Best Fantasy Basketball Team Names

The Best Fantasy Basketball Team Names for the 2021 Season

The first important decision you face this basketball season is crafting the BEST Fantasy Basketball Team Name! These names make the game fun, but this task can seem daunting trying to come up with a creative name. Don’t worry I got you covered.

Some of these names are clever & funny. Some are dirty & crude. 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 Names for Every NBA Team broken down by all the franchises 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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Funny Fantasy Basketball Team Names

These fantasy basketball team names are ideal to use BEFORE your draft.

• The Greatest Team of All Time
• Nothing But Net
• Nothing But Netflix (So appropriate for 2021)
• Hoop! There It Is
• Mamba Mentality
• Jumping through Hoops
• Looking To Score Tonight
• Blood, Sweat, & Beers
• The Drunken Dribbler
• The Bench Mob
• Sharp Shooters
• Weekend Warriors
• Jay-Z’s My Agent
• Foul Trouble
• Hot Shots
• Geeks N Sneaks
• Our Boss Thinks We’re Working
• Quaranteam
• Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!
• The Usual Suspects
• The Unusual Suspects
• Easy Money
• Air Ballers
• Dream Team
• Bankrupt And Bored (So appropriate after this Pandemic)
• Hoops!…I Did It Again
• Great Balls of Fire
• Big Ballers
• Buzzer Beaters
• This Is My Day Job
• Too Poor to Golf
• Bound 2 Win
• Want To Be Like Mike
• Be Careful What You Swish For
• SkyForce
• Secretary of Defense
• Prime Time Players
• Ball In The Family
• Chasing Points

• Shooting Stars
• Show Me the Money
• The Defenders
• Space Jam 2
• Rimshots
• Can’t Touch This
• Fast & Furious
• Gym Rat Pack
• Baller Shot Caller
• On Da Rebound
• The Benchwarmers
• Bricklayers
• Three The Hardaway
• Backyard Ballers
• The Hot Shots
• Backboard Shattering Dreams
• Temporary Linsanity
• Symptoms of Linsanity
• Double Dribblers
• Dribblers & Droolers
• Basket Ballers
• Basket Hounds
• This is as close as I’ll get to my Dreams
• The Crush
• The Land of Misfit Toys
• Basket Brawlers
• One Shot Wonders
• Slam Drunk
• Rimming Me Softly
• Back Court Violators
• Swaggy P
• F#cked Around and Got A Triple-Double
• Bring Back Short Shorts

For the Ladies…

• Rockettes
• Hoops!…I Did It Again
• Lady Luck
• Half Court Hotties
• Angry Soccer Mom
• Mile High Heels
• Femme Fatales
• Girls on Fire
• She Got Game
• Playing with the Boys
• I Thought Men Were Supposed To Be Good At Basketball
• Girl You Know It’s Jrue
• Always on Top
• Daring Divas
• Big Girls Don’t Kawhi
• She’s the Man (Thank You Taylor Swift)
• Female Force
• The Monarchs
• Brow Chicka Brow Brow
• Panties & Penalties
• Tits, Clits, & Bricks
• A Women Who Scores
• The Tallest Girl You Know

• Victorious Secret
• Teaching Men How To Play
• Rainbow Warriors
• Queens of the Court
• That Girl That Beat You
• Back That Pass Up
• Cinderella’s Ball
• Belle of the Ball
• Destructive Divas
• Soup-a-Stars
• Just a Small Towns Girl
• The Three-Pointer Sisters
• Lady Cougars
• All About That Pass
• I Don’t Only Suck at Fantasy…
• Big O
• Super Femme
• Get Ovary It
• Play Like a Guy
• Aggressive Unicorns
• Busty Brawlers
• Dame of Thrones
• Fantasy Goddess

For the Guys…

• He Got Game
• The Gentleman’s Club
• The Bad Boys
• Check My Balls
• Goodfellas
• The Untouchaballs
• Stache Brothers
• Stache Bros.
• Playing this to Ignore my Wife
• Golden Boy
• Ball Busters
• Balls to the Wall
• Wet Dream Team
• Fresh Prince of Balls in the Air
• I Don’t Always Score, but when I do it’s playing Fantasy Basketball!
• Bosom Buddies
• Freeballers
• Average Joes
• The Lord of the Rings
• Looking to Score

