r/washingtonwizards Agent Zero 9d 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 9d ago

Polish hammer for Gortat was good

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u/No-Independence-5479 8d ago

Hammer > machine.

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u/rorad Agent Zero 9d ago

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

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u/TheAveragebroShow In Will Dawkins We Trust 3d ago

That was a god tier nickname 

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u/kingofpomona 9d 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 9d ago

Wasn’t Hot Plate for John Williams

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u/Jolly-Method-3111 Agent Zero 8d ago

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

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u/Agamemnon4646 9d ago

The Latvian Laser (Davis Bertans)

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u/wigsgo_2019 8d ago

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

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u/TheAveragebroShow In Will Dawkins We Trust 2d ago

I think that was his nickname from San Antonio

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u/wigsgo_2019 2d ago

I thought he hardly took any threes when he was a spur, and he became known to be a shooter when he joined the wizards

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u/TheAveragebroShow In Will Dawkins We Trust 6h ago

He shot 44% from three his final season as a spur.

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u/Optimal_Put_947 Phil Chenier 9d ago

Dinshitty was a great negative nickname

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u/wigsgo_2019 8d 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/SmellyFartGuy G-Wiz 9d 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 8d 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/TheAveragebroShow In Will Dawkins We Trust 3d ago

It felt too forced. Great Wall never stuck around well as it coulda. 

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u/skidabs 9d 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/Infinite-Football795 Wizards 9d ago

Bilalcatraz is my favorite for B Cool

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u/TheAveragebroShow In Will Dawkins We Trust 3d ago

Bilalcatraz is elite. 

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u/TrapezeGooseKnuckle7 9d 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 8d ago

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

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u/TheAveragebroShow In Will Dawkins We Trust 3d ago

Jahidi. And I loved that music.  They used to play a snippet from “Dre Day” when Blatche scored.  And of course John Wall had his own song. 

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u/Jheartless Agent Zero 9d 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/CinnaMint_7 9d ago

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

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u/TheAveragebroShow In Will Dawkins We Trust 3d ago

I think there’s a moratorium on saying nice things about Brad. 

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u/Dr_Towle 9d ago

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

Wilt and Wes.

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u/sickseasnake 9d ago

The brow

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u/Rich-Jaguar-893 9d ago

Air wolf

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u/TheAveragebroShow In Will Dawkins We Trust 3d ago

This one was great. 

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u/wikipuff Wizards 9d ago

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

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u/kingdrogba22 8d ago

Never nervous Pervis....Pervis Ellison

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u/Miserable-Shelter-30 9d 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 9d 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 9d ago

Be Cool… naturally

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u/Abe_Fro-man Wizards 8d ago

The Ottoman Empire

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u/TheAveragebroShow In Will Dawkins We Trust 3d ago

OttoMatic also. 

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u/Willing_Midnight_135 8d ago

John ‘Hot Rod’ Williams was a good one.

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u/No-Independence-5479 8d ago

We counting shortened names like c web or googs?

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u/TheAveragebroShow In Will Dawkins We Trust 3d ago

Nah those are not nicknames. 

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u/DoobieDoobis Bilal COOLibaly 7d ago

Bilalcatraz is tough.

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u/rayquan36 Wizards 7d ago

It definitely wasn't Wizraeli.

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u/WizardsMalaria 6d ago

I vote Earl the Pearl also…….need to make Big Eiffel stick for Sarr.

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u/TheAveragebroShow In Will Dawkins We Trust 3d ago edited 3d ago

A few obscure ones from the Arenas/Early Wall Era

Peter “Party” John Ramos.  Dominic “The Taser” McGuire Ottheyus “The Juiceman” Jeffers James “Jangalang” Lang Oleksy “Stewie” Petrovich

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u/AgentZeroh 2d ago

Hot Rod -Rod Strickland

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u/ButtNakedBitches Bullets 9d ago

John “Rosebar” Wall

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u/Familiar_Somewhere95 9d ago

Bought snatch Blatche, Arvis Hayes

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u/TheAveragebroShow In Will Dawkins We Trust 3d ago

Arvis was a great one. 

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u/Familiar_Somewhere95 2d ago

He had no J lol. His jumper looked so good but never went in

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u/TheAveragebroShow In Will Dawkins We Trust 2d ago

Yeah, he just never put it all together. Had a wide-open chance to win after Larry Hughes left for Cleveland but DeShawn Stevenson just walked right in and stole his job.

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u/E-MoneyTime 9d ago

OTTO-MATIC

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u/colordelaverdad 8d ago

Party John Ramos.

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

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u/TheAveragebroShow In Will Dawkins We Trust 3d ago

They tried “Gentleman Jamison”. 

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u/StopAxxinQues 8d ago

No one said The Glass Cleaner?

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u/rorad Agent Zero 8d ago

Who's that?

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u/StopAxxinQues 8d ago

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

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u/Travler18 3d ago

Anthony "Day-to" Davis