Comments on: What’s in a Name? Renaming the Teams of the NBA

By: jeremy tlf

jeremy tlf — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:39:49 +0000

both L.A teams should be changed to the crips and bloods it would surely develop some rivalry

By: Dake

Dake — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:33:56 +0000

this is classic. great post Ash, had me laughing out loud.

the Los Angeles Starf***ers is just so perfect in every way.

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:49:12 +0000

Love all those ideas, except no way do you get me to change from the Oakland Hammers. Nothing can make me drop that bone.

And yeah, I love my boys (no homo) but it’s easy to get them to do anything when beer is involved and we were watching State of Origin in the pub after we’d finished. Course, none of us were able to make it home cause we were all too depressed.

By: Blimey

Blimey — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:20:46 +0000

Loved the Article. Just wish I had more ‘buddies’ who would spend so much time wasting on purile pursuits like this, excellent.

A few additional suggestions:

Boston ‘Beens’ – Beantown? Or Has-beens, you decide.
New York Noise – Perhaps
New Jersey Who… Or Turnpikes?
Toronto Ay? – You can’t call them Mounties, the Mountains are 2,000 + miles away!
Washington No State – Or Murder Capitals
Charlotte No Shows
Orlando Anti-semites – A reference to Walt Disneys love of all things of Zion
Miami Humidity not the Heat – It’s not the Heat but the Humidity that kills.
Cleveland Flatliners – Named after the area downtown the ‘flats’ where all the party bars are, and clientele have been referred to as Flatliners…
Milwaulkie Suds – While the P*55 is probably correct, this is a bit more polite. And it rhymes with ‘Duds’!
Portland (My own team) Drizzle – As it rarely truly rains, but just damp drizzle. Strange we all choose to ignore finer qualities of the city, but hey.
Salt Lake Normans – The city is full of Normans isn’t it?
Denver Drought – Not only because the water table is prety desperate situation, but how long since they actually won anything?
Minnesota Purgatory – My favourite as when a player gets drafted or traded there, they usually are said to have been sent to Purgatory…
Memphis? Could be the Quiffs? The Pelvis? or Martin Luther Kings?

LA could be simply called the ‘F**koff and die’ seeing as most other fans simply say that to them?

The Wannabees is a great name, and seeing as New Jersey should already be called the Who? then, Wannabees is perfect. Surely someone has thought to take them back to San Diego where they could be called the Border Patrol or something?

Phoenix Cultural Dessert –

Sacramento Futility ?

Oakland Ebonics?

Any California team could called The ‘Cators, but that would just too easy…

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:22:14 +0000

And I forgot to add in the acknowledgements at the end of the article – I’d like to thank Hahn Light (the beer of choice for the night, cause we were all skint), the good people at the Victoria Hotel, Al and Joe (of course) and all the women who chose not to hit on the three dashing young men in the corner of the pub because they knew we were engaging in deep, life-altering conversation.

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:14:32 +0000

Yeah, that’s true – but MJ’s home town is part of the Chicago metropolitan area, so they’re all probably Bulls fans more than anything.

By: DJ Leon Smith

DJ Leon Smith — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:59:57 +0000

Not bad, only thing I’d suggest is the most famous person to come out of Indiana would probably be Michael Jackson. Not sure he’s going to supply you with a fantastic team name though.