BEST Fantasy Basketball Names for Every NBA Team

The Best Fantasy Basketball Names for Every NBA Team in 2021

The first important decision you face this basketball season is crafting a Funny Fantasy Basketball Team Name!

Fantasy basketball names make the game fun! But, this task can seem daunting trying to drum up something creative to name your fantasy team after. Don’t worry, I got you covered. Start where your NBA loyalties lie!

Some of these names are clever & funny. Some are dirty & crude. But they’re all guaranteed to make your leaguemates chuckle, and your fantasy basketball season just a little more entertaining!

Basketball fans don’t miss the hilarious Best Fantasy Basketball Team Names for 2021 broken down by all the NBA superstar players in the league!

I usually like to come up with something original when naming my fantasy roster, but using classic nicknames can be a great nod to your fandom! Don’t miss the list of Classic Fantasy Basketball Team Names. These legends might just be the inspiration needed to conjure up that perfect name for your squad!

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Atlanta Hawks Fantasy Basketball Names

Top Players
PG Trae Young, PG Delon Wright, SG Bogdan Bogdanovic, SG Lou Williams, SF De'Andre Hunter, SF Kevin Huerter, SF Cam Reddish, PF John Collins, PF Danilo Gallinari, PF Solomon Hill, C Clint Capela, C Gorgui Dieng

• Ball Hawks
• Rock Out With Your Hawk Out
• Angry Birds
• The Dirty Birds
• Ice Trae
• The Young and the Restless
• Forever Young
• Peachtree Prodigy
• TrAeTL
• Replay Trae
• Big Shot Bogey
• Bogey
• Double Bogey
• Triple Bogey
• Airbnb
• Bad to the Bojan
• Beats by De’Andre
• The Hunter Games
• Big Game Hunters
• De’Andre the Giant
• DeAndre Way You Want It
• Hunting for Points
• On the Hunt
• In the Hunt
• A Capela Group
• Swiss Bank
• The Old One (Gorgui Dieng)
• The Big Dieng Theory
• The Senegales Sensation
• Gorgeous
• G-Money
• Wright Place Wright Time
• Wright Here, Wright Now
• Fight For Your Wright to Party
• The Price is Wright
• Wright to Bear Arms
• Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Wright
• Red Velvet
• R3D V3Lv3T
• Red Mamba
• So Good it Huerter
• Huerter So Good
• Kevin Huerter your chances of winning!
• Come on Kevin, make it Huerter so good
• Come on baby, make it Huerter so good
• Please, Kevin Don’t Huerter’em
• Big O
• Killer Cam
• John the Baptist
• Sweet, Sweet Lou
• Sweet Lou
• Lemon Pepper Lou
• Skip 2 My Lou
• The Rooster (Danilo Gallinari)
• King of the Hill
• High on a Hill Top
• Over the Hill
• Run for the Hills

Boston Celtics Fantasy Team Names

Top Players
PG Marcus Smart, PG Dennis Schroder, SG Jaylen Brown, SG Josh Richardson, SF Jayson Tatum, PF Al Horford, PF Grant Williams, C Robert Williams III, C Enes Kanter

• The Big Three (Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, & Robert Parish)
• The Boston Three Party (Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett, & Paul Pierce)
• Gang Green
• Temper Tatum
• Tatum Tots
• Cardiac Kemba
• Walker This Way
• The Prince of Zamunda
• Smart Guys
• Wolverine
• Smarf
• Hound Dog
• The Cobra
• What Can Brown do for You?
• Tacko Tuesday
• Tacko Bell
• Out of Your Teague
• Nacho
• Teague of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• Time Lord (Robert Williams)
• Time Lord Hammer