• All The King’s Men
• Looking to Score, with your Mom
• Dribble My Nizzle
• White Men Can’t Jump
• White Men Can Jump
• Da Ball Hog
• Mister Swisher
• The Love Making Machine
• Pippen Ain’t Easy
• Bros before Rose
• Don’t Drop The Soap
• Kick in the Balls
• Crouching Hippo Hidden Penis
• If I Win You Have To Touch It
• Too Fat to Play in Real Life
• U Mad Bro?
• De’Aaron Out My Balls

NBA Fantasy Basketball Names

AFTER your fantasy basketball draft is complete you can really start to get creative! Change your team name to reflect the specific players on your roster. This list is sorted in alphabetical order by last name.

Precious Achiuwa

• Jay-Z’s My Agent
• My PRECIOUS!!!!
• Smeagol

Steven Adams

• Even Steven
• The Adams Family
• Up and Adams
• Adams Bomb
• Aquaman
• The Big Kiwi

Giannis Antetokounmpo

• Antetokounmpolypse Now
• The Greek Freak
• Get Ur Greek Freak On
• Greek Freak Squad
• Freaks & Greeks
• Freak Squad
• Ante Up
• The Alphabet
• Freaky Friday

Carmelo Anthony

• Carmelo Out Man
• Melo Man
• Fine and Melo
• Beanie Melo
• Melo My Mind
• Captain America
• Hoodie Melo
• The Patriot

OG Anunoby

• OG
• Original Gangster
• The Real OG
• The Last OG

LaMelo Ball

• Jay-Z’s My Agent
• Melo My Mind
• Fine and Melo
• Ballin’
• Ballin’ Out
• Ball In the Family
• On the Ball
• Havin’ A Ball
• Belle of the Ball
• Kick in the Balls
• BBB
• Big Baller Brand
• Ball So Hard
• Air Ballers
• AmazeBalls
• Blue Balls

Lonzo Ball

• Get Off My Lonzo
• Zo
• Ball In the Family
• On the Ball
• Havin’ A Ball
• Balls Deep
• Belle of the Ball
• Kick in the Balls
• Ball So Hard
• Air Ballers
• AmazeBalls
• Blue Balls
• Ballin’
• Ballin’ Out
• Big Baller Brand
• BBB

Bradley Beal

• 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
• Beal Street Blues

Patrick Beverley

• Beverley Hills
• Beverley Hillbillies
• Mr. 94 Feet

Bismack Biyombo

• Dropping the F-Biyombo
• Atomic Biyombos
• Big Smack
• B Smack
• Biznation
• Big Bizness
• La Pantera
• Black Panther
• The Acrobatic from the Democratic
• Master
• Big Mac

Bojan Bogdanovic

• Big Shot Bogey
• Bogey
• Double Bogey
• Triple Bogey
• Airbnb
• Bad to the Bojan

Bol Bol

• Smokin’ a Bol
• Raging Bol
• Give Me the Bol
• We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Bol
• Bol Movement
• Irritable Bol Syndrome

Devin Booker

• I Can Read You Like A Book
• Read You Like A Book
• Stairway to Devin
• Devin Sent
• Booker Smart
• Crack a Book

Mikal Bridges

• Bridging the Gap
• Bridge Over Troubled Water
• Water Under the Bridge
• Mikal’s Bridge Game
• Noodles

Jaylen Brown

• Brown Eyed Girl
• What Can Brown do for You?
• A Jaylen Brown Christmas
• Unsinkable Jaylen Brown

Jimmy Butler

• 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

DeMarcus Cousins

• Boogie
• Boogie Nights
• Boogie Men
• Up Jump the Boogie

Jae Crowder

• Standing Out in the Crowder
• Jae Walker
• Clam Crowder

Stephen Curry

• The Golden Boy
• Chef Curry
• All You Can Shoot Curry
• Chef BoyArdee
• Steph BoyArdee
• Fast & Curryous
• Bi-Curryous
• Curry the Team On my Back
• 2 Fast 2 Curryous
• Catch Curry if you can…
• Curry Up and Shoot
• Curry in a Hurry
• Steph Infection
• Baby Faced Assassin

Anthony Davis

• The Brow
• Bow to the Brow
• Brow Beaters
• Brow Shakalaka
• Brow Chicka Brow Brow
• Brow Chicka Wow Wow
• Unibrows Anonymous
• Davistated
• A.D.

