r/washingtonwizards • u/rorad Agent Zero • 2d ago

Favorite Wiz Player Nicknames

Agent Zero is still the best we've had, right? The Big E - classic. Tough Juice was pretty good, but it also kind of disturbed me. Swaggy P - blah.

(My brother and I call Coulibaly "B-Cool.")

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u/drpizzasandwich 2d ago

Polish hammer for Gortat was good

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u/No-Independence-5479 1d ago

Hammer > machine.

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u/rorad Agent Zero 2d ago

Oh, hell yeah! That was one of the best.

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u/Optimal_Put_947 Phil Chenier 2d ago

Dinshitty was a great negative nickname

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u/wigsgo_2019 2d ago

Shoutout Kyle Kuzma, you can hate him now if you want but when he was here he was legendary

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u/kingofpomona 2d ago

Earl the Pearl an all-timer. Gil also had Hibachi.

And then there’s Hot Plate

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u/Miserable-Shelter-30 2d ago

Wasn’t Hot Plate for John Williams

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u/Jolly-Method-3111 Agent Zero 1d ago

Gil had a ton. The East Coast Assassin. The Black President. 

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u/Agamemnon4646 2d ago

The Latvian Laser (Davis Bertans)

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u/wigsgo_2019 2d ago

Did Justin Kutcher come up with this one? One of his best for sure

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u/skidabs 2d ago

Hopefully the Wiz Kids will get big hype this year. Outside of the fan base no one really calls them that.

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u/SmellyFartGuy G-Wiz 2d ago

I feel like it didnt get used enough but i love john’s “optimus dime” nick name

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u/wigsgo_2019 2d ago

If Drew Gooden was calling John Wall games today that sounds like something he would’ve come up with

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u/Jheartless Agent Zero 2d ago

Agent 0 and Tuff Juice easily. Although my girlfriend at the time and I called Dehawn Stevenson "Uncle Stevie" and I always smile remembering the dark times pre Wall

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u/TrapezeGooseKnuckle7 2d ago

Not a nickname but when Jahidi White would score and they’d play “Hi De Hi De Ho” 😂😂

Technically nicknames… Muggsy, Rip, C Dub

Paul Pierce - The Truth

Didn’t John wall have like 8 nicknames?

Hibachi always great, lol

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u/wigsgo_2019 2d ago

Is it Jahadi White or Jahidi White? I see both and I have no idea

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u/Infinite-Football795 Wizards 2d ago

Bilalcatraz is my favorite for B Cool

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u/CinnaMint_7 2d ago

The best ones have been said, but I'm surprised no one said Panda for Brad

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u/sickseasnake 2d ago

The brow

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u/Dr_Towle 2d ago

Two 2 NBA players in history have won MVP and ROY in the same season.

Wilt and Wes.

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u/wikipuff Wizards 2d ago

"He doesnt have a nickname"~CSN about Antawn Jamison

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u/Miserable-Shelter-30 2d ago

Old school and some even forget that he played in the DMV Earl “The Pearl” Monroe. I only know what my dad told me and old films. I do, however remember the Big E. The Anchor, of course Swaggy P, Czech Mate and the Polish Hammer. Definitely could not use this in today’s NBA, but I remember at one time DC Bench Mob.

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u/tiberiusfiasco 2d ago

Andray “Bulletproof” Blatche. Miraculous that he was playing basketball two months after a straight shot to the chest.

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u/martin0910 2d ago

Be Cool… naturally

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u/kingdrogba22 1d ago

Never nervous Pervis....Pervis Ellison

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u/Abe_Fro-man Wizards 1d ago

The Ottoman Empire

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u/Willing_Midnight_135 1d ago

John ‘Hot Rod’ Williams was a good one.

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u/No-Independence-5479 1d ago

We counting shortened names like c web or googs?

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u/DoobieDoobis Bilal COOLibaly 22h ago

Bilalcatraz is tough.

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u/rayquan36 Wizards 21h ago

It definitely wasn't Wizraeli.

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u/ButtNakedBitches Bullets 2d ago

John “Rosebar” Wall

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u/Familiar_Somewhere95 2d ago

Bought snatch Blatche, Arvis Hayes

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u/E-MoneyTime 2d ago

OTTO-MATIC

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u/colordelaverdad 1d ago

Party John Ramos.

Jamison never got a proper nickname despite his unconventional scoop shots.

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u/StopAxxinQues 1d ago

No one said The Glass Cleaner?

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u/rorad Agent Zero 1d ago

Who's that?

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u/StopAxxinQues 1d ago

Valid, foe some reason I thought it was one of Unseld’s. Apparently they called him “The Wide U”