players . Some of these players succeeded to won the NB...
On the anniversary of Tim Donaghy's resignation from the NBA, ESPN revisits how the disgraced referee conspired to fix NBA games, whom he did it with and the untold millions that flowed from the conspiracy.
Antawn Jamison forgets he is still wired for TNTs "Mic'ed Up" segement and all summer long we get to hear him singing along to Richard Marx in the elevator, drunk dial Susan O'Malley, and test new nicknames on his family ("OK from now on y'all gotta' call me 'The Go' when we...
"He was huge," Klay says. "He would announce our Little League championship. I know he loved doing it because he'd give all the kids nicknames as they came up to the plate." This is the kind of stuff Klay Thompson finds important. Family, friends, food, basketball. The res...
SI: You have several fantastic nicknames. What are your thoughts about Red Velvet? KH: Red Velvet was something that, you know, when I came into the league, I've always been a man of a lot of different nicknames and it's something my agency and the Hawks liked and kind of ran with...
Add more player chatter like trash talking. Have the commentators say the names of created players instead of jersey numbers more often, e.g. by adding a lot of sound files with common first and last names. Let the commentators sometimes use players’ nicknames. ...
(hence his nickname). Not only was this an astonishingly silly back story, but it resulted in easily one of the least creative nicknames for a MyPLAYER to date. Considering the previous two games gave us Frequency Vibrations and The President of Basketball, it was a low bar to clear, and...