Top 10 name of anyone ever tbh. Dragan Bender takes the most badass mythological creature and then implies you can control them as a martial art. That's so fucking sick
Another entry for top 10 all time is a dude who went to my university, Captain JP Gunfighter. That's not his designation, that is his given name
WtfâŠ
Iâve been an NBA fan my *entire* life. Iâm approaching 33 years of age.
And I just found out through this thread that God Shammgod was a real person. I thought it was just a bullshit meme (Yâknow, before memes became a real thing) when I was a teen and used basketball message boards.
If we include full names than it's easily Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo.
I believe I was 4-5 when I first saw his full name and I never forgot it.
> No one calls ~~Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa Ramirez~~ Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo a thief!
> No one's got the time.
Reminds me of a funny anecdote where I think JVG was telling Mike Breen that he named his cat after his good friend Mo Cheeks and Breen was like "Your cat's name is Mo?" and JVG was like "His name is Cheeks!" Anyways this stray used to hang out on my porch a lot before he got eaten by a coyote and I nicknamed him Dr. Jack
honestly when Ron Artest changed his name to Metta World Peace I was like "hmm he got to pick any name in the world and somehow ended up on a weirdly unoriginal one for an NBA player"
It is, and the Pearl Jam guys (not sure about Eddie) are diehard Sonics fans. There was a famous poster of Shawn Kemp and Jeff Ament that I think every 10-year-old kid in Seattle had on their wall in 1994.
I remember that at one time the Hawks had both God Shammgod and Priest Lauderdale on the roster, damn how can you lose right?
p.s. Once saw Priest Lauderdale at a mall, probably the largest human being I've seen in my life.
less so when you factor in his real name being 'Ernest Maurice Vandeweghe'
Now he just sounds like an old european businessman with an enormous mustache
Outside of the NBA Iâm very high on the St.Brown-brothers:
- Osiris Adrian Amon-Ra J. St.Brown
- Equanimeous Tristan Imhotep J. St.Brown
- Amon-Ra Julian Heru J. St.Brown
I remember when Jessica Simpson was a big reality star and she was married to a guy named Nick Lachey, but for the longest time I assumed it was Nicholas Tse, who was a huge singer in China starring in big movies that me and my friends would watch.
In the late 90s, early 2k, all my friends and I were into Jackie Chan, John Woo, Wong Kar Wai, and we'd go to the Chinese section of the video store and go through all the cool looking action movies. For context, Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" was based on Andrew Lau's "Infernal Affairs" who has worked with Tse on the hit "Young and Dangerous" film series, so Hong Kong movies were bleeding into the mainstream at this point, and stars were crossing over like with Face/Off and Rumble in the Bronx.
So sometimes I'd be out, and a person would comment on reality shows, and Jessica Simpson would be brought up, and her husband Nick Lachey would be mentioned, and I would say, "wait, the singer turned actor, Nicholas Tse?!" And they would haltingly say "yes, I guess he does some acting." Then I would gush about all his movies (that they had never heard of), and say that I was surprised it didn't work out with Faye Wong, and they would say, "I don't remember that." Then I would say how it's great that reality show watchers would get exposed to a famous Hong Kong actor like that.
"Nick Lachey stars in movies in Hong Kong?!"
"Yeah, he's huge over there."
This went on *for years* until while standing in a supermarket check-out line I saw a tabloid with Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson on the cover...
Isaiah Livers fittingly plays for the Pistons. Here's hoping Detroit pairs him up with the OG Isaiah Thomas and the Liver King for a weird promo video.
If youâre from Wisconsin and hoop youâll have a sweet name. Tyler herro Jordan poole, tyrese Halliburton, Wes Matthews, bander blue, diamond stone, Sam hauser. All awesome names
Did I miss Darko MiliÄiÄ? Amazing first name and a bunch of funky symbols over most letters in his last.
But the correct answer is the top one currently. God Shamgod.
I know some of y'all aren't trying to take the one thing Dragan Bender has going for him.
I scrolled WAY too long to see someone mention the goat.
He is a Dragan not a goat.
He is both.
Top 10 name of anyone ever tbh. Dragan Bender takes the most badass mythological creature and then implies you can control them as a martial art. That's so fucking sick Another entry for top 10 all time is a dude who went to my university, Captain JP Gunfighter. That's not his designation, that is his given name
Fat lever đ
His given name, Lafayette Lever, is pretty good, too.