Luka Doncic

• 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 Mania
• Luka Magic

Andre Drummond

• Beats by Andre
• DeAndre the Giant
• Bang the Drummond
• Little Drummond Boy
• Andre Way You Want It

Kevin Durant

• Easy Money Sniper
• The Durantula
• Slim Reaper
• Fear The Slim Reaper
• Durant Durant
• The Second Coming
• The Snake
• The Servant
• Stairway to Kevin

Joel Embiid

• The Process
• Trust the Process
• Not Your Average Joel
• A Friend Embiid
• A friend in need is a friend Embiid
• WebEmbiid
• @nal Embiids
• JoJo

Tacko Fall

• Tacko Tuesday
• Tacko Tuuuuuuuuuuesday!
• Tacko Bell

De’Aaron Fox

• Swipa the Fox
• Dora the Explorer
• De’Aaron On the Side of Caution
• De’Aaron Out My Balls

Marc Gasol

• Better Call Gasol
• Gasol I Need
• Gasol In the Family
• Gasol Train
• Big Spain
• The Big Burrito

Paul George

• PG-13
• Keep it PG
• Rated PG
• Rated PG-13
• Better Call Paul
• Playoff P
• Young Trece
• Curious Paul George
• By George!

Rudy Gobert

• Gobert or Go Home
• The Gobert Report
• The Everlasting GOBstopper
• The French Rejection
• The Stifle Tower
• Gobzilla
• Two Time
• Rudy Can’t Fail

Danny Green

• Jay-Z’s My Agent
• It’s Not Easy Being Green
• It Ain’t Easy Being Green
• Green Initiative
• Green New Deal
• I’m Seeing Green
• I’m Seeing Green $$$

Draymond Green

• Everybody Love Draymond
• Beats by Draymond
• The Dancing Bear
• DrayMagic
• Day-Day
• It’s Not Easy Being Green
• It Ain’t Easy Being Green
• Green Initiative
• Green New Deal
• I’m Seeing Green
• I’m Seeing Green $$$

Blake Griffin

• Wake & Blake
• Shake ‘n Blake
• Blake Superior
• Don’t Go Blakin’ My Heart
• Blake Out!
• Blake Gryffindor
• Blaking Bad

James Harden

• Go Harden the Paint
• The Beard
• Fear the Beard
• The Big Beard
• The Man Behind the Beard
• Ice Cold Beard
• Doin’ It Harden Fast
• Harden a Strip Club
• Rock Harden
• Harden’ Slow
• Massive Harden
• Harden the Interruption
• James Gives Me a Harden
• I’m Harden Horny
• The Raging Hardens
• El Chapo

Gordon Hayward

• Carry on, my Hayward Son
• G-Time
• G-Money
• H2O
• The Dunkster

Tyler Herro

• Baby Goat
• Gym Class Herro
• You’re My Herro
• Herro Ball
• I can be your Herro Baby

Aaron Holiday

• Aarogenous Zone
• Aaron Out My Balls
• Aaron on the Side of Caution
• The Holiday Season
• Happy Holidays
• Home for the Holiday
• Perfect for the Holiday
• One Fine holiDAY
• Gone on Holiday
• Holiday Inn Express

Jrue Holiday

• Jrue Believers
• Girl You Know It’s Jrue
• You Can’t Handle the Jrueth
• What Would Jrue Do?
• Too Good To Be Jrue
• Jrue Grit
• Jrue or False
• Jrue’s Line is it Anyway?
• The Holiday Season
• Happy Holidays
• Home for the Holiday
• Perfect for the Holiday
• One Fine holiDAY
• Gone on Holiday
• Holiday Inn Express

