NBA Fantasy Basketball Team Names 2016 – A Breakdown of Funny, Creative Player Mashups
With the 2016-17 NBA season weeks away, it's about time to think about a winning fantasy team nickname.
After all, the only thing harder than drafting a winning club is naming it right.
Let's take a team-by-team look at the funniest, most creative player name mashups. Given their retirements, Kobe Bryant and Tim Duncan won't be considered this time around.
Atlanta Hawks - The Price is Dwight (Dwight Howard), Dwight-Wing Extremists; Everything is Coming Up Millsap (Paul Millsap)
Boston Celtics - Wicked Smart (Marcus Smart); Demetrius Targaryen (Demetrius Jackson)
Brooklyn Nets - Brooklyn Nyets; Run Foye Hills, Run Foye Life (Randy Foye); Linsanity (Jeremy Lin), Temporary Linsanity, Linsane in the Membrane, Lin on Me
Charlotte Hornets - I'm Batum Man (Nicolas Batum), Breaking Batum, Batum Goes the Dynamite
Chicago Bulls - I Can't Believe It's Not Butler (Jimmy Butler); Grand Theft Rondo (Rajon Rondo)
Cleveland Cavaliers - LeBrontourage (LeBron James), James of Thrones, The King and I; The Love Boat (Kevin Love), All You Need is Love; Kyrie On My Wayward Son (Kyrie Irving), Kyrie on Baggage
Dallas Mavericks - Don't Bogut that Joint (Andrew Bogut); Circle Dirk (Dirk Nowitzki), The Dirk Knight Rises
Denver Nuggets - The Hummel Space Telescope (Robbie Hummel); Is that a Toupane? (Axel Toupane); Faried Falling (Kenneth Faried), Farieding Rainbows
Detroit Pistons - Little Drummond Boy (Andre Drummond), Banging the Drummond
Golden State Warriors - The Fast and the Curryous (Stephen Curry), Curryous George, Curry on My Wayward Son, Steph Infection; Fifty Shades of Klay (Klay Thompson), Klay-Doh; Durant Durant (Kevin Durant), Stairway to Kevin; Everybody Loves Draymond (Draymond Green)
Houston Rockets - James Gave Me a Harden (James Harden), Go Harden the Paint; Watch Me Whip, Watch Me Nene (Nene Hilario)
Indiana Pacers - Curious George (Paul George), Monta's Inferno (Monta Ellis), Out of My Teague (Jeff Teague)
Los Angeles Clippers - Lob City, CP3-PO (Chris Paul); Blake Griffindor (Blake Griffin), Wake and Blake, Don't Go Blakin' My Heart, Blaking Bad, Shake and Blake; Speights Jam (Marreese Speights), Speights Fire, Speights or Swallows; the Chronicles of Redick (J.J. Redick); DeAndre the Giant (DeAndre Jordan)
Los Angeles Lakers - Deng Girl! (Luol Deng), Luol and Order; D'Angeruss (D'Angelo Russell), Everyday I'm Russell'n; Yi of Little Faith (Yi Jianlian)
Memphis Grizzlies - Better Call Gasol (Marc Gasol); The Chandler Parsons Project (Chandler Parsons), Missing Parson's Report
Miami Heat - Bosh.0 (Chris Bosh), Bosh Spice; Double Dragic (Goran Dragic), Puff the Magic Dragic, The Dragic Jack, Do You Believe in Dragic?, How to Train Your Dragic, Dragic the Gathering, Blood Sugar Sex Dragic
Milwaukee Bucks - Monroe, Row, Row Your Boat (Greg Monroe)
Minnesota Timberwolves - Gettin' Wiggi with It (Andrew Wiggins); Rubio Tuesdays (Ricky Rubio)
New Orleans Pelicans - Jrue Light Special (Jrue Holiday), Jrue Can't Handle the Truth
New York Knicks - Joakim Noah's Arc (Joakim Noah), Noahwhere Man, Apocalypse Noah, You're Noah Good; Brose Before Rose (Derrick Rose), Rose Before Hoes, Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Oklahoma City Thunder - Westbrook Baptists Church (Russell Westbrook), Russell and Flow, Can't Knock the Russell, Everyday I'm Russell'n; Collison Course (Nick Collison), Head on Collison
Orlando Magic - Ibaka Flocka Flame (Serge Ibaka), Storm Serge, Serge I-Block-Ya, Bed Bath and Biyombo (Bismack Biyombo); Meeks and Geeks (Jodie Meeks)
Philadelphia 76ers - 0-and-76ers; Dirty Wroten Scoundrel (Tony Wroten); Murder She Wroten, Wroten in the Stars; Noel Diggity, Noel Doubt (Nerlens Noel)
Phoenix Suns - How to Train Your Dragan (Dragan Bender), Dungeons and Dragans, The Last AirBender
Portland Trail Blazers - The Crusty Crabbe (Allen Crabbe); It's A Festus Miracle (Festus Ezeli); Damian Thrillard (Damian Lillard); Plumdog Millionaire (Mason Plumlee)
Sacramento Kings - Boogie Nights (DeMarcus Cousins), Afflalo You Anywhere (Arron Afflalo); Collison Course (Darren Collision), Head on Collison
San Antonio Spurs - Better Call Gasol (Pau Gasol), Pau Right in the Kisser; Manu a Manu (Manu Ginobili), Act Like a Manu, Method Manu, Obi-Wan Ginobili; Midnight Kawhiboy (Kawhi Leonard), Kawhi Five-O, Why Kawhi Be Friends
Toronto Raptors - DeMar DeMerrier (DeMar DeRozan), DeMars Rover, the DeMartian
Utah Jazz - I Can't Believe It's Not Gobert (Rudy Gobert), Frozen Gobert, The Gobert Report; Little Red Rodney Hood (Rodney Hood); Shock and Diaw (Boris Diaw)
Washington Wizards - Beal Me Later (Bradley Beal), Dr. Bealgood, Beal with It, Beals on Wheels, the Real Beal; Biz Markieff (Markieff Morris); Wall About the Benjamins (John Wall), Another Brick in the John Wall
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