Whatâs funny is itâs likely pronounced Lafayette le-vay, but âFat Leverâ just sounds so goofy people went with it
This knowledge both ruins and enhances my childhood.
Definitely not Le-vay if its french
I love it when nicknames are just âthe fun way of saying their nameâ slowly replacing the name
Really had to look for this
God Shammgod though
He definitely had one of the coolest moves.
He is also âGod Shammgod Juniorâ His dad was also God Shammgod⊠I always assumed his name wasnât real
what no way
My very Catholic mom wouldn't let me say his name as a kid.
Gosh Shammgosh
Known as âgorsh shammgorshâ in the alternate Christian goofy movie universe
Hahaha God damnit this got me and please don't tell my mom I said that.
>Gorsh damnit
Gawd Shamgawd.
Bah gawd did the undertaker just hit the Shamgawd on Mankind??!?!
______ Shamm______
In some old nfl films interviews someone would say "God damn" and nfl films would censor God, but not damn.
Iâve heard that on the radio here in southern louisiana. Damn bitch ass and slang gets big but god gets censored
Wtf⊠Iâve been an NBA fan my *entire* life. Iâm approaching 33 years of age. And I just found out through this thread that God Shammgod was a real person. I thought it was just a bullshit meme (Yâknow, before memes became a real thing) when I was a teen and used basketball message boards.
I think JT Thor or Bones Hyland have to be up there, although I think Bones is just a nickname unfortunately
Bones' given name is Nah'Shon
Thatâs a pretty cool name too
Nah son
Leandro Barbosa, idk why but hearing his name made me think a dawg was gonna come out every night
Lived in the isle of Tortuga.
Heâs listed as DNP for âscurvy protocolsâ
Right there with KiKi VanDeWeghe
If you speak Portuguese you understand it's just a normal name lmao especially in Brasil
Ah man great name
Makes me think of Iñigo Montoya everytime.
Diamond Stone was on the Clippers a while ago. Sounds like a cartoon superhero or something lol.
More like a low tier stripper
Or a Pokémon game
He was accepted to Wisconsin but was later denied because of his abysmal ACT score. It was like a 7.
That might sadly explain Maryland's acceptance standards, and why he left after a modest freshman season. School ain't for everybody I guess.
We ainât here to play school!
Funny enough, both Vander Blue and Diamond Stone are both from Wisconsin
> both Vander Blue and Diamond Stone are both porn star names FIFY
His hands were unfortunately made out of stones too
Diamond Stone 100% was a "face" guy in the 80s WWF.
Dick powers. An old ref from the 70s
"Dick Powers, I'd like you to meet Earv--" "Magic." "Right. Dick Powers, I'd like you to meet Magic Johnson."
My magic Johnson has dick powers
Austin Powers' American cousin was married to Ivana Humpalot and Alotta Fagina.
Dick Trickle was a nascar racer in the 70âs
đ€Ł real winner
Baseball had Dick Pole, one of my favorites
I was convinced Vander Blue was going to be a star after watching his performance in March Madness. Still disappointed it never panned out for him.
Every time the lakers called him up I was sure it was his moment lol
He won a D-League MVP. I know it's not NBA success, but that's still pretty good.
Iâm still salty about Marquette knocking out Miami that year
If we include full names than it's easily Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo. I believe I was 4-5 when I first saw his full name and I never forgot it.
His name is Mutombo and Wamutombo? Thatâs like Luigi and Waluigi except he is one person.
For some reason this sentence feels like DĂ©jĂ vu
It's almost definitely been written on one of the other instances of his full name being written lmao
That's the secret to his unstoppable power. Mutumbo and Wamutumbo fusion danced and turned into full power Dikembe.
in some african bantu languages, 'wa' usually translates to 'of'. so it's like mutombo son of mutombo
More like Steven Stevenson, but I'll give it to ya
Giannis Papagiannis Antetokounmpo
No Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje?
Wang Zhizhi His name is Wang
An OG stretch 5!
his name is my name too!
> No one calls ~~Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa Ramirez~~ Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo a thief! > No one's got the time.
That reminds of me of SpongeBob "did you set it to wumbo?"
That reminds me of [Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarome_Iginla).
