A •
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – "The Captain", "Captain Hook", •
Edrice Adebayo – "Bam" "The Onomatopoeia" •
Ray Allen – "Ray Ray", "Sugar Ray", "Jesus Shuttlesworth" •
Rafer Alston – "Skip To My Lou" •
Chris Andersen – "Birdman" •
Anthony Anderson – "Double A" •
Greg Anderson – "Cadillac" •
Giannis Antetokounmpo – "Greek Freak", "The Alphabet" •
Carmelo Anthony – "Melo", "Captain America", "The Patriot", "Hoodie Melo" •
Nate Archibald – "Tiny" "Black President", "Nacho", "Gil", "High-Noon", "The Gambler" •
Trevor Ariza – "Cobra", "Switchblade", "Athreeza" •
Paul Arizin – "Pitchin' Paul" •
Charles Barkley – "Chuck", •
Jim Barnes – "Bad News" •
Scottie Barnes – ”Scottier Barney”, ”The Acoustic” •
Dick Barnett – "Fall Back Baby" •
Jerry Baskerville – "Hound" •
Alfred Beard – "Butch" •
Michael Beasley – "B-Easy" "Big Mike", •
Marco Belinelli – "Beli" •
Walt Bellamy – "Bells" •
Larry Bird – "The Great White Hope" "The Hick from
French Lick", "Larry Legend", •
Bismack Biyombo – "Bizzy Bo", "The Acrobatic from the Democratic (Republic of the Congo)" "BB-8", "Biznation", "Big Bizness" •
Daron Blaylock – "Mookie" "The Boshtrich", •
Bill Bradley – "Dollar Bill", •
Mikal Bridges – "The Warden" "Brooklyn Bridges" •
Jon Brockman – "The Brockness Monster" (because he was rarely seen in games) •
Fred Brown – "Downtown Freddie" •
Joe Bryant – "Jellybean" •
Kobe Bryant – "Black Mamba", "KB-24", "Vino" •
Jimmy Butler – "Jimmy Buckets", "Jimmy Jordan" (due to multiple historic playoff runs, his resemblance to
Michael Jordan, and conspiracy theories that he is actually Jordan's son) •
D. J. Burns- The "Buuuuurn", "Big Boy", "Beast Boy"
C •
Joe Caldwell – "Pogo", "Jumping Joe" •
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope – "KCP" •
Brian Cardinal – "The Custodian" •
Antoine Carr – "Big Dawg" "Carushow" •
Sam Cassell – "Sam I Am", "The Space-man" •
Wilt Chamberlain – "Wilt the Stilt", "The Big Dipper" (because as a child he had to '"dip" his head after hitting it on a door frame) •
DeMarcus Cousins – "Boogie" •
Bob Cousy – "The Houdini of the Hardwood", •
Jamal Crawford – "J Crossover", "Crawssover Crawford" "L.A.'s Dance Instructor", "Mr And-One" •
Billy Cunningham – "Kangaroo Kid" "Uno-Uno" •
Ricky Davis – "Ricky Buckets", Grits 'N Gravy, Wrong Rim Ricky •
Walter Davis – "The Greyhound", "The Candyman", "Sweet D" and "The Man with the Velvet Touch" •
Darryl Dawkins – "Chocolate Thunder" •
Matthew Dellavedova – "Delly" "The Curry Stopper" •
DeMar DeRozan – "Deebo" •
Dimitris Diamantidis – "3D" •
Boris Diaw – "Tea Time" •
Luka Dončić – "Luka Magic", "The Don", "Devin Booker's father" •
Luguentz Dort – "Dorture Chamber", "Dortress" •
Clyde Drexler – "Clyde the Glide" •
Tim Duncan – "The Big Fundamental" (for his fundamentally sound game), "Slam Duncan", "Old Man Riverwalk", "Twin Towers" (with David Robinson) •
Kevin Durant – "KD", "Durantula", "The Servant", "Slim Reaper", "Easy Money Sniper", "Snake"
E •
Anthony Edwards – "Ant-Man", "Ant" •
Theodore Edwards – "Blue" •
Julius Erving – "Dr. J",
F •
Derek Fisher – "D-Fish" •
Eric Floyd – "Sleepy" •
Clarence Francis – "Bevo" •
Walt Frazier – "Clyde" •
Dan Gadzuric – "The Flying Dutchman", •
Harry Gallatin – "The Horse" "KG", •
George Gervin – "The Iceman", "Iceberg Slim", •