Brooklyn Nets

• Brooklyn Ballers
• Ballin in Brooklyn
• Nothing but Nets
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• The Beard (James Harden)
• The Big Beard
• Fear the Beard
• The Man Behind the Beard
• Harden a Strip Club
• Go Harden the Paint
• Doin’ It Harden Fast
• Rock Harden
• Massive Harden
• Harden the Interruption
• James Gives Me a Harden
• I’m Harden Horny
• The Raging Hardens
• El Chapo
• Jimbo Slice
• Easy Money Sniper (Kevin Durant)
• The Durantula
• Slim Reaper
• Fear The Slim Reaper
• The Second Coming
• The Snake
• The Servant
• Stairway to Kevin
• Beats by DeAndre
• DeAndre the Giant
• The Jordan Rules
• Kyriediculous
• Cobra Ky
• Cobra Kyrie
• Kyrie on the Loose
• Kyrie Soze
• The Ankletaker
• Uncle Drew
• Kyrie On Baggage
• Kyrie On My Wayward Son
• Wake & Blake
• Shake ‘n Blake
• Blake Superior
• Don’t Go Blakin’ My Heart
• Blake Out!
• Blake Gryffindor
• Blaking Bad
• Landry Strip
• ShametWow!
• Landry Service
• Nashty
• Bangers and Nash
• The Shumpty Dance
• Do the Shumpty Shump

Charlotte Hornets

• Carolina in My Mind
• Carolina on My Mind
• Murder Hornets
• Ball In The Family
• Havin’ a Ball
• Kick in the Balls
• Melo My Mind
• Fine and Melo
• Ballin’
• Ballin’ Out
• Carry on, my Hayward Son
• G-Time
• G-Money
• H2O
• The Dunkster
• Scary Terry
• Dropping the F-Biyombo
• Big Smack
• B Smack
• Biznation
• Big Bizness
• La Pantera
• Black Panther
• The Acrobatic from the Democratic
• Master
• Big Mac
• 100 Miles and Runnin’
• I Would Walk 500 Miles
• Bridges Over Troubled Waters
• Monk’s Tale 

Chicago Bulls

• The Greatest Team of All Time
• Raging Bulls
• Chicago Balls
• Grab Life by the Horns
• In the Nikola of Time
• Nikola at Nite
• Big Dick Nikola
• Deja Vucevic
• Old Saint Nikola (Perfect for the Holidays)
• Vooch
• Vucci Mane
• Pat’s Tricks
• Pat’s Blue Ribbon
• Will the Thrill
• Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
• The Finnisher
• LaVine Large
• LaVine La Vida Loca
• LaVine Dangerously
• LaVine on a Prayer

Cleveland Cavaliers

• Cleveland Rocks
• SexLand
• The Rise of SexLand
• Kevin Love is in the Air
• All You Need Is Love
• Tough Love
• Love Stinks
• Too Much Love Drives A Man Insane
• Love You Long Time
• Don’t LOVE That
• Love Triangle Offense
• Stairway to Kevin
• From Russia with Love
• Beats by Andre
• DeAndre the Giant
• Bang the Drummond
• Little Drummond Boy
• Collin of the Wild
• Young Bull
• I Wanna Sexton You Up
• Let’s Talk About Sexton
• Let’s Talk About Sexton, Baby
• We’re Just Sexton
• Safe Sexton
• Unprotected Sexton
• Truth or Darius
• Double Darius
• Fresh Prince
• I’ll Take a Porter
• Return of the Cedi

Dallas Mavericks

• The Big Three (Dirk Nowitzki, Steve Nash, & Michael Finley)
• Wonderboy
• Nino Maravilla
• The Matador
• El Matador
• The Don
• Luka Skywalker
• Slam Doncic
• Doncic Kong
• It’s on like Doncic Kong
• Too Easy
• Cool Hand Luka
• Luka Magic
• The Unicorn (Thank you Kevin Durant)
• Aggressive Unicorns
• Unicorn Porn
• Three 6 Latvia (Inspired by Three 6 Mafia)
• Godzingis
• Porzingod
• Zinger
• 6 God (Thank you Drake)
• KP6
• Get Richardson or Die Tryin’
• Three the Hardaway
• Tasmanian Devil

