Basketball Reference is an amazing website that houses basically every basketball stat for everyone who’s ever played into an NBA game. I use it daily, and find myself drifting through random players’ pages just for fun. One feature always stands out on those pages: the nickname(s) under the players name. Some are well known, such as Atlanta Hawks’ point guard Trae Young‘s ‘Ice Trae’ moniker.
Others, like Andre Drummond‘s ‘Big Penguin’ and Cody Zeller‘s ‘The Big Handsome’ are as surprising as they’re hilarious. Other gems like those exist, and the best nicknames are the ones that are never used.