Justin Holiday

• Justin Time
• The Holiday Season
• Happy Holidays
• Home for the Holiday
• Perfect for the Holiday
• One Fine holiDAY
• Gone on Holiday
• Holiday Inn Express

Kevin Huerter

• 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

De’Andre Hunter

• De’Andre Big Game Hunter
• Beats by De’Andre
• The Hunter Games
• Hunting for Points
• On the Hunt
• In the Hunt
• De’Andre the Giant
• DeAndre Way You Want It

Serge Ibaka

• Power Serge
• Storm Serge
• Serge Protector
• Ibaka To The Future
• Serge I-Blok-Ya
• Baby Got Ibaka
• Ibaka Flocka Flame
• Air Congo

Kyrie Irving

• Jay-Z’s My Agent
• Flat Earth All-Stars
• Kyriediculous
• Cobra Ky
• Cobra Kyrie
• Kyrie on the Loose
• The Ankletaker
• Uncle Drew
• Kyrie On Baggage
• Kyrie On My Wayward Son
• Kyrie Soze

LeBron James

• King James
• The King and I
• It’s Good To Be King
• All the King’s Men
• L.A. Bron
• The Chosen One
• James Gang
• James of Thrones
• Double Lebrontondre
• Taco Tuesday
• Brains and LeBron
• The Big Lebronski
• 99 Problems, But LeBron Ain’t One
• LeBong James
• LeBrontourage
• The L-Train
• The Akron Hammer

Nikola Jokic

• Joker, Smoker, Mile High Toker
• Jokic on You
• Can’t Take a Jokic
• Ain’t No 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)

DeAndre Jordan

• DeAndre the Giant
• Beats by DeAndre
• The Jordan Rules
• DeAndre Way You Want It

Enes Kanter

• UnderKanter
• Enes Envy
• You Kanter Go Home Again

Zach LaVine

• LaVine Large
• LaVine La Vida Loca
• LaVine Dangerously
• LaVine on a Prayer

Kawhi Leonard

• Kawhi’s Middle Finger
• Kawhiet Riot
• The Human Avatar
• Sugar K
• Kawhi of the Tiger
• Kawhi Myself to Sleep
• Kawhi Me a River
• Kawhi So Serious?
• Kawhi You Gotta Be So Rude?
• Big Girls Don’t Kawhi
• Kawhaii Five-0
• The Klaw
• Kawhi’s Laugh
• KAWHI AY AY AY!!!

Damian Lillard

• Different On Levels the Lord Allows
• Dame Dolla
• Sub Zero
• License to Lillard
• Dame of Thrones
• Lillard Time
• Dame Time

Kevon Looney

• The Loonatic
• The Loone Ranger
• Looney Tunes

Kevin Love

• 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
• The Love Train
• Don’t LOVE That
• Love Triangle Offense
• Stairway to Kevin
• From Russia with Love

Kyle Lowry

• KLow
• KLOE (Kyle Lowry Over Everything)
• The Pit Bull
• The Bulldog
• The Bulldog on Bay Street
• North Philly’s Finest
• Cobra Ky
• Kyle Soze

Ja Morant

• Young King
• Moranting & Raving
• Ja Rules

Jamal Murray

• The Blue Arrow
• There’s Something About Murray
• 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?

Victor Oladipo

• Hail to the Victor
• Victory is Mine
• The Gates of Victory
• The Black Panther
• Home Dipo
• Home Oladipo

Alexei Pokusevski

• Pokumon
• The Poker
• Pokerface

Kristaps Porzingis

• 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

Julius Randle

• Orange Julius
• Too Hot to Randle
• You Can’t Randle the Truth
• Beyblade
• The Black Panther
• Black Pau

Duncan Robinson

• Duncan Your Face
• Slam Duncan
• Duncan’ Donuts
• Here’s to You, Mr. Robinson
• Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood
• Meet the Robinsons

D’Angelo Russell

• RussellMania
• Russ-ian Interference
• Everyday I’m Russellin’
• Run, Russell, Run
• On the DLo