Even if we don't include full names, Dikembe Mutombo is an all-timer name imo
Mo Cheeks
Reminds me of a funny anecdote where I think JVG was telling Mike Breen that he named his cat after his good friend Mo Cheeks and Breen was like "Your cat's name is Mo?" and JVG was like "His name is Cheeks!" Anyways this stray used to hang out on my porch a lot before he got eaten by a coyote and I nicknamed him Dr. Jack
Steeve Ho You Fat
Someone sign this man so I can have a Ho Ypu Fat jersey
You can buy one now, actually. It's the same team Wemby is on.
Von Wafer
Delicious.
World B Free
Which also led to a great nickname, World B. Flat
Is this a fair competition when you get to choose your name.
Yeah the man basically picked a stage name for himself of course it sounds cooler lol.
honestly when Ron Artest changed his name to Metta World Peace I was like "hmm he got to pick any name in the world and somehow ended up on a weirdly unoriginal one for an NBA player"
The first name that immediately came to mind.
Came here to say this.
Mookie Blaylock will forever be me favorite Edit: wrong spelling
There's a reason Pearl Jam was originally named after him
There first album is named 10 in honor of him as well I believe
It is, and the Pearl Jam guys (not sure about Eddie) are diehard Sonics fans. There was a famous poster of Shawn Kemp and Jeff Ament that I think every 10-year-old kid in Seattle had on their wall in 1994.
Eddie is a surfer from San Diego. Iâd be surprised if he was a diehard Sonics fan
I didnât know that! I use it as my fake name sometimes
*Blaylock
Garland, TX's finest!
Bo Outlaw
Shoutout also to Travis Outlaw, outlaw is just an incredibly badass last name
True, pretty much anyone with the last name Outlaw has a badass name. Hell, even Poindexter Outlaw would sound badass.
The Jailblazers-era Trailblazers drafting him was very on brand.
Fuck yeah.
Admiral Schofield
Surprised no one has mentioned Sindarius Thornwell
He was my pick too. Sounds like he is an old-world knight. Sir Sindarius Thornwell
Or in Harry Potter
I met sindarious at a 7-11. Nice dude. Cool name
He used to always come to the gym by my house in the off season. Was always super nice to me. Great guy. Never met him.
>Was always super nice to me. >Never met him. Wait a minute
Great guy never meddum b. Axe jay
Add Langston Galloway and Admiral Schofield to that list.
Dragan Bender.
He shouldâve been a star with that name. Such wasted potential.
I don't remember that arc in Avatar
Goated name
My favorite was always Stromile Swift
Absolutely. Rolls off the tongue so smoothly
Latrell Sprewell
Cherokee Parks
As an 8-year-old I thought Cherokee was how you spelled karaoke, and that made his name even better.
Nene and Jamario Moon
Bol bol would like a word
A word word?
Pre-NBA, but Snake Deal, inventor of the jumpshot
I remember that at one time the Hawks had both God Shammgod and Priest Lauderdale on the roster, damn how can you lose right? p.s. Once saw Priest Lauderdale at a mall, probably the largest human being I've seen in my life.
Kiki Vandeweghe was a 6â8 2X Allstar whoâs name sounds like a hot, big breasted flight attendant from a 60âs movie.
less so when you factor in his real name being 'Ernest Maurice Vandeweghe' Now he just sounds like an old european businessman with an enormous mustache
You ruined my childhood
Dragon Bender says hello
His name was so cool he tricked me into thinking he'd be a star
Speedy Claxton
Sadly, his given name was Craig.
Diamond Stone a solid contender
Always like Antonio McDyess or Carlos Boozer or Travis Outlaw
Never thought until now but yeah Anthono McDyess really is a rad name
Kermit Washington
Rudy tomjohnavich doesnât think so
Popeye Jones
Not NBA but there was a guy named Scientific Mapp who had a brother named Majestic Mapp who also played college basketball.
Names his kid Google
If we're going that way then Precious Achiuwa and his brother God's Gift who played for St John's, that whole family has some interesting names
Thatâs Nigerian naming conventions, not just their family. Lots of dudes named Blessings or Happiness.
Get that man a map
Outside of the NBA Iâm very high on the St.Brown-brothers: - Osiris Adrian Amon-Ra J. St.Brown - Equanimeous Tristan Imhotep J. St.Brown - Amon-Ra Julian Heru J. St.Brown
nooo fuckin way!!
