The Deep 3 Podcast - We Graded The Funniest NBA Slander Nicknames | TD3 Clips

Episode Date: December 9, 2025

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We are going to grade the best NBA Twitter slander nicknames that we've ever seen over the years. We're getting disrespectful? We're reacting to disrespect. We didn't make any of these up. We're not co-signing them per se. We're disrespectful by proxy. Yeah, okay. We're allowing disrespect to enter our radius.

But we didn't make these up. We are simply going to grade them based on how funny they are, how accurate they are, how iconic they are. Whatever it means to us, the best slander nicknames in modern NBA history. Starting off. First up, we got Paul George. pandemic P podcast P and way off P

whichever one you choose how do you feel about the P nicknames Which one is the worst Here right now I think I think Playoff P is the is the worst

Because that Because that was his prime Yeah And he he said Like he kind of called him Some Playoff P Yeah which is how we got Way off P

Yeah so way off P I remember that happened Exactly in the bubble There was a moment where he took a side three And at the top of fucking backboard way off

oh man I hear it right now podcast P was ahead of its time but not everybody with the podcast has made fun of for us that kind of lost this luster Pandemic P was pretty funny in the bubble this is this is three great movies right here

this is like Rocky 1, 2 and 3 right these are all all hits no misses all hits no misses iconic iconic film things that are going to be remembered in culture forever I'm going

just in the package right we can debate which one is 1 2 and 3 The packaging is 10 out of 10. Yeah. Yep. A plus for Paul George. Paul George Slander gets an A plus in all regards. We got a power rank the best Paul George Slander nicknames.

Not my goat, man. That's its own video. Okay. Next up. Hey now. We got Julius Randall being dubious handle. It sounds so stupid. This is great.

This is amazing. Dubious handle, the guy who over dribbles too much, just spins it to nothing. This is perfect. Yeah, this peaked a couple of years ago before he repaired reputation alongside Anthony Edwards he used to be dubious handle He used to

Listen, it used to be scary But I got to give him some I have to give him some grace Of course you're going to be dribbling everywhere You have Alfred Payton on the wind And then you got R.J. Barry Just screaming Right here, bro

Your handle would be dubious too Exactly So you know what He broke through from this He's no longer dubious handle For now So it can't give it an A plus It's no longer apt

But man was it creative in the moment I'm still giving it to B plus. In the moment, in the moment, it charted. Top 10, right? Hasn't aged as well, but in, people were still dancing to it in the street. So I'm going B plus. It was a nice moment.

Dubious handle. I love this. Next up. 18 and 8 for Evan Mobley, also known as AT&T, the newest addition to the slander lexicon. Whoa, well, put me on an AT&T in Mothaloup. It sounds like 18 and 8.

Oh. I don't really fuck about that. 18 and 8 is a funny year. 18 and A. It's all reliable. He will give you exactly 18 points and 8 rebounds every game. No more or no less. Yeah,

I think I like this because it serves multiple groups of people, right? The nerds get the numbers in 18 and 8. If you are just a casual, you can hear AT&T. You know that brand. Now I'm here for you. Right? This is, it very much is for the people, by the people. I like this a lot.

But also, 18 and 8 is a very respectable stat line. That's what I'm saying. We're not mean enough. This is real, is this real slander? Yes, because we think that he's going to be like this generation. One of the best big men of this generation, but also he's just an 18-8 type guys. I don't know. Yeah, I'm going like C-plus.

It's funny because-A-N-A is slander. This is adjacent to call him Derek Favors. This is calling him regular. 18-N-Aid is a very okay starter. 18-N-A-8 is nice, though. Derek Favis never sniffed that. I got to look at Derek Pater. Listen, stat inflation is very.

rampant today. Derek favor's cool little 14 and 7 is basically 18 and 8 today. 18 and a isn't nothing to write home about in the modern NBA. Hey, listen, he might be Derek Faber is 16 and 8. Oh, no. They were right. Oh, no. Okay. It's very accurate, but I'm with you. I think if we're going to, we're going to have a slander slanderous nickname. It does have to be a little bit meaner. I'll go C plus here. You can see. It's solid. I think it's pretty funny. The fact that like you are just like good, not great, it is like a little better than it sounds. No one's ever been bullied to this degree. Exactly. Like for being just decent.

