BATUM NICKNAME
by sabonis on Mar 14, 2009 12:41 AM PDT
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PrintNot sure if this a re-post or not, but after tonight's outstanding 20 point effort, our dear Nicolas Batum needs a nickname. I have heard a few potential nicknames in the BE forums, O-Live forums, on 95.5, and other blogs, and I'll try to compile a list of worthy ideas. If you have any other ones not represented in the poll, put them in the comments and I'll try to edit the poll.
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I'm not going to vote
but I will say I have a new found love for Nic after the last few weeks. His hustle alone is worthy of respect and then on top of that he is taking to burden of covering (and often shutting down!) the opposing teams top player, whether it be a PG, SG or SF and on top of that we are seeing a little shake-and-bake out of him on offence and he is hitting the big shots down the stretch! What a champion, I cant wait to watch him grow with the rest of the blazers!
"Great Oden's raven!" - Ron Burgandy
Just out of curiousity
Is Batum’s first name supposed to be shortened to Nic or Nico?
I’ve seen Nic a lot in the American media, but I saw it as Nico in a French translation.
by ostateblazer on Mar 14, 2009 3:35 AM PDT up reply actions
My guess
is Nico. It is much more common to hear that form in France and Italy than Nic (nick) as we use in America. On the other hand, he might be trying to be more “American” by using Nic. I know many young people from both Europe and Asia that Americanize their names.
I believe you brought that up in an open game day thread earlier this season
It wasn’t funny then either. Besides its Batum, pronounced “bah-toom” not Batum pronounced “bay-tum”
sheesh
I AM A PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS SUPPORTER.
you should have included the flyin frenchman
"Slum dunk? You just go to the rim, and crush.. crush the ball in the rim."
- Nic Batum
My contribution
St. Nick- Anytime he dunked or blocked you could say it’s a gift from St. Nick.
Doom- Because the crowd could chant Doooom! like in Conan the Barbarian with Thulsa Doom.
Dr. Doom- Super villain thing, but also Dr. J esque.
by Wotan on Mar 14, 2009 1:07 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I like all of these
the last one is a stretch, but it rhymes better than doom. Actually not that I think about it, Dr. Doom is a little better. But St. Nick is a good one.
It took my two years to come up with an avatar and sig
and this is the best I could come up with.
French prince is pretty funny
I voted boom boom.
How about papa bird? You know, because he guards the clutch. :P
"It was White vs. Purple that's all I know." - B Roy
if French prince wins out, i want either a picture of dave chapelle in drag serving eddie murphy pancakes or will smith in neon green with a sideways mishapen hat with a miniature french flag in his hand up on the megascreen every time Nico scores.
Please, for the love of all that is holy, please stop using the following: "Book it.", "FTW", "Epic" & "Fail".
...no seriously--stop.
i dont like batman...
simply bc its too similar to danny ‘the dark night’ granger.
ARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGH!!!!!!!!- Sabonis getting fouled.
For sure
I always say it in my head… “Boom Boom Batum!”
Batman would have been good if his name was pronounced “Bay-tuhm”
French Prince is funny too, but somehow I feel like that is more of a name for Tony Parker or something.
by ostateblazer on Mar 14, 2009 3:37 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL, oh wow, I like that, French Prince, that's awsome
Considering many call him a bust and injury prone and never amount to anything. If he plays one more game this regular season, he will have played one more game than any time in bynums career, the one non-playing year excepted. Yet NO ONE in LA complains about Bynum being injury prone, all they ever do is talk about how they can’t wait until he comes back.
I think some of it is that Portland remembers Bowie, and secondly that donkeys always REMIND us of that when they talk trash and it angers us that Oden cant prove them wrong until he is healthy. - GreatOden'sRaven
Well his game reminds me of Tayshaun's...
So “The French Prince” seems perfect to me.
by Salem Stephen on Mar 14, 2009 8:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I think I'll call him "Toast"
as in french toast, but shorter.
Yaaaaaaaaaaay Toast!