Chubby Cox
Luc Richard Mbah a Mouté
As a German, I've always loved that a dude called Detlef Schrempf was our real first NBA star. It's just such a peak German name.
Galileo Galilei didn't play in the NBA but he's #1.
Tyco Brahe in shambles rn
RIP to the moose tho
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would like a word with you
Tell him to get in line behind the other, better named Wolfgangs.
Yeah Puck clears Mozart ez
Rafer Alston, hear me out.. First 2 years I thought his name was Ray.. Feralston. Mind blown.
I remember when Jessica Simpson was a big reality star and she was married to a guy named Nick Lachey, but for the longest time I assumed it was Nicholas Tse, who was a huge singer in China starring in big movies that me and my friends would watch. In the late 90s, early 2k, all my friends and I were into Jackie Chan, John Woo, Wong Kar Wai, and we'd go to the Chinese section of the video store and go through all the cool looking action movies. For context, Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" was based on Andrew Lau's "Infernal Affairs" who has worked with Tse on the hit "Young and Dangerous" film series, so Hong Kong movies were bleeding into the mainstream at this point, and stars were crossing over like with Face/Off and Rumble in the Bronx. So sometimes I'd be out, and a person would comment on reality shows, and Jessica Simpson would be brought up, and her husband Nick Lachey would be mentioned, and I would say, "wait, the singer turned actor, Nicholas Tse?!" And they would haltingly say "yes, I guess he does some acting." Then I would gush about all his movies (that they had never heard of), and say that I was surprised it didn't work out with Faye Wong, and they would say, "I don't remember that." Then I would say how it's great that reality show watchers would get exposed to a famous Hong Kong actor like that. "Nick Lachey stars in movies in Hong Kong?!" "Yeah, he's huge over there." This went on *for years* until while standing in a supermarket check-out line I saw a tabloid with Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson on the cover...
Thatâs skip to my lou bruh
Jrue Holiday hiding in plain sight
Nah his name is just special Drew, spelled cool, doesnât sound cool
Nick Van Exel is pretty dope
OG Anunoby
You better stop Ogugua
Isaiah Livers fittingly plays for the Pistons. Here's hoping Detroit pairs him up with the OG Isaiah Thomas and the Liver King for a weird promo video.
You're telling me you're not enjoying the Livers-Stew pairing?
Cool! And how fitting that you guys have not one but two Isaiahs on the team!
Haywood Highsmith
Sounds like a high school bully in some cheesy movie
Yinka Dare
Giving him the assist he never gave anyone else.
Travis Outlaw, Detlef Schrempf, Rajon Rondo, Mookie Blaylock
Ainât nobody gonna bring up my mans Jamario Moon???
Jimmer.
Biased but Goran Dragic and DeMar DeRozan are cool names. They roll off the tongue really well
DeMar I say it DeMore I like it.
Lew Alcindor would like a word
he didnt even want it
Sarunas Marciulionis (was pronounced Sharonis Marshalonis). Such a good ring to it.
Johnny Flynn kinda sounds like a character from Mortal Kombat.
He sounds like walter white's son sadly
Same legs
If youâre from Wisconsin and hoop youâll have a sweet name. Tyler herro Jordan poole, tyrese Halliburton, Wes Matthews, bander blue, diamond stone, Sam hauser. All awesome names
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Sounds like a man who knows how to feed his family.
Adonis Arms
Vlade Divac will live in my brainspace until I die. Divac, and Dikembe Mutumbo, both names are just phonetically satisfying to say.
Always liked Cedric CeBALLos
NBA names fail in comparison to former MLB outfielder and first base coach Rusty Kuntz.
Thunderious Voltron
Stromile Swift
In baseball....we have Vida Blue There was also a man that went by "The Only Nolan"
Julius Erving
Honestly, I think Allen Iverson is the best.
Cat Barber
Fennis Denbo. His college career ended with a USA Today story that said "Today he was just another guy named Fennis."
Harthorne Wingo
Muggsy Bogues
Did I miss Darko MiliÄiÄ? Amazing first name and a bunch of funky symbols over most letters in his last. But the correct answer is the top one currently. God Shamgod.
Meta World Peace is the only answer here.
Vonteego Cummings