Denver Nuggets

• Mile High Club
• Rocky Mountain High
• The Denver Mint
• Luv Me Some Nuggets
• Joker, Smoker, Mile High Toker
• Jokic on You
• Ain’t No Jokic
• Can’t Take a Jokic
• The Joker
• My Team is a Jokic
• Not a Jokic?
• In the Nikola of Time
• Nikola at Nite
• Big Dick Nikola
• Old Saint Nikola (Perfect for the Holidays)
• Air Gordon
• There’s Something About Murray
• The Blue Arrow
• Jamaal in a Days Work
• Eat, Drink, & Be Murray (Perfect in December)
• Murray Christmas
• Murray Up & Wait
• Jamal About That Bass
• Jamal, will you Murray me?
• Smokin’ a Bol
• Raging Bol
• Give Me the Bol
• We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Bol
• Bol Movement
• Irritable Bol Syndrome
• Jamal About That Bass
• The Hamptons

Detroit Pistons

• The Bad Boys
• Killian Me Softly
• Killian You Softly
• The Jordan Rules
• Dedmon Walking
• Little Sully (Jahlil Okafor)
• Detroit Piston My Cheerios

Golden State Warriors

• Good as Golden
• The W’s
• Weekend Warriors
• Golden Girls
• The Golden Boys
• Splash Brothers
• Dub Nation
• The Dubs
• We Believe
• Death Lineup
• Super Death Lineup
• The Road Warriors
• Chef Curry
• All You Can Shoot Curry
• The Golden Boy
• Chef BoyArdee
• Steph BoyArdee
• Baby Faced Assassin
• Fast & Curryous
• Bi-Curryous
• Curry the Team On my Back
• 2 Fast 2 Curryous
• Catch Curry if you can…
• Curry in a Hurry
• Maple Jordan
• Mr. Fantastic
• Two-way Wiggs
• Heir Canada
• Gettin’ Wiggy Wit’ It
• Wiggins Out
• Junior Jordan
• The Prospect
• A&W Root Beer
• The Wigginator
• Everybody Love Draymond
• It’s Not Easy Being Green
• Every Kiss Begins with Klay
• Fifty Shades of Klay
• Klaymation Domination
• Klay Up
• CA$HIUS KLAY
• Big Smokey
• Klayzed
• Game 6 Klay
• China Klay
• Headband Klay
• Fake Klay
• Camel Klay
• Scaffolding Klay
• Karate Klay
• Karokae Klay
• Japan Klay
• Tsunami Papi
• A Wiseman Once Said
• Baby Bosh
• The Loonatic
• The Loone Ranger
• Looney Tunes
• Rainbow Warriors
• Golden Showers
• Golden State Showers
• Paschanimal
• Wave Papi (Kelly Oubre Jr.)
• Temporary Linsanity
• Blurred Lins
• Lin On Me
• Symptoms of Linsanity
• Linsane in the Membrane

Houston Rockets

• Houston Rockettes
• Houston, We Have a Problem
• You Rocket My World!
• Don’t Mess With Texas
• The Dream
• Hail to the Victor
• The Gates of Victory
• The Black Panther
• Home Dipo
• Home Oladipo
• Boogie Nights
• Boogie Men
• Up Jump the Boogie
• Balls to the Wall
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• You’re My WonderWall
• Big Wall in Texas
• The Wall
• Mexico will pay for John Wall
• If these bathroom Walls could talk
• Another Brick in John Wall
• Little Drummer Boy (Kevin Porter)

Indiana Pacers

• Hoosier Daddy?
• The Knick Killer
• Justin Time
• The Holiday Season
• Happy Holidays
• One Fine holiDAY
• Holiday Inn Express
• Gone on Holiday
• 100 Myles and Runnin’
• Eight Myles
• Myles to Go Before I Sleep
• I Would Walk 500 Myles
• A Real Page Turner
• Silence of the Lamb
• Lambs to Slaughter
• Warren Peace
• Couldn’t Caris Less

