Thursday, November 10, 2005

Deep Thoughts From A Guy Named After a Bug

Flea, from the admittedly stupendous Red Hot Chili Peppers has an NBA blog (SG's intern occasionally comes up with good stuff). In discussing the NBA Dress code, he comes up with the following gems:
i remember once in the '80s when mike smrek was on the lakers and
detlef schrempf was on the supersonics
and smrek was guarding schrempf
chickie was going crazy calling the game
"its schrempf on smrek! i mean shcrmrek on smrempf! smrek blocks smrek's
shot! SCHMREKALMPF!
and so on
As Kevin Harlan might (and has) said: "ACHTUNG Herr Schrempf! LUFTWAFFE!
greatest basketball names of all time:

world b free
sedale threatt
tayshaun prince
latrell sprewell
downtown freddie brown
moochie norris
mookie blaylock
spud webb
cazzie russell
ira newble
manute bol
muggsy bogues
cherokee parks
shandon anderson (it's the shand and that gets me)
god shammgod
and the incomparable smush parker

A solid list, missing just a few:

The brothers Mapp, Majestic and Scientific
Harold "the Show" Arcenaulx
Yuta Tabuse
Moses Scurry
Doremus Bennerman and a blast for the distant past...
Harthorne Nathniel Wingo

Did I miss any?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wasn't there a Yinka Dare?
And didn't G,town have a like Boomjay Boomjay, or there abouts?
And there was the old timer gym rat
Whitey Scoog.

GM

Kaiser said...

That would be Ruben Boumtje Boumtje.
http://nbadraft.net/profiles/rubenboumtjeboumtje.htm

And lets' not forget the Lithuanian sensation, Gundars Vetra. Sveiks!

Kaiser said...

P.S. Vlad Guerroro should totally start calling himself "Vlad Shamvlad". That would be so huge.

Steve K said...

Pretty good list. All I got is Gunnar Stapp

Anonymous said...

. . . and then there was the Dwainey Dwainey guy . . . or something like that. Can't forget him!

GM

Pooh said...

Duany Duany...
and then Luol's brother Ajou Ajou Deng...

Anonymous said...

Two just recalled blasts from the past (when names were really names)--Wyomming great Fennis Dembo, the UNLV beanpole Jarvis Basnight.

GM