Yeah. This is like bullying somebody because like they tie their, someone ties their shoes and they're a little too eager to do it like, it's my fucking tying his shoes. Yeah, exactly. That's just funny. This guy's grabbing rebounds and being a solid third option. Dork. Look at this dumbass studying, bro. Yeah. Get him bullied for something that's mad regular is

hilarious. And this is the NBA equivalent. We're just mean, bro. You're just doing your job? You clocking in on time. Next up, Westbrook. Iconic. I mean, obviously, it's an A plus. He was ready to tear down countries about this. Yeah, he was, man.

He would have ended bloodlines if he had the authority to. You have no idea how many fans he walked up and approached you in every city he's touched in the fucking league. That's the best part is he will, he is susceptible to be rage-baited with his name. Yes. It has the most effectiveness. I guarantee you I could pull up a 30-minute compilation of him approaching Rainer. fans right and i bet at least one of them said westbrook yeah this will get him going this is an a plus yeah this is when it comes to talking about every NBA fans like if we if us as NBA fans had

a Spotify and saw how often we use nicknames this would be top 10 for everyone it has to be yeah yeah yeah this is this is one of the forefathers of slatter nicknames this loki started at all so smooth you don't have to be overly creative it just fits right in it's almost like it's destiny I know what else makes it great. If you say his name too fast, that sounds like Westbrook. I've been accused to say Westbrook a lot of times.

It wasn't on purpose. That's so good about it. Skip started this, right? Skip Bayless? Probably, I don't know, dude. I don't know. I don't know. I feel like he might have.

Safe assumption. Maybe. But yes, A plus. Either way, A plus. Hall of Fame nickname. Play very badly for Avery Badly. I never heard of this before my life, man. This is a very niche NBA Twitter one.

It was like, or Twitter. Avery Bradley, more like play very badly. That's the way you're supposed to say. It's like you post this and you have like the scene from the Joker where he's like reading out of exactly. It's ironic, but in a funny way. I don't like this.

If you say it five times, I'll laugh. But the first time I'm like, come on. We could do better. More like play very badly. It's kind of good. I'm going to give this a deed. Am I right? Say it one time.

It's like, ah. You might get me for a second, but it's only one timer. Can't reuse this. How often do you see a player like Avery Bradley gets slandered? That makes it unique. That makes it great. Yeah. What does he have to do to get slandered?

I think this happens when he, this happened when he was a grizzly, I think, stinking it up. I think that's what. This is originally, this is a very niche NBA Twitter thing. You got to be like a sicko in the nerd NBA Twitter streets to know what this is from. But he played very badly. Damn. I'm going D-plus on this one. Ah, haters.

You guys aren't nerdy enough. Next up, Anthony Day to Day-Davis. Oh, man. this is a plus it is a plus it i got PTSD right now this is part of his reputation yep he cannot miss a game for the rest of his career without being called anthony day to day david i saw this and i got to shiver up my goddamn spine the amount of time i spent in the discord streets arguing for anthony davis's right to be a superstar as a lakers fan this nickname haunts me this era haunts me he was the most slandered player in the NBA by far from 2021 through 2023

but that being said A plus Hall of Fame Yeah and honestly This is not even slander Like this is literally the truth This is Bible because if you look at his game Locks or the history of his fucking career It's like oh shit

Three games here, two games there Missing a couple of years It's an observation Like oh shit man You're right This is And the crazy part about this is This is the main album

You forgot the deluxe version Of street close That's because you're impatient Next up Demard or Frozen Man, this is bad, man This is OG, the old one Yeah

I don't think any time Anytime there's a nickname Where somebody's slandering you Because you are not clutch Because you fold under pressure It works It's funny Yeah

It's like the lights are too bright for this guy He can't handle anything Yeah And it's like Every unique name It rhymes with some shit It's good Yeah

And for every player That we've talked about so far You can see between the lines And be like Yeah this nickname Is a little bit It's drag and slander No this is

this is legitimately true as well bro he does not show up he never did show up at any of the at any point that's a good point a lot of these guys kind of like at some point disproved the narrative yeah he never really did never got down he never had the chance he never had to have an iconic player i mean he had the chance he just never could do it though yeah they never came together at the right time and the right team so he was going to do it and then they should no he was gonna buy NBC at that being said if it works it's got to be an a plus Next time. Oh, my God.

