When you are over 7-foot tall it’s pretty easy to dunk. Maybe we could call him “Little Dog?” Or maybe “The Puppy?” Or would that maybe not go over well? However, to us, the quintessential “Big Dog” is Glenn Robinson. Who doesn’t like a good nickname? © ROBERT SULLIVAN/AFP via Getty Images Show full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. That’s also the nickname of Oklahoma State’s mascot. We aren’t sure. That’s actually how he got his nickname. Free-agent guard JR Smith, out of the NBA for two years, has emerged as a leading candidate to replace Avery Bradley on the Los Angeles Lakers' … Flying through the air is MJ’s thing. That’s actually how he got his nickname. He had a long time to earn a nickname. Payton is the only point guard to ever be Defensive Player of the Year. Robert Parish played for 21 seasons, and for an NBA-record 1,611 regular-season games. And yet it was perfect. Rik Smits was a giant guy from the Netherlands who was an underrated player. Everybody knows Michael Jordan, right? Before he even retired he was being called “Big Shot Bob,” which is, frankly, a great nickname. The 7-foot center, who had spent his entire career by the basket, was suddenly splashing treys. “The Big” whatever is usually a decent nickname concept, but none of them tops “The Big O” as a nickname. “Air Jordan” isn’t super creative for a guy named Michael Jordan. A bit later, another barrage of punches had Laureano back on the canvas. The U.S Postal Service doesn’t actually have that “Neither rain nor snow…” motto, but we still think of mail carriers as being largely reliable. Instead of just throwing his vaunted right hand, he kept up a steady work rate and just kept chipping away at Alvarez, who seemed surprised by the fluidity and quickness of Smith.Smith added the left hook off the jab, and instead of just focusing on hurting Alvarez with one big punch, he wore him down with punches that came from all different angles and directions. We just known that Hakeem Olajuwon is “The Dream.” It’s a rhyming nickname and a perfect one. If you are an NBA player, there is a good chance you are a known name.

How many people call him Earvin Johnson? LeBron.

Nik Stauskas was never a remarkable NBA player. Official criteria: Top foreign-born NBA players of all-time.Nowitzki was an incredible player and will make the Hall of Fame.

Official criteria: Top foreign-born NBA players of all-time.Nowitzki was an incredible player and will make the Hall of Fame. Earl Smith III Twitter: TheRealJRSmith (The Prodigy, J.R. Swish, Henny God, 911) Position: Small Forward and Shooting Guard Shoots: Right 6-6, 225lb (198cm, 102kg) Team: Los Angeles Lakers. It rains a lot in Seattle, and if you get buckets you could be said to be making it rain.

His “Jumpman” logo is still iconic. I wanted to prove I'm not just a knockout guy. Some guys are known by only one name. "I watched his fight with [Sergey] Kovalev, and Kovalev kind of set the way to beat him. He was called “Chief” after the big, quiet character from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” However, one day the closed captioning on a game turned “Nik Stauskas” into “Sauce Castillo.” In the modern era that was able to go viral, and a guy who never made much of an impact on the court got a great nickname anyway. In the seventh, Smith made a concerted effort to focus on the body.While Alvarez landed a couple of right hands that got the attention of Smith in the eighth, it wasn't nearly enough to turn the tide of the fight, which came to a sudden and violent ending. Joe Smith Jr. took a significant step toward a light heavyweight title shot by stopping former titleholder Eleider Alvarez by ninth-round TKO on Saturday night in the main event of a Top Rank card at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas. JR Smith is not standing with ESPN’s ranking of Hakeem Olajuwon. © ROBERT SULLIVAN/AFP via Getty Images Show full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. That's it," he said.On Monday, Smith denounced the vandalism and looting that have been part of some of the protests in Los Angeles. Everybody calls him “Clyde the Glide” so you know that works as a nickname. Vince Carter had a ton of nicknames: “Air Canada.” “Half Man, Half Amazing.” The best of the bunch, though, is “Vinsanity.” His dunking skills were insane, or rather “Vinesane.” It just rolls off the tongue, and until “Linsanity” it was the one “insanity” nickname out there. His son, Glenn Robinson III, is now in the NBA. Then there are the famous nicknames and the maybe not-as-famous nicknames that are still fun. The man broke a window on Smith's vehicle, Smith said in a video posted online.Smith said he was parked in a residential area and not near any stores where looting took place during the protests. A clean right hook to the head ended the fight a short time later.This was Rodriguez's second impressive performance inside "the bubble."

So the nickname was tweaked a bit to “Reign Man” to call to mind royalty, and a nickname was born. "I feel this one is a big one," said Smith of the victory. How did he get it though? So we watched that and worked off of it. And yet it just stuck with everybody.

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