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NBA Legend and Hall of Famer
Re: Do NBA players just choose any name they want?
Originally Posted by BarberSchool
Most of the “white” entertainers you’re talking about are Jewish. And don’t even get me started on how many times those families have changed their names, sometimes out of necessity during periods of intense persecution, sometimes to hide past family crimes and start over somewhere new, or to “wear a mask” so others get the blame…. Also … Jews don’t consider themselves white, until it’s advantageous to do so.
Example:
Gene Simmons of corny band KISS
-real name : Xa’im ‘Vitz
Rodney Dangerfield
-real name : Yakub Kohanim
Sumner Redstone
-real name : Sumner Rothstein
Brad Garrett
-Gerstenfeld
Etc
The J's was robbing people weren't they with their loan sharking and tax collecting huh? Had to dip with the loot when they got found out and change they name to diamondstein.
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NBA Superstar
Re: Do NBA players just choose any name they want?
Originally Posted by tpols
White people don't do that. Black people been changing their birth names like Ali and Kareem.
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High School Varsity 6th Man
Re: Do NBA players just choose any name they want?
Originally Posted by iamgine
For example, Bam Adebayo's real name is Edrice Adebayo. Trae's first name is Rayford. We all know Magic Johnson. And then them Spanish whose middle name are their actual last name. Like Pau Gasol Saez.
Do they just decide on any name they wanted?
Is your real name iamgine? what does that even mean? my name is meat. that's pretty clear
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NBA Superstar
Re: Do NBA players just choose any name they want?
Nicknames are not endemic to a single group of people
Back in the early 1900s you had aspiring boxers changing their names to sound Irish, since Irish boxers generally got the best bookings. A young Dino Crocetti changed his name to Dean Martin. The father of his future stage partner Frank Sinatra had similarly used the name 'Marty O'Brien' as a young aspiring prize fighter. Top enforcer for Al Capone, Vincenzo Gibaldi, fought in his youth under the name Battlin' Jack McGurn. Of course when he switched to a career in organized crime he became known as Machine Gun Jack McGurn.
Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney got his name as a boy when his toddler aged sister would refer to him in the family's thick southern drawl as 'Dat Boy' but could only pronounce it as 'Dabo.' One of my close friends as a kid was named James but his father and grandfather were also James, so the family and everyone else called him by a Scottish nickname that went back in the family. He used the name in school, around town, etc. It was how everyone knew him. Most people didnt even realize his actual name was James.
Nicknames are like a common thing everywhere. I honestly wouldnt have guessed anyone would suggest otherwise with a straight face.
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NBA Superstar
Re: Do NBA players just choose any name they want?
Originally Posted by meat
Is your real name iamgine? what does that even mean? my name is meat. that's pretty clear
Pretty sure his name is Gine.
He is Gine.
See how that works?
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NBA Legend and Hall of Famer
Re: Do NBA players just choose any name they want?
Originally Posted by FultzNationRISE
Nicknames are not endemic to a single group of people
Back in the early 1900s you had aspiring boxers changing their names to sound Irish, since Irish boxers generally got the best bookings. A young Dino Crocetti changed his name to Dean Martin. The father of his future stage partner Frank Sinatra had similarly used the name 'Marty O'Brien' as a young aspiring prize fighter. Top enforcer for Al Capone, Vincenzo Gibaldi, fought in his youth under the name Battlin' Jack McGurn. Of course when he switched to a career in organized crime he became known as Machine Gun Jack McGurn.
Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney got his name as a boy when his toddler aged sister would refer to him in the family's thick southern drawl as 'Dat Boy' but could only pronounce it as 'Dabo.' One of my close friends as a kid was named James but his father and grandfather were also James, so the family and everyone else called him by a Scottish nickname that went back in the family. He used the name in school, around town, etc. It was how everyone knew him. Most people didnt even realize his actual name was James.
Nicknames are like a common thing everywhere. I honestly wouldnt have guessed anyone would suggest otherwise with a straight face.
Now name the NBA players who did it.
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NBA Legend and Hall of Famer
Re: Do NBA players just choose any name they want?
Originally Posted by BarberSchool
^He certainly wasn’t going to stick with Adolph Shayes lol
Somebody find out what these dudes real names are:
Hot Rod Williams (hot plate more like)
Mookie Blaylock
Fat Lever (I think it’s Lafayette)
Dj Strawberry
Popeye Jones
God Shammgod
(Dude had to change his name when he did the knowledge of self lol) (probably born Rodney Tompkins or something like that)
Darell Strawberry Jr. I imagine
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High School Varsity 6th Man
Re: Do NBA players just choose any name they want?
This is a pointless thread. Yes, people have nicknames. You can call yourself whatever you want. You can be a woman these days if you want
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NBA Superstar
Re: Do NBA players just choose any name they want?
Originally Posted by tpols
Now name the NBA players who did it.
Hondo
Birdman
Jimmer
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Re: Do NBA players just choose any name they want?
Originally Posted by tpols
The J's was robbing people weren't they with their loan sharking and tax collecting huh? Had to dip with the loot when they got found out and change they name to diamondstein.
It's pretty funny how the jews leaned into that though.
The number one prejudice against jews is that they love money too much and then they go choose name like Goldstein, Diamond, Rubenstein etc.
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Re: Do NBA players just choose any name they want?
Originally Posted by Kblaze8855
I imagine So. Most people do. I bet 20% of the people I know don’t go by their actual government first name.
I guess my musing is more about if the players decide what name is put on NBA's official channels (rosters, website, jerseys, etc).
Like what if Shaq decided he wanted to be named Shaq Diesel in the NBA.
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NBA lottery pick
Re: Do NBA players just choose any name they want?
Originally Posted by 90sgoat
It's pretty funny how the jews leaned into that though.
The number one prejudice against jews is that they love money too much and then they go choose name like Goldstein, Diamond, Rubenstein etc.
Jews were asigned these names so the general public could easily differentiate them from themselves. For every Goldstein there was a Feinstein or Rosenblatt. Has nothing to do with greedy judaism.
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Lol
Re: Do NBA players just choose any name they want?
Originally Posted by Overdrive
Jews were asigned these names so the general public could easily differentiate them from themselves. For every Goldstein there was a Feinstein or Rosenblatt. Has nothing to do with greedy judaism.
That guy 90sgoat is a white supremacist who's openly admitted to only cheering for white players lol
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NBA lottery pick
Re: Do NBA players just choose any name they want?
Originally Posted by RRR3
That guy 90sgoat is a white supremacist who's openly admitted to only cheering for white players lol
Does he also still cheer for Harden on the Nets? I knew he was stupid, but that explains alot.
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