Didn’t someone call him Maple Mamba in one of those posts from the social media team?
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I’m going with Chicken Sharma, because it’s awesome, just like him.
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I’m hoping his nickname is Ish so we can just call him Swish Sharma.
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All these are good though I still like Instant Karma (as in the 3-point dagger). My nickname can’t be that great if I have to explain it in parentheses.
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“Swish ish”
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I think it was warley
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We’re proven to suck at nicknames. Just stop. We were once blessed with a player named Ben Vander Plas and couldn’t come up with a suitable nickname for heaven’s sake. Let it go.
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More like HoozADowner
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What’s the best nickname we’ve come up with in recent years. The Florist from @chavlicek15 was at least kinda cute. Anything else?
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Fish Boy
Worlds softest 5
The Baby Giraffe 
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X of course
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Isaac squared RIP 
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Elijah squared though 
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@HoozGotNext is right. I love a good nickname but we are bad at it. We had Ralph Sampson and we came up with “Ralph”. It’s a weakness of ours. A couple of questions:
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Are nicknames dead? Who has a great nickname now (no Google searches)?
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We have Dai Dai Ames, Christian Bliss, and TJ Power on our team - both of which seem ripe for a good nickname. Unless Dai Dai is already a nickname. Thoughts here?
Lastly, “Fresh” might be our best nickname ever at UVA ! Your welcome. Though I suspect it was coined before he got to UVA.
Edit: My dad had a good nickname. “Hondo” was the name of a John Wayne movie where Wayne “shot a lot” - hence the nickname. His nickname at Ohio State was “Yunch” and that’s what I called him, but he never knew the derivation. Shout-out to his childhood friend “Too Hot” who he referenced often. Don’t remember his first name but his last name was Hegadus - a Hungarian kid from the neighborhood. When I inquired why they called him that, he explained that whenever they wanted to play a game in the summer, and asked him to participate, he replied it was “too hot”.
Don’t tell Tugard there is another “Tu” in the mix.
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If the Gus Bus had come here this problem would be solved already
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Took a crack at these. Take 'em or leave 'em:
Dai Dai Ames: Daylight, Double D (shoutout Ed, Edd n Eddy), Flash (this one ended up being harder than I expected)
Christian Bliss (apologies if any of these are sacrilegious, that’s not my area of expertise):
The Savior/Our Savior, Bliss Don’t Miss, His Holiness, 3CB
TJ Power: The Founder, The Architect (hopefully that doesn’t become a bricks joke), 3J, Power Ranger, Austin Powers (he looks like someone who would have gone as AP for Halloween back in the day)
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The greatest nickname of all time was Big Red. Hav can explain the etimology there. Also I made the word etimology up
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My favorite by far is Daylight. If (when?) he starts going downhill at 90 MPH and getting buckets, I am going with that (with credit to you).
If you are constipated, avoiding your spouse, or on a flight, here is a list of good ones. Some better than others. So many I like. What’s your favorite? (Warning: Don’t go into this rabbit hole if you don’t have time. You will get sucked in). Proceed with caution:
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I thought Simba and Uncle Malc were good.
But generally if you just sit around and think up nicknames, they’re gonna suck. Gotta drop it in the flow of the moment, and if it’s any good, it’ll get picked up.
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Iceman wins for me. Just perfect and we ALL had that iconic poster in the 80s
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