Collin Sexton

• 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

Ben Simmons

• 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?
• Bend Over
• Bend Over & Take It
• Bent Over
• Simmonster
• Big Ben
• Outback Lebron
• Baby Bron
• Ben the Dream
• BenJammin
• Air Simmons

Marcus Smart

• Smart Guys
• Wolverine
• Smarf
• Hound Dog
• The Cobra

Tony Snell

• The Silent Assassin
• Snell Yeah!
• Snell Ya Later

Jayson Tatum

• Temper Tatum
• Tatum Tots

Klay Thompson

• 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

Obi Toppin

• Toppin it Off
• Obi-Wan Kenobi
• Help me, Obi One

Karl-Anthony Towns

• 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

Myles Turner

• 100 Myles and Runnin’
• Eight Myles
• Myles to Go Before We Win
• Myles Away from a Championship
• Myles High Club
• Myles to Go Before I Sleep
• I Would Walk 500 Myles
• A Real Page Turner

Nikola Vucevic

• Vooch
• Vucci Mane
• In the Nikola of Time
• Nikola at Nite
• Big Dick Nikola
• Deja Vucevic
• Old Saint Nikola (Perfect for the Holidays)

John Wall

• Balls to the Wall
• Big Wall in Texas
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• You’re My WonderWall
• The Wall
• Another Brick in John Wall
• Mexico will pay for John Wall
• If these bathroom Walls could talk

Russell Westbrook

• RussellMania
• Everyday I’m Russellin
• Russ-ian Interference
• Run, Russell, Run
• Russell WestBrooks Brothers
• Brodie

Andrew Wiggins

• Maple Jordan
• Mr. Fantastic
• Two-way Wiggs
• Heir Canada
• Gettin’ Wiggy Wit’ It
• Wiggy Wonka’s Maple Factory
• Wiggins Out
• Junior Jordan
• The Prospect
• A&W Root Beer
• The Wigginator
• Wiggy
• Wiggs
• Maple
• Ender

Lou Williams

• Sweet, Sweet Lou
• Sweet Lou
• Lemon Pepper Lou
• Skip 2 My Lou

Zion Williamson

• BIG EAZY
• Zanos
• Mount Zion
• Mt. Zion
• Keep Your Zion the Prize
• The Zion King
• Zion Kings
• Big Z

Trae Young

• Ice Trae
• Forever Young
• Peachtree Prodigy
• TrAeTL
• Replay Trae

Good Player Themed Fantasy Basketball Team Name Combos

After your fantasy basketball draft you can change your team name to reflect a combination of players on your roster!

• Boogie Towns Productions (DeMarcus Cousins & Karl-Anthony Towns)
• Ball In The Family (Lonzo Ball & LaMelo Ball)
• BBB (Lonzo Ball & LaMelo Ball)
• Big Baller Brand (Lonzo Ball & LaMelo Ball)
• The Holiday Season (Jrue Holiday & Justin Holiday & Aaron Holiday)
• Malcolm in the Middleton (Malcolm Brogdon & Khris Middleton)
• Brooks & Dunn (Dillon Brooks & Kris Dunn)
• Young Love (Trae Young & Kevin Love)
• Splash Brothers (Stephen Curry & Klay Thompson)
• Curry Klay Pot (Stephen Curry & Klay Thompson)
• Green Curry (Draymond Green & Steph Curry)
• Hamptons 5 (Draymond Green, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, & Andre Iguodala)
• Death Lineup (Draymond Green, Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Andre Iguodala, & Harrison Barnes)
• Super Death Lineup (Draymond Green, Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant, Andre Iguodala, & Harrison Barnes)
• Stache Brothers (Steven Adams & Enes Kanter)
• Stache Bros. (Steven Adams & Enes Kanter)
• Bobi & Tobi (Boban Marjanovic & Tobias Harris)
• Lob City (Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, & DeAndre Jordan)
• Robin Hood (Robin Lopez & Rodney Hood)
• SexLand (Collin Sexton & Darius Garland)
• The Rise of SexLand (Collin Sexton & Darius Garland)

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