| PLAYER | NICKNAME | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zaid | Abdul-Aziz | The Kangaroo | ||
| Ray | Allen | Jesus Shuttlesworth | Ray Ray | Sugar Ray |
| Greg | Anthony | G-Money | ||
| Vincent | Askew | The Fiddler | Q | |
| Dennis | Awtrey | Tree | ||
| James | Bailey | Jammin James | ||
| Vin | Baker | Shake and Bake | The Hartford Hangover | |
| Dana | Barros | The Human Dynamo | ||
| Brent | Barry | Bones | ||
| Alfred | Beard | Butch | ||
| Benoit | Benjamin | Big Ben | ||
| Bob | Boozer | Bullet Bob | ||
| Frank | Brickowski | Brick | ||
| John | Brisker | Heavweight Champion of NBA | ||
| Fred | Brown | Downtown | ||
| Tom | Burleson | Newland Needle | ||
| Michael | Cage | John Shaft | ||
| Bill | Cartwright | Mr. Bill | ||
| Tom | Chambers | Tommy Gun | Ken | |
| Archie | Clark | Shake and Bake | ||
| Martyn | Conlon | Celtic Killer | ||
| Dave | Corzine | Lumber | ||
| James | Cotton | 100% | ||
| James | Donaldson | JD | ||
| Rod | Derline | The Rifle | ||
| Charles | Dudley | Grasshopper | ||
| Craig | Ehlo | Eggs | ||
| Dale | Ellis | Lamar Mundane | Silent Assassin | |
| Reggie | Evans | The Collector | Joker | |
| Sherrell | Ford | Shake | ||
| Danny | Fortson | Big Daddy from Cincinnati | ||
| Jim | Fox | Foxy | ||
| Mike | Green | Count | ||
| Jeff | Green | Uncle Jeff | ||
| Joe | Hassett | Sonar | ||
| Hersey | Hawkins | Hawk | ||
| Spencer | Haywood | Wood | ||
| Jerome | James | Big Snacks | Big JJ | |
| Dennis | Johnson | DJ | Airplane | |
| John | Johnson | JJ | ||
| Vinnie | Johnson | The Microwave | ||
| Eddie | Johnson | Fast Eddie | ||
| Avery | Johnson | The Little General | AJ | Taz |
| Bob | Kauffman | Ajax | Horse | |
| Greg | Kelser | Special K | ||
| Shawn | Kemp | The Reign Man | ||
| Reggie | King | The Mule | ||
| Tommy | Kron | Krash | ||
| Rashard | Lewis | The Blade | Young Fella | Quiet Man |
| Art | Long | Longo | ||
| Bob | Love | Butterbean | Bean | |
| Maurice | Lucas | Luke | Mo | The Enforcer |
| John | Lucas | Luke | ||
| Desmond | Mason | Mase | D-Mase | The Cowboy |
| Xavier | McDaniel | X-Man | ||
| Jim | McDaniels | Big Mac | ||
| Derrick | McKey | Heavy D | ||
| Nate | McMillan | Mr Sonic | Mac 10 | |
| Carlton | McRay | Scooter | ||
| Tom | Meschery | The Mad Russian | ||
| Ronald | Murray | Flip | ||
| Martyn | Norris | Moochie | ||
| Frank | Oleynick | Magic | ||
| Ruben | Patterson | Kobe Stopper | The Sky Pilot | |
| Gary | Payton | The Glove | GP | |
| Sam | Perkins | Big Smooth | ||
| Ricky | Pierce | Big Paper Daddy | ||
| Olden | Polynice | OP | ||
| Jerry | Reynolds | Ice | ||
| Bob | Rule | Golden | ||
| Steve | Scheffler | The Chef | ||
| Detlef | Schrempf | The Grand Teuton | ||
| Jack | Sikma | The Wichert Wonder | Banger | Big Boy |
| Tal | Skinner | Tab | ||
| Eric | Snow | Pookie | ||
| Dick | Snyder | The Duck | ||
| Larry | Stewart | Noise | ||
| Jon | Sundvold | Sunny | ||
| Wally | Szczerbiak | Wally World | ||
| David | Thompson | Skywalker | ||
| Sedale | Threatt | The Thief | Randy Watson | |
| Al | Tucker | Airline Al | Twiggy | Supertwiggy |
| Danny | Vranes | Lou | Mr. Defense | |
| Wally | Walker | Wally Wonder | ||
| Donald | Watts | Slick | ||
| Nick | Weatherspoon | Spoon | ||
| Marvin | Webster | The Human Eraser | ||
| Aaron | Williams | The A Train | ||
| Gus | Williams | The Wizard | ||
| George | Wilson | Jiff | ||
| Willie | Wise | Wondrous Willie | ||
| Danny | Young | Cool Breeze |
Thursday, June 9
Complete List of Sonic Nicknames
Updated July 29, 2016 (Jack Sikma)
Wednesday, January 13
Remembering Art Harris
Former Sonic Art Harris, who we briefly profiled many years ago, would have been 68 years old today. Sadly, he passed away in 2007.