3-6 Mafia for LeBron before 2020 when he got his fourth ring. Terrible nickname. It's not even fucking funny. We're joking about the mafia here. No, he did. I'm not even, I'm not even defended right now. The mafia is no joke. No, nothing to joke.

about, brad. Why are we playing this putting this spin on LeBron? What are we

doing right now? This is terrible. Three six mafia? This is a hilarious thing at the moment. I had to fight

against it. I had to pretend it wasn't funny in 2017 when I was defending my king's honor

in high school and haters when he just get Bayless calmness and run with it. I had to

pretend it wasn't funny at all. It's pretty goddamn hilarious. Is this a playoff

of a song or something like that too? I'm glad you I was like, yes, 3-6 mafia is a rap group. Fuck that.

Well, are you serious? Fuck, yeah, fuck them guys. You said, yeah, this isn't funny at all, so fuck JuC.J. This is pretty good. This is Skip Bayless's creation, right? I have no idea. Actually, no, this one wasn't him. This was NBA Twitter.

This was a name for especially LeBron fans. I think it's really originated from the Curry fans versus LeBron fans war on Twitter. Yeah, I don't know who started it. I can't give it a plus because at the end of the day you are saying you only got three rings like that's crazy and he got for it so you put it to bed but it is it is very funny i am going to give it in a though my king is so special he's retiring funny nicknames you can't even call him anymore i haven't heard this in five years yeah if you could have like the and that's the one thing that any jordan fan can say it's like oh you have this losing record in the finals if you can make it make it funny make a make a play on it you did your job when comes to being funny thank you got it this is a plus i'll give it a solid b just because we we have better lebrot names on the horizon next up kevin durcant this is tough little knee slaver yeah this is tough this is definitely a joker meme yeah yeah this is very true especially before the warriors days i remember people were calling him not kevin der kant necessarily but they were just you know the beat writers over in their okay

see were giving him fucking hell and then once he choked once again he didn't he blow a 3-1 lead to the Warriors of course he did oh man and shot terribly during it i can only read this in skate belis's voice him sitting up on table more like kevin dork cats i can only imagine him saying this is uh not a necessarily because it's kind of it's easy too easy yeah solid c plus it's a cool addition maybe b minus it's solid yeah it's like an entry level slander exactly this is baby's first slander name Yeah. A'sin' kid.

Because he has no jump shot. Because he got no J. Okay. Okay. This is like this is before our time. An oldie, but a goodie. This is incredible. Aeson kid.

You know what? I think the fact that like just saying Acing Kid, you might be like, wait, what's this landing? It's a good setup. And you make it way and then like, because he has no J. And I'm not going to lie. It worked.

It just got me. You had to process it. Exactly. And that's the best. It has an inherent setup for a punchline. This is an A-plus. This is barbershop humor, legendary stuff. Yeah, it doesn't go too deep at all.

It's just like lighthearted play. This is A. I can imagine an uncle saying, well, that's Acing kid. And I'm like seven years old. He haze me with it because he got O.J. A plus. World B flat for Kyrie Irving.

This is a. treacherous time for Kyrieffins. Most of his career has been a treacherous time for Kyrieffins. It has been. But you know what? The past 18 months has really been the only chill time.

And it's not their fault. It's not their fault. But this is hilarious. This is fantastic. I am going to say, I'm going to give this a B plus because I don't think, I don't think it's as iconic

as the other ones, but it is. It's also too funny to be that offensive. It's just hilarious. And he did so much other stuff after you got slander for that the world being flat stuff is like old news. It's not even the most slanderable Kyrie thing anymore.

Now it's just like open sesame. It's open game to be made fun of. He was on a run back then, man. When he comes to being able to be slandered, he made it so easy. They hated him. Next up. Street clothes. Yes.

The love version. This is the one that I like. Everybody likes, everybody likes the top hit. The real deep cut, the real album cut. This is what I like. This is Charles Barclays. This is on Charles Barclays. This is on Charles Barclays greatest highlight real.