LA Clippers

• Lob City
• Beverley Hills
• Beverley Hillbillies
• Mr. 94 Feet
• Keep it PG
• PG-13
• Rated PG
• Rated PG-13
• Better Call Paul
• Young Trece
• Curious Paul George
• By George!
• Kawhi’s Middle Finger
• Kawhiet Riot
• The Human Avatar
• Sugar K
• Kawhi of the Tiger
• Kawhi so serious?
• Kawhi Myself to Sleep
• Kawhi Me a River
• Kawhaii Five-0
• Big Girls Don’t Kawhi
• The Klaw
• Kawhi’s Laugh
• Midnight Kawhiboys
• KAWHI AY AY AY!!!
• Batum & Robin
• Air Congo (Serge Ibaka)
• Power Serge
• Storm Serge
• Serge Protector
• Ibaka To The Future
• Serge I-Blok-Ya
• Baby Got Ibaka
• Ibaka Flocka Flame
• Mook (Marcus Morris)
• Scrubbs (Jay Scrubb)
• No Scrubbs

Los Angeles Lakers

• Showtime
• Mamba Mentality
• King James
• Long Live The King
• The King and I
• All the King’s Men
• All Hail The King
• You Come at the King, You Best Not Miss
• The Lakeshow
• L.A. Bron
• The Chosen One
• James Gang
• James of Thrones
• Double Lebrontondre
• Taco Tuesday
• Brains and LeBron
• The Big Lebronski
• LeBong James
• LeBrontourage
• The L-Train
• The Akron Hammer
• The Brow
• Bow to the Brow
• Brow Beaters
• Brow Chicka Brow Brow
• Brow Chicka Wow Wow
• Unibrows Anonymous
• Davistated
• AD
• FedEx (Rajon Rondo)
• Playoff Rondo
• Rambo
• The Clinic
• Rondo Rousey
• Better Call Gasol
• Gasol I Need
• Gasol In the Family
• Big Spain
• The Big Burrito
• Gospel According to Matthews
• Iron Man
• Kidd ‘n Play
• Karate Kidd
• Kidd Gloves
• The Black Mamba
• Showboat
• Kobe Wan Kenobi
• The Eighth Man
• The 8th Wonder of the World
• Employee #8
• Lord of the Rings
• Mr. 81
• Vino
• The Dagger
• Church Of Kobestan
• Iron Man (Wesley Matthews)

Memphis Grizzlies

• Da Bear Necessities
• Grin and Bear It
• Grit N’ Grind
• Young King
• Moranting & Raving
• Ja Rules
• Rambo
• Lithuanian Lightning (Jonas Valanciunas)
• Big Science (Jonas Valanciunas)
• The Justise League
• …And Justise for All
• Tyus Stones

Miami Heat

• The Flying Death Machine
• The Heatles (LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, & Chris Bosh)
• Baby Goat Gang
• Bringin’ the Heat
• The Heat
• Wham! Bam! Thank You Ma’am!
• Bam Bam
• BAM!
• Jimmy Buckets
• Party in the USA
• Coffee King
• The Wizard of Odds
• I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butler!
• The Butler
• Butler Service
• The Butler Did It
• Do You Believe in Dragic?
• The Dragon
• Gold Dragon
• Dragic The Gathering
• Duncan Your Face
• Slam Duncan
• Duncan’ Donuts
• My PRECIOUS!!!!
• Smeagol
• Avery Day I’m Hustlin’
• Baby Goat
• Gym Class Herro
• You’re My Herro
• I can be your Herro Baby
• Tough Juice (Caron Butler)

Milwaukee Bucks

• Beast of the East
• The Buck Stops Here
• StarBucks
• Antetokounmpolypse Now
• The Greek Freak
• Get Ur Greek Freak On
• Ante Up
• Greek Freak Squad
• Freak Squad
• Freaks & Greeks
• The Alphabet
• Freaky Friday
• The Big Ragu
• The Holiday Season
• Happy Holidays
• Home for the Holiday
• One Fine holiDAY
• Holiday Inn Express
• Girl You Know It’s Jrue
• You Can’t Handle the Jrueth
• Jrue Believers
• What Would Jrue Do?
• Jrue Grit
• Jrue’s Line is it Anyway?
• Splash Mountain
• Babbling Brook
• The Forbes List
• Forbes 400
• Sparty