Blazer's fan since '84, Spurs fan when they are not playing Portland.
↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A B A START.
call him butter
cause he’s on a roll!
It took my two years to come up with an avatar and sig
and this is the best I could come up with.
Nico
is good for me.
Stay Healthy.
Sign Nate Robinson RFA
Win Championship !
is frog considered a derogatory nickname towards french people?
cause Frogger makes sense since he’s French and he can jump…
yes, it's derogatory
they don’t like it (and they’re very sensitive in general vs americans)
boomboom might also be seen as insulting, you never know.
ignacio
because it's a reference to cannons
they seem to be on the receiving end. more often than not. Actually, I’m really just joking, and I think ignacio was too. Hope I didn’t go to far.
It took my two years to come up with an avatar and sig
and this is the best I could come up with.
thats ok,
no need for forgiveness. you will just surrender like usual
It was "mascot night" at the Rose Garden, which apparently translates to a dozen inflatable versions of various NBA mascots being chased around the arena by Portland's "Blaze", which is some breed of rapist dog. -PostingandToasting
by GreatOden'sRaven on Mar 14, 2009 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Boom Boom is an inner-city nickname
For Going Twosies, Dropping a Deuce, Dumping the Kids off at the Pool, etc.
by TheThinWhiteDuke on Mar 14, 2009 8:41 PM PDT up reply actions
I like to call him "The Spainiard" and just forget that he's French.
by Dragline on Mar 14, 2009 3:39 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Then we could have the 3 amigos
French and Spain are pretty much the same country, right? I’m pissing off everyone now. Sorry alnightminimart1, I know there’s a difference, I just can’t figure it out.
It took my two years to come up with an avatar and sig
and this is the best I could come up with.
If they use the same money, then they're the same country
Spain and France are nothing more than states now, all united by the Euro. Really, they’re so small they’re more like two tiny towns with rival high schools, united by the Euro.
I’m pretty sure that’s how it works, at least legally.
France dyed Spain’s pool red white and blue, and Spain assassinated France’s president in retaliation. Spain isn’t good at fun rivalries :-(
Morty
by Mortimer on Mar 14, 2009 5:20 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
LOL
I just had a yeoman’s effort not to spit out my orange juice reading that!
Travis Outlaw is an alien, but in a good way.
Awesome Graphic was provided by CIC, because he felt like he should be hazed.
by Clevelander among roses on Mar 14, 2009 9:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Using that logic of same currency = same country...
Cooper in “Euro-trip” is correct when he says “Europe is officially the worst country on Earth”
Blazers win!
It's more fun to say "Spain-yurd" than "Spaniard"
Batum also speaks “Spainish”, or “Mexican”. It’s a gutteral language commonly used in the throats of the lesser developed ethnicities of the world, a strange mixture of grunts and snorts and chest thumping.
Batum and Pau Gasol are very good friends and went through many basketeering wars with tears and blood together, I think. If you make fun of their friendship a fatwah will be called out on you. Salmon Rushdie learned this all too well :-(
Morty
dynamite!
Batum goes the dynamite!
"There are a few teams you have to watch out for in the fourth quarter."
"Yeah, but Portland definitely is not one of them."
-New Orleans Hornets broadcasters at the end of the third quarter with the Hornets leading 74-59. Portland later ends up winning 97-89.
"They don't mind him shooting that shot at all. Rudy Fernandez is not that great of a 3pt shooter."
-New Orleans Hornets broadcasters right after a Rudy Fernandez missed 3pter. Rudy Fernandez finished the game with three 3pters on six attempts.
I like Nick the brick for when he goes into shooting slumps,
hopefully I never have to call him that again. I wish I could remember who came up with that one, I LOL’d.
Considering many call him a bust and injury prone and never amount to anything. If he plays one more game this regular season, he will have played one more game than any time in bynums career, the one non-playing year excepted. Yet NO ONE in LA complains about Bynum being injury prone, all they ever do is talk about how they can’t wait until he comes back.