Yes. I'm going A plus With that being said I hit it every single time I heard this on TV It brought me nothing But rage

As a Lakers fan I'm going F-minus And that is why it's A-plus Because it hurt Every single time It got the people going And the people Are in me

It rage baited me To high hell Damn man It was I just see him there On the sidelines Sweater on Chain

Why you got a sweater It's 80 degree What's going on man They keep it cold In the arena man Ah true You didn't see The Drumpool video

I did, you're right I understand it now Next up La bum for LeBron Iconic Skip Bayless legendary name Is this the start Of the

Like putting the LES Probably is the most commonly used one But we can let the stand in For any la nickname Oh Any Lill name A plus plus plus right This arguably might be the greatest

It's so easy So lighthearted It still hurts too Gets every LeBron fan Angry and irritated I really do hate though I hate it so much because it's the stupidest thing in the world. To just put L.E.

in front of phrases, sentences. You know what's funny though? But it works every time. It's stupid. It's very childish. I'm sure people have been shot over let nicknames, though. I'm sure LeBron fans have fought back with Lepenry because it's an effective rage base. It's shot over saying you're a Lefraud.

What the fuck? You know that video's going to buy right now? Pull in front of the precinct. Do you go right now? what did he say he said I ruined my life you and your life

I forgot what he said he said we can record it I'll throw my life away you throw your life away that's the energy around love nickname LeBron fans you know what I'm talking about

no he said you could throw your wife away I'll throw my life away what the fuck I'll show you I think I have Oh my goodness It's the funniest

This is the exact energy The Bronn fans had over this I've seen Fisda Cups on Twitter Bum, Laforn six Laforns I don't want to meet nowhere Pull up in front of my house

Matter of fact You ain't even got to pull up in front of my house Pull up in front of the motherfucking precinct And let's bang out Right down the block You know where is that You studied my whole neighborhood And let's bang out

And let's do it on camera I throw my life away And you throw your life Right now Right now Right now And if you win I'll make sure I got like

$70,000 in my pocket If you blinding me, you can take the money Right now I hate you, nigga, let's die That's the best part I hate you, let's die Is your first time That's so good

I didn't see it before You said I hate you, let's bang out in front of the parking lot In front of Kmart 70,000 my pocket You can take it What? Matter of fact, pull the

Precinct We can put it on camera I thought my life away you throw your life away I hate you let's die let's die I've never seen that in my life

that's how Tylo was talking about Chris Paul All right A plus Let's die Run and dunk man for Yannis A plus This was so true at a certain point in time Yo this is the definition

of slander Because of course and it of not being true, but it was true to a degree, especially back in what was the year, 2019 with the Toronto Raptors just set up the wall. A none yon-a-cons do you know what it's going to do about it. This is a funny, funny slander nickname because it's not even about a negative thing.

He just can't be stopped from running a donkey. So they're like, oh, sure, you're 30 points for game, are efficient, our dominant, our winning championships. But is it fun? No. This is like the Shea slender now. Exactly.

But I do, I do like you because anytime you come up with a nickname, anytime you are a creative, you just want to see your work affect the world. And the fact that, like, you have running dunk, man, the fact that James Harder himself was on an interview and was like, see, I actually have to be skilled. Like, I wish I could just run and dunk the ball.

Like, you see that and you're like, man, we really change the world. This is crazy. I kind of can't believe we'd let James Hardin get away with saying that. He's lucky he was still dominant that time. If he said that, like, when he wasn't the guy, we would have been like, boo, you lose her. I mean, he was at the top of the world.

that at that time. They wouldn't, he wouldn't have sat down for an interview. Nobody would have wanted to talk to him if he wasn't the guy. If he was six or James Arden? Yeah. What makes us even more special, too, is that now we coined this phrase and turned it into a legit phrase, took it away from Yonis and just call it someone that, call someone this whenever they just have no bag.

Yeah, anybody that can't shoot John Morant, running dunk, man. Yeah. Next up, so A plus. Next up. Oh, that's the last one. Bam. No, let's keep going. I got no more slander.

Any honorable mentions you want to throw in? honorable mentions fullback dive is a good moment too for yannis full back dive is nasty work what the hell that was funny