Minnesota Timberwolves

• The Wolf Pack
• Special K
• Just a Small Towns Girl
• KATastrophe
• Adopt A KAT
• Cool KAT
• Wild KAT
• The Big Meow
• Big KAT
• Kit KAT
• The KAT in the Hat
• The KAT-Man
• KATmandu
• KATmandoo
• KAT
• KATDogg
• RussellMania
• Russ-ian Interference
• Everyday I’m Russellin’
• On the DLo
• Run, Russell, Run
• Beauty and the Beasley
• Beasley Boys
• Pimpin’ Ain’t Beasley
• Rubio Tuesday
• La Pistola
• Pretty Ricky
• Ant-Man
• Juancho (Juan Hernangomez)

New Orleans Pelicans

• BIG EAZY
• Ragin’ Cajuns
• Angry Birds
• Dirty Birds
• Zanos
• Mount Zion
• Mt. Zion
• The Zion King
• Zion Kings
• Even Steven
• The Adams Family
• Up and Adams
• The Big Kiwi
• Adams Bomb
• Ball In the Family
• Havin’ A Ball
• Belle of the Ball
• Kick in the Balls
• Ballin’
• Ballin’ Out
• Let’s Get Redickulous
• Get Off My Lonzo
• The Bledshow
• Sleepy Reaper (Brandon Ingram)

New York Knicks

• Knickerbockers
• Knockin’ Knickerbockers
• Hoya Destroya (Patrick Ewing)
• Rolls Royce Backcourt
• Grin and Barrett
• Maple Mamba
• Orange Julius
• Too Hot to Randle
• You Can’t Randle the Truth
• Beyblade
• The Black Panther
• Black Pau
• Toppin it Off
• Obi-Wan Kenobi
• Help me, Obi One
• Hard Knox Life
• Foxy Knoxy
• Fort Knox
• Derrick Rose from the Dead
• Will You Accept This Rose?
• Every Rose has its Thorn
• Guns N’ Derrick Roses
• Bros before Rose
• Tajinator
• Secretary of Defense
• Tajy-Woo
• The French Prince (Frank Ntilikina)
• Temporary Linsanity
• Symptoms of Linsanity

Oklahoma City Thunder

• Thunder Down Under
• Bricktown
• My team is OKC
• All Hail Oklahoma
• The Fresh Prince of OKC
• Alexander the Great
• Shai You, Shai Me
• Shai Butter
• Shai Gorgeous
• SAGA
• Megalodon
• Malegone with the Wind
• Ft. Dort
• Fort Dort
• Dort Knox
• Dortnite
• Big Al
• The Dominican Stallion
• The Godfather
• Al Jefe
• Dirty Al
• Weird Al
• Average Al
• Playoff Al
• Pokumon
• The Poker
• Pokerface
• Cobra (Trevor Ariza)
• Switchblade (Trevor Ariza)
• Athreeza (Trevor Ariza)

Orlando Magic

• Ross Dress for Less
• The Human Torch
• Mo Bamba No. 5
• Mo’ Buckets
• Atom Bambas
• Okeke, Do You Love Me?
• Quiet Storm
• Mo Love Mo Problems
• Grand Theft Otto
• I’ll Take a Porter
• Quick Wash (Markelle Fultz)

Philadelphia 76ers

• Philly Phaithful
• The Philadelphia 69ers
• Simmo the Savage
• The Fresh Prince
• The Wizard of Oz
• The Wizard of Aus
• The Australian GOAT
• The Wonder from Down Under
• All About the Benjamins
• Where you Ben all my life?
• Simmonster
• Big Ben
• Outback Lebron
• Baby Bron
• Ben the Dream
• BenJammin
• Air Simmons
• Not Your Average Joel
• A friend in need is a friend Embiid
• WebEmbiid
• The Process
• Trust the Process
• JoJo
• @nal Embiids
• It Ain’t Easy Being Green
• Green Initiative
• Green New Deal
• I’m Seeing Green
• Nobody’s Smiling
• The Doc Is In
• The Doc Will See You
• Sam I Am (Sam Cassell)
• The Space Man (Sam Cassell)

