Nicknames and sports go hand in hand. They make players more interesting, more human and just more entertaining in general.
The only problem, however, is that at some point in the 1990s, the sports world, and basketball in particular, got lazy and started doling out lame nicknames.
Bad nicknames have been around for a long time, whether they are completely inaccurate, ridiculously ironic, if they backfire on the guy who has the nickname or if they are just lazy and not creative as a whole.
A good nickname can make a player more legendary, or even seem better than he was (Thunder Dan Majerle, anybody?), but a bad nickname can just be embarrassing or downright hilarious.
So, for the sake of entertainment and a little walk down memory lane in basketball, I've found the nicknames throughout basketball history that are too lame, too inaccurate, don't make sense or are embarrassing for the guy who has it.