Artis Gilmore – "A Train" (his eyesight was so poor that he had to look at the court lines to determine how hard to shoot). •
Ben Gordon – "
Madison Square Gordon" •
Marcin Gortat – "The Polish Hammer" •
Travis Grant – "Machine Gun" •
Draymond Green "Day-Day", "The Dancing Bear", "Dray" •
Jeff Green – "Iron Man", "Uncle Jeff", •
Darrell Griffith – "Dr. Dunkenstein" •
Tom Gugliotta – "Googs", •
Richard Hamilton – "Rip" •
Tom Hammonds – "The Terminator" •
Anfernee Hardaway – "Penny" •
Isaiah Hartenstein – "Hartenstein's Monster" •
Connie Hawkins – "The Hawk" "Cruz Missile" "Boy Wonder" •
Mario Hezonja – "Super Mario" •
Buddy Hield – "Buddy Love" •
Grant Hill – "G", •
Darnell Hillman – "Dr. Dunk" •
Dwight Howard – "Superman", "D12" •
Kevin Huerter – "Red Velvet" •
Rodney Hundley – "Hot Rod" "Air Congo" •
Andre Iguodala – "Iggy" •
Zydrunas Ilgauskas – "Big Z" •
Ersan İlyasova – "Turkish Thunder", "Ghostface Ilya" •
Brandon Ingram – "B.I.", "Sleepy Reaper" (for his similar physical build to
Kevin "Slim Reaper" Durant plus his naturally heavy-lidded countenance) •
Kyrie Irving – "Uncle Drew", "Kyriediculous", "The Ankletaker" •
Jonathan Isaac – "The Minister of Defense" •
Allen Iverson – "A.I.", "The Answer", "Bubba Chuck", "Steven John Ray the Third"
J •
LeBron James – "King James", "The King", "The Chosen One", "(The) L-Train", "Buck", •
Larry Johnson – "Grandmama" •
Sam Jones – "Sad Sam" "His Airness", "MJ", •
Shawn Kemp – "The Reignman" •
Dalton Knecht – "Kneckt 4" •
Kon Knueppel – "The Konman" •
Furkan Korkmaz – "Furk the Turk" •
Toni Kukoc – "Croatian Sensation", "The Waiter", "Euro-Magic" •
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist – "MKG" •
Jonathan Kuminga – "The Kum Bucket"
L •
Trajan Langdon – "The Alaskan Assassin" •
Meadow George Lemon – "Meadowlark" •
Meyers Leonard – "Meyers Legend" •
Nancy Lieberman – "Lady Magic" •
Damian Lillard – "Dame Dolla", "Sub Zero", "Logo Lillard", "Dame Time" •
Jeremy Lin – "
Linsanity" •
Jim Loscutoff – "Jungle Jim", •
Robin Lopez – "RoLo" •
Bob Love – "Butterbean" •
Moses Malone – "Chairman of the Boards" •
Earl Manigault – "The Goat" •
Boban Marjanović – "Bobi & Tobi" (with
Tobias Harris after they remained teammates in three separate organizations due to being packaged together in trade agreements) •
Wesley Matthews – "Iron Man" •
Cedric Maxwell – "Cornbread" •
Luc Mbah a Moute "The Prince", "Moute Kicks Boute" •
Xavier McDaniel – "The X-Man"; •
Tracy McGrady – "T-Mac" •
Dick McGuire – "Tricky Dick", •
Kevin McHale – "
Herman Munster", The first to have this nickname was
Stojko Vranković. •
Reggie Miller – "The Knick Killer" •
Malik Milton – "Shake" •
George Mikan – "Mr. Basketball", "The Big Number" •
Bill Mlkvy – "The Owl without a Vowel" •
Sidney Moncrief – "Sid the Squid", "Sir Sid", "El Sid" •
Earl Monroe – "Black Magic", "Earl the Pearl", •
Greg Monroe – "Moose" •
E'Twaun Moore – "Uncle E" •
Mario Morales - "Quijote" •
Ja Morant - "G12", "Ja Warrant" "Ja Wick" "Ja Dropper" •
Marcus Morris – "Mook" •
Alonzo Mourning – "Zo" •
Fred Neal – "Curly" •
Dirk Nowitzki – "Tall Baller From The G", "Dirty", "The German Racecar", "Bavarian Bomber", "Dirk Diggler", "The Berlin Tall", "German Wunderkind", "Dirk Savage", "The Germinator", "The Big German" •