I think some of it is that Portland remembers Bowie, and secondly that donkeys always REMIND us of that when they talk trash and it angers us that Oden cant prove them wrong until he is healthy. - GreatOden'sRaven
i always preferred
Batum raider
"When jumpers are outlawed only Outlaw will take jumpers"-LoadedOrygun
by DominicanAvenger on Mar 14, 2009 3:58 AM PDT reply actions
Master Batum
I also liked The French Prince when I first heard/read it, since it works on a few levels. There was a TV show called “The Fresh Prince” a few years ago, so it works that way. Plus, Batum is French, so there’s that. AND he’s often compared to Tayshaun Prince, so he’s like the French version.
I’m just telling ya, the nickname is like an onion, with many layers of deliciousness that makes you cry the deeper you delve into it.
I think “Capt. Strokey” is a good nickname since half of his face is melting like he had a stroke. The eye isn’t as open, the face sags, his mouth droops… it’s cute and all, but he had to have had a stroke. It’s just how things work.
Mortimer
by Mortimer on Mar 14, 2009 4:20 AM PDT reply actions 2 recs
I love the French Prince more and more. Works on so many levels
- Fresh Prince of Bel Air
- The next Tayshaun Prince
- Le Petit Prince
- The young prince of the Blazers
- LeBron is the King, Nic is the Prince
*…
I want him to put on some weight in the offseason
so he could have a chance at guarding LeBron.
Stay Healthy.
Sign Nate Robinson RFA
Win Championship !
I hope he can make it stick by getting to Tayshaun’s level as a baller.
One etymology of “French Prince”
by 8volumesthick on Mar 14, 2009 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions
"The Crane"
The powerful hoisting capabilities of a Boom Machine.
Also, with a wing span of nearly 8 feet, cranes are among the largest and most impressive birds of North America.
Boom-Boom is derogatory to French
The Boom (or boomier) translates roughly as “smelly guy with dirty tool”…..here is the link. If Nic found we were using that he would be very insulted.
"You're welcome friend
I love you."
- Tom "Dragline" inHawaii
That's hilarious!
I just came up with this conclusion over at my blog.
Also, my choice was Monsieur Incroyable.
How about Batumatic?
I am, in fact, going with "Boom-Boom"
I know this sounds like bragging (cause it is) but I actually coined that nickname (so the official spelling should always include the hyphen) a real long time ago.
"You're welcome friend
I love you."
- Tom "Dragline" inHawaii
by 92wastheyear on Mar 14, 2009 9:10 AM PDT up reply actions
The Condor, Air France or the Concorde!
The condor because of his wingspan and his penchant from swooping down and feasting on the carcass of breakaway dunk or lay up attempt and turning those attempts immediately into roadkill.
The Concorde is Air Frances Supersonic Jet capable of fast trips up and down the court with a funky wingspan and has hot stewardesses.
I like The Condor
It’s like a throwback old-school nickname. Like Ron Cey was ‘The Penguin’ and Andre Dawson was ‘The Hawk’
Much like Greg ‘The Raven’ Oden.
Brandon “The Natural’ Roy
Travis "for god sakes nooo..YES!!!” Outlaw
HAD hot stewardesses
The Concorde isn’t flying anymore
And the British were 50/50 partners in the Concorde, and I don’t think Batum wants us to call him anything that’s half British
Blazers win!
*Judges*
The french had never won anything until Batum landed in Portland. That’s like winning the lottery.
by Se Hace La Vista Gorda on Mar 15, 2009 6:06 AM PDT up reply actions
The Praying Mantis
or Mantis for short, because of his crazy long arms.
Spanish Main: The point of departure for enormous wealth in the form of gold, silver, gems, spices, hardwoods, hides, alley-oops, assists and three pointers.
by LaughingJon on Mar 14, 2009 8:53 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I like that one
Stay Healthy.
Sign Nate Robinson RFA
Win Championship !
Can I Have A "French Kiss" To Go With That? HAHAHA!!!