Harris is largely unknown to Sonic fans who only watched the team in the 1970s or later, but he had an interesting life. In our very short biography of him, you learned that he came from a tough background in Los Angeles, matriculated to Stanford where he became a standout in the Pac-8, then made his way to Seattle, where he was named to the NBA's All-Rookie Team after averaging 12 points per game.
The remainder of his professional basketball career was brief, and, like many of his teammates of that era, it is extremely difficult to find information about him.
Since we posted that story, though, I did manage to find two contemporary articles about Harris from his time in Palo Alto. The first is from The Stanford Daily of January 12, 1968, and explores his transition from Watts to the Bay Area, as well as the difficulty he faced in guarding (then) Lew Alcindor.
The second is an even better article, also from the The Stanford Daily, from May of 1968, and is a recognition of his being named the Stanford Athlete of the Year.
Both are worth a read.
Harris is largely unknown to Sonic fans who only watched the team in the 1970s or later, but he had an interesting life. In our very short biography of him, you learned that he came from a tough background in Los Angeles, matriculated to Stanford where he became a standout in the Pac-8, then made his way to Seattle, where he was named to the NBA's All-Rookie Team after averaging 12 points per game.
The remainder of his professional basketball career was brief, and, like many of his teammates of that era, it is extremely difficult to find information about him.
Since we posted that story, though, I did manage to find two contemporary articles about Harris from his time in Palo Alto. The first is from The Stanford Daily of January 12, 1968, and explores his transition from Watts to the Bay Area, as well as the difficulty he faced in guarding (then) Lew Alcindor.
The second is an even better article, also from the The Stanford Daily, from May of 1968, and is a recognition of his being named the Stanford Athlete of the Year.
Both are worth a read.
Tuesday, July 7
The Wheel Turns
You've no doubt read the recent news that the Milwaukee Bucks' ownership is using extortion to get what the new arena they want from their local politicians. (If not, here it is).
It's sickening, really. The Bucks - not satisfied with the way things are moving arena-wise - and not satisfied with the fact that, gasp!, Wisconsin politicians are not falling over themselves with the idea of handing them an arena gratis, are now threatening that if they don't get their arena RIGHT NOW, they are going to move to Las Vegas. Or Seattle. Or someplace.
It is, of course, that second location that gets everyone in this part of the world interested. And, personally, I would like nothing more than to see Chris Hansen or whomever is representing the city of Seattle say loudly and unequivocably, "No."
No, we don't want your team.
No, we are not interested in being used a leverage.
No, we don't want to help you, billionaire hedge funders, in your attempt to swindle Wisconsin taxpayers with your cockamamie scheme.
Just NO.
It's not going to happen, because Chris Hansen wants an NBA team and he's got to play this silly game to appease the league and in the end, appeasing the league is how you get yourself a team.
It's awful, and sickening, and the hypocrisy for Seattle being involved is about a 38 on a scale of 1 to 10, and I'm completely aware that I'm probably the only person who'd rather not have pro basketball than to swipe another city's team.
But, geez, wouldn't it be nice if we just said no?
It's sickening, really. The Bucks - not satisfied with the way things are moving arena-wise - and not satisfied with the fact that, gasp!, Wisconsin politicians are not falling over themselves with the idea of handing them an arena gratis, are now threatening that if they don't get their arena RIGHT NOW, they are going to move to Las Vegas. Or Seattle. Or someplace.
It is, of course, that second location that gets everyone in this part of the world interested. And, personally, I would like nothing more than to see Chris Hansen or whomever is representing the city of Seattle say loudly and unequivocably, "No."
No, we don't want your team.
No, we are not interested in being used a leverage.
No, we don't want to help you, billionaire hedge funders, in your attempt to swindle Wisconsin taxpayers with your cockamamie scheme.
Just NO.
It's not going to happen, because Chris Hansen wants an NBA team and he's got to play this silly game to appease the league and in the end, appeasing the league is how you get yourself a team.
It's awful, and sickening, and the hypocrisy for Seattle being involved is about a 38 on a scale of 1 to 10, and I'm completely aware that I'm probably the only person who'd rather not have pro basketball than to swipe another city's team.
But, geez, wouldn't it be nice if we just said no?
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