Tyler Parker

Ranking the 117 Best NBA Names of the Quarter Century What’s in a name? Everything. Featuring Dwayne Bacon, Stromile Swift, and so many more, these are the NBA player handles that stand the test of time.

NAME RANK

An awesome name that was hard to cut

this is the only possible list where the early 00's era Warriors could snag the top 2 slots

An amazing name that almost made it

Incredible name. Very tough cut.

ah nuts

possibly the greatest thing ever written

A great name. Almost made the list.

Good blog with good takes in it. DeMar DeRozan and Carmelo Anthony rightly get respected as all-time great names we don't appreciate enough because we have heard them too often.

Ranking the 117 Best NBA Names of the Quarter Century What’s in a name? Everything. Featuring Dwayne Bacon, Stromile Swift, and so many more, these are the NBA player handles that stand the test of time.

NAME RANK

Please spend some time looking things up before responding with so many capital letters. These are names from the last 25 years. Shammgod played one season in the NBA, 1997-98. He’s not eligible.

Ranking the 117 Best NBA Names of the Quarter Century What’s in a name? Everything. Featuring Dwayne Bacon, Stromile Swift, and so many more, these are the NBA player handles that stand the test of time.

It’s NBA Quarter-Century Week at The Ringer. I wrote about names.

You have to negotiate with each vein individually so it’s gonna take some time. Nature of the project.

An absolute all-timer

Pretty nice little 2025 for BDT. He’s got OBAA and The Phoenician Scheme and he’s all cylinders in both. Nobody’s doing it like him right now.

He is number

a few small beers

Steve Lockjaw Who Just Do Stuff

One of the sandal straps is duct taped, the three stripes Sharpied onto the gray. He refuses to buy a new pair because the latest models are “too loud.”

He wears a coral guayabera, sarong, and adidas slides.

They should make BDT the next Godzilla but Godzilla is on vacation and the movie is called Godzilla on Vacation.

Watched One Battle After Another for the second time and feel strongly Benicio Del Toro can do anything.

what the fuck are we doing here

Didn’t know him but Kaleb Horton was appointment reading. He cared about the words. His sentences crackled. This is very sad.

makes sense

but I don’t want that

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

Like this is Forrest in Jenny’s bed

If you squint, at the 7 second mark he makes the Forrest Gump “I’m dizzy” face.

Told the Uber driver I wrote about the NBA and he talked about Connie Hawkins’s hands for 20 minutes.