Phoenix Suns

• Rising Suns
• Phoenix Rising
• Raising Arizona
• Rise Like a Phoenix
• Rising Like a Phoenix
• DeAndre the Giant
• CP3
• Baby-Faced Assassin
• Small Cannon
• The Point God
• Bridging the Gap
• Bridge Over Troubled Water
• Water Under the Bridge
• Mikal’s Bridge Game
• Noodles
• I Can Read You Like A Book
• Read You Like A Book
• Stairway to Devin
• Devin Sent
• Booker Smart
• Crack a Book
• Big Fella’
• Frank the Tank
• Moose
• Standing Out in the Crowder
• Jae Walker
• Clam Crowder
• Smooge (E’Twaun Moore)
• Uncle E (E’Twaun Moore)
• Dameology
• Stix (Jalen Smith)

Portland Trail Blazers

• Rip City
• Jail Blazers
• Boyz n the Hood
• Different On Levels the Lord Allows
• Dame Dolla
• Sub Zero
• License to Lillard
• Dame of Thrones
• Lillard Time
• Dame Time
• UnderKanter
• Enes Envy
• You Kanter Go Home Again
• Thou Shalt Not Covington Thy Neighbor’s Wife
• McCollum Like I See ’em
• Chef CJ
• The Silent Assassin (Tony Snell)
• Snellraiser
• Snells Angels
• Snell Yeah!
• Snell Ya Later
• The Fresh Prince of Snell-Air
• Melo Man
• Carmelo Out Man
• Fine and Melo
• Beanie Melo
• Melo My Mind
• Captain America
• Hoodie Melo
• The Bosnian Beast (Jusuf Nurkic)

Sacramento Kings

• All The King’s Men
• The King and I
• It’s Good To Be King
• Shaqramento Queens
• The Black Falcon (Harrison Barnes)
• Swipa the Fox
• Dora the Explorer
• De’Aaron On the Side of Caution
• De’Aaron Out My Balls
• Problem Child
• Buddy Love
• Secured the Bagley
• Wet-Piece Tyrese

San Antonio Spurs

• Can you smell what the POP is cooking?
• Disciples of Pop
• Don’t Make Me Popovich
• Big Fun
• The Twin Towers (Tim Duncan & David Robinson)
• Finding Deebo
• DeMars Rover
• Big Body
• Mustang Sally
• Baby Boy
• Dumptruck
• Big Fun (Tim Duncan)
• Duncan Donuts
• Bones (Brent Barry)

Toronto Raptors

• The Toronto Drakes
• KLow
• KLOE (Kyle Lowry Over Everything)
• The Pit Bull
• The Bulldog
• The Bulldog on Bay Street
• North Philly’s Finest
• Cobra Ky
• Kyle Soze
• ROCK ‘EM SIAK ‘AM ROBOTS
• Spicy P
• Steady Freddy
• In a VanVleet by the River
• I live in a VanVleet down by the River
• OG
• Original Gangster
• The Real OG
• The Last OG
• Slimm Duck!
• Swatterboy

Utah Jazz

• Gobert or Go Home
• Rudy Can’t Fail
• The Gobert Report
• The Everlasting GOBstopper
• The French Rejection
• The Stifle Tower
• Gobzilla
• Two Time
• Mountain Mike
• SPIDA
• Party Favors
• Personal Favors
• Sexual Favors
• Not Your Average Joe
• Headband Joe
• Joe Hablo Ingles
• Ingles All the Way
• Jingles Bells

Washington Wizards

• The Wiz Kids
• RussellMania
• Everyday I’m Russellin
• Russ-ian Interference
• Run, Russell, Run
• Russell WestBrooks Brothers
• DeniGod
• The Real Deal Beal
• The Real Beal
• Dolla Dolla Beal
• Beal or No Beal
• Beal With It
• End-All Be-al
• Beal Me In
• Hooked on a Bealing
• Sideshow Bob (Robin Lopez)
• Robin & Stealin’
• Cassius Winston Churchill
• Cash

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