Jusuf Nurkić – "The Bosnian Beast" •
Frank Ntilikina – "The French Prince"
O •
Jahlil Okafor – "Jah", "Big J", "Little Sully" •
Lamar Odom – "The Candy Man", L.O •
Mehmet Okur – "Memo", "The Moneyman" •
Shaquille O'Neal – "Shaq", "Shaq Attack" •
Michael Olowokandi – "Kandi Man" •
Kelly Oubre Jr. – "Wave Papi"
P •
Smush Parker – "Scrub" •
Chris Paul – "CP3", "The Point God" •
Billy Paultz – "The Whopper" •
Sam Perkins – "Big Smooth", "Sleepy Sam" •
Elliot Perry – "Socks" •
Paul Pierce – "The Truth" •
Ricky Pierce – "Big Paper Daddy" •
Jim Pollard – "Kangaroo Kid" •
Vitaly Potapenko – "Ukraine Train"
R •
Julius Randle – "The Black Panther", "Beyblade" •
Zach Randolph – "Z-Bo" •
Austin Reaves – "Hillbilly Kobe", "AR-15" •
Paul Reed – "BBall Paul" •
Bryant Reeves – "Big Country" •
Glenn Rivers – "Doc" •
Nate Robinson – "KryptoNate" •
Oscar Robertson – "The Big O" •
Terry Rozier – "Scary Terry" •
D'Angelo Russell – "DLo" •
Bill Russell – "Russ"
S •
Arvydas Sabonis – "Sabas" •
Domantas Sabonis – "Sabas Jr.", "Domas" •
John Salley – "Spider" •
Oscar Schmidt – "Mão Santa" (Portuguese for "Holy Hand") •
Sofoklis Schortsanitis – "Baby Shaq", "Big Sofo" •
Luis Scola – "Ice Cream Man" •
Jon Scheyer – "The Jewish Jordan" •
Detlef Schrempf – Det The Threat" •
Dennis Scott – "3D" • Collin Sexton – "Young Bull" •
Iman Shumpert – "Shump" •
Pascal Siakam – "Spicy P" •
Ralph Siewert – "Sky", •
James Silas – "Captain Late" •
Ben Simmons – "Fresh Prince", "Big Ben", "Ben 10" •
Marcus Smart – "The Cobra" •
Bobby Smith – "Bingo" •
Kenny Smith – "The Jet" •
J. R. Smith – "JR Swish" •
Larry Smith – "Mr. Mean" •
Vassilis Spanoulis – "Kill Bill", "V-Span" •
Marreese Speights – "Mo' Buckets" •
Latrell Sprewell – "Spree" •
Dave Stallworth – "The Rave" •
Lance Stephenson – "Born Ready" •
Isaiah Stewart – "Beef Stew" •
Maurice Stokes – "Big Mo" •
Predrag Stojakovic – "Peja" •
Jerry Stackhouse – "Stack", "House"
T •
Jayson Tatum – "The Anomaly"ˆ •
Reece Tatum – "Goose" •
Isaiah Thomas – "IT" •
Isiah Thomas (born 1961) – "Zeke", "Cuts" "Dirty Kurt", "Big Sexy" •
David Thompson – "The Skywalker" •
Sedale Threatt – "The Thief" "Special-K", "The Big Meow" •
Robert Traylor – "Tractor Traylor" "Lithuanian Lightning" •
Nick Van Exel – "Nasty Nick", •
Anderson Varejão – "Wild Thing" •
Nikola Vučević – "Vooch"
W •
Dwyane Wade – "D-Wade", "Flash" •
Kemba Walker – "Cardiac Kemba" •
Ben Wallace – "Big Ben"lou •
Gerald Wallace – "Crash", "G-Force" •
Anthony Jerome Webb – "Spud" •
Victor Wembanyama - "Wemby", "Alien" •
Jerry West – "Mr. Clutch", "The Logo" (because he was incorporated into the NBA Logo) •
Russell Westbrook – "Brodie", "Beastbrook" •
Derrick White – "The Buffalo", "D-White" •
Andrew Wiggins –Maple Jordan" •
Dominique Wilkins – "The Human Highlight Film" •
Jamaal Wilkes – "Silk" •
Deron Williams – "D-Will" •
Jalen Williams – "J-Dub" •
Jason Williams – "White Chocolate" •
Jaylin Williams – "Jay Will", "Boom" •
John Williams – "Hot Rod" •
Jerome Williams – "Junkyard Dog" •
John Sam Williams – "Hot Plate" •
Kenrich Williams – "Kenny Hustle" •
Lou Williams – "Sweet Lou" •
Robert Williams – "Time Lord" •
Corliss Williamson – "Big Nasty" •
James Worthy – "Big Game James", "Clever" "Uncle P", "Bean Burrito" •
Trae Young – "Ice Trae"
Z •
Max Zaslofsky – "Slats" ==Coaches==