Basket Phrases

Phrases

• Agent Zero (Nickname of basketball player Gilbert Arenas)
• Air Canada (Nickname of basketball player Vince Carter)
• Air Jordan (Nickname of basketball player Michael Jordan)
• Air Zaire (Nickname of basketball player Dikembe Mutombo)
• Baby Gramps (Nickname of basketball player Greg Oden)
• Baby Jordan (Nickname of basketball player Harold Miner)
• Basket case
• Bean Burrito (Nickname of basketball player Nick Young)
• Beast or Perk (Nickname of basketball player Kendrick Perkins)
• Big Al (Nickname of football player Alan Shearer and of basketball player Al Jefferson)
• Big Baby (Nickname of basketball player Glen Davis)
• Big Ben (Nickname of basketball player Ben Wallace and American football player Ben Roethlisberger)
• Big Country (Nickname of basketball player Bryant Reeves)
• Big Dog (Nickname of basketball player Glenn Robinson)
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Posey)
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Worthy)
• Big Nasty (Nickname of basketball player Corliss Williamson)
• Big Red (Nickname of basketball player Arvydas Sabonis)
• Big Shot Becky (Nickname of basketball player Becky Hammon)
• Big Shot Bob (Nickname of basketball player Robert Horry)
• Big Smooth (Nickname of basketball player Charlie Villanueva)
• Big Snacks (Nickname of basketball player Jerome James)
• Big Sofo (Nickname of basketball player Sofoklis Schortsanitis)
• Big Z (Nickname of basketball player Zydrunas Ilgauskas)
• Bird Man (Nickname of basketball player Chris Andersen)
• Black Jesus (Nickname of basketball player Amare Stoudemire)
• Black Mamba (Nickname of basketball player Kobe Bryant)
• Black Moses (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Blow a gasket
• Boom Dizzle (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Brazilian Blur (Nickname of basketball player Leandro Barbosa)
• Bron Bron (Nickname of basketball player LeBron James)
• Buc The World (Nickname of basketball player Greg Buckner)
• Buffet of Goodness (Nickname of basketball player Channing Frye)
• Captain Canada (Nickname of basketball player Steve Nash)
• Captain Crunch (Nickname of basketball player Jalen Rose)
• Captain Jack (Nickname of basketball player Stephen Jackson)
• Captain Kirk (Nickname of basketball player Kirk Hinrich)
• Cat's Cradle

• Chicken in a basket
• Chocolate Thunder (Nickname of basketball player Darryl Dawkins)
• Clyde the Glide (Nickname of basketball player Clyde Drexler)
• Cradle robber
• Cradle snatcher
• DaWhite Howard (Nickname of basketball player David Lee)
• Defende Reboundo (Nickname of basketball player Dikembe Mutombo)
• Det the Threat (Nickname of basketball player Detlef Schrempf)
• Ditty Bop (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Doc Howard (Nickname of basketball player Dwight Howard)
• Dollar Bill (Nickname of basketball player Bill Bradley)
• Don't put all your eggs in one basket
• Downtown Freddie (Nickname of basketball player Fred Brown)
• Earl the Pearl (Nickname of basketball player Earl Monroe)
• Earl the Squirrel (Nickname of basketball player Earl Boykins)
• El Contusione (Nickname of basketball player Manu Ginobili)
• From the cradle to the grave
• Get Buckets (Nickname of basketball player Ricky Davis)
• Get weaving
• Ghostface (Nickname of basketball player Joel Przybilla)
• Go to hell in a handbasket
• Go-Go Gadget Arms (Nickname of basketball player Kevin Garnett)
• Golden Graham (Nickname of basketball player Joey Graham)
• Grits N Gravy (Nickname of basketball player Ricky Davis)
• Ground Hog Day (Nickname of basketball player Tim Duncan)
• Hair Canada (Nickname of basketball player Steve Nash)
• Half Man Half Amazing (Nickname of basketball player Vince Carter)
• His Airness (Nickname of basketball player Michael Jordan)
• His Heinous (Nickname of basketball player Bill Laimbeer)
• Hot Plate (Nickname of basketball player John Sam Williams)
• Hot Rod (Nickname of basketball player Rodney Hundley)
• Hungry Hungry Hilton (Nickname of basketball player Hilton Armstrong)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Slam dunk
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Cradle Of Aviation (Nickname of Hammondsport New York)
• The Cradle Of History (Nickname of Monterey California)
• The Cradle Of Liberty (Nickname of Boston Massachusetts)
• The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)