Damian Lillard called him Idaho. A friend of his told me one of their high school coaches calls him BFB for Big Fn Blake
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Bryant Reeves
There was also a mid major guy nicknamed Big Continent.
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How about The Potato Masher?
I like Idaho, as in “Way to go Idaho!” -Toy Story
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Why the obsession to give nicknames to people who 99% of the board will never meet or know in real life? It’s odd.
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Good point, S-Dawg
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Additionally, doesn’t forcing nicknames automatically make them lame? Isn’t part of a cool nickname that it has to come naturally?
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Yes you think it was planned that I become the Black Dragon? Nah i earned that and it came from a teammate
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Maybe because it’s fun? CTB is going to ignore 100% of our advice on starters, playing time, strategy, and offensive schemes, but I have fun reading and writing about it.
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I thought you were going to say, "CTB is going to ignore 100% of our advice on starters, playing time, strategy, and offensives schemes, but he is going to without a doubt follow our lead when assigning players nicknames."
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I earned Salty in the Navy. But they had a field day trying out other nicknames first. I’m glad that was the one that stuck. Also, went by “Ike” later on. I can think of worse Presidents.
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A missed opportunity. 
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My ideas:
Blake
Buchanan
B
BB (or bb)
Buke
Double B
B-dubs
Blake the Snake
The Cannon
The Cour d’alene cannon
Or something out of left field… like Steve
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That’s the one.
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Oh snap the B is finally revealed!
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Idaho… nope,Youdaho
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@rushdacote what do your brasilian friends call you? Brasilians love calling dudes the place they are from
You get gringo or americano?
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If you let the players come up with the nickname it’ll end up being something terrible like “Fish.” We have to preempt that.
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November 2023: Jerry Ratcliffe reports that the team is calling the incoming freshmen ‘Potato’ and ‘Gertie’
(I’d be okay with Spud though. Spud weBB)
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