"Here's Blake To Roy... This Is For The Win... YESSSS!!!!!!" - Marv Albert
by pumping_iron22 on Mar 14, 2009 8:02 PM PDT up reply actions
We've got a superhero theme going
I can’t say I love Batman, but if you add it to The Roy Wonder and The Webslinger (martell), you start to get a nice little theme going…
Bring back the Uncle Cliffy!
Okay, how is he NOT going to be insulted
By having a nickname that brings to mind Thernadier?
by TheThinWhiteDuke on Mar 14, 2009 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Re: Master Batum
Thanks, I had a good laugh. But you have to pronounce it ‘a l’americaine’ and remember J. Swift’s book. Hilarious nevertheless.
How about The French Revolution? Sorry if it has been proposed, I just heard of the site but have been following the Blazers since 2006 when I moved here. Vive la NBA.
I like
The Flying Frenchman. Also, the Condor fits well.
I sometimes think of his 3 pointers swishing through the net or his emphatic blocks from behind as the French Kiss.
His 3 point shot tickling the net lends credence to the French Tickler handle.
Too bad his and not Channing’s last name was Frye. French Frye in that case would have been too awesome.
Standing out to me most predominantly is Nic’s easy, fluid, graceful, long-strided and fast running style; as such it’s easy for me to think of him as the French Gazelle. Of course, excepting zoo’s there probably never has been a Gazelle’s in France.
I suppose if I had to vote for one of these it would be the French Kiss. That could easily be shortened to The Kiss as in “The Kiss smacks again”.
Don’t know so much about my nick names but I do know that we have an outstanding long term asset on our team in Batum (great job KP!). I couldn’t imagine then and certainly can not fathom now all the trade talk that promoted the Blazers acquiring another small forward before the trade deadline. Huh? With Batum on the team? And Martell? And Travis? Crazy talk that’s what it was.
A few days ago I commented that after Rudy went down, Batum would probably be picking up most of his minutes. Look what he did with them last night! BTW, I just can’t envision Martell bumping Batum out of the starting 3 spot when he comes back.
Brandon Roy just destroyed everything in his path. There's your rational analysis -- Dave
Also: COMCAST SUCKS!
I need help making a joke about Michel Fourniret and Batum's nickname
Because Nic is a lady killer, he’s got a killer instinct and stuff.
Are you following me camera guy? That's why I don't do 360 dunks anymore.
La Resistance (sp?)
The French Resistance in WW2 was one of the most fearsome guerilla forces in the history of modern warfare. Obviously, basketball is not war, but I like to come with something more creative that the ininitals/1st letter + last name combo a lot of our guys have. Plus, despite the fact he looks 12, Nic has shown us he’s a real competitor with a bit of a nasty streak. Viva La Resistance!
I believe in Greg Oden. To all the haters - get down with the program or stay off the wagon for all time. #52
NB88015.4y
I assign each player an 9 character alpha-numeric identifier based on first and last initial, jersy number, years in the league, projected efficiency rating and a cranio-facial symmetry factor. This way it’s simple to calculate that Frye goes into Pryzbilla three times with a remainder of one Sergio.
by cantdunk on Mar 14, 2009 12:19 PM PDT reply actions 4 recs
NB88
Stay Healthy.
Sign Nate Robinson RFA
Win Championship !
No
That kind of nicknake is a cuss word. The dreaded laker follows that kind of nickname line of thinking.
by Se Hace La Vista Gorda on Mar 14, 2009 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions
How about " The French Prince of Portland " played to the theme from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air!
I flew into Portland with a Ball in my hand and yelled to my pilot yo man smell you later!
kinda too long
but we could make it shorter by going with the F POP or the french POP for short, but i totally agree with the the french prince of portland
"Howard, he know me" Rudy
by phillyduck23 on Mar 14, 2009 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Nic does act like a bird of prey out on the court.
Hence… ‘Le Hawk’
Roy Tribute
Treat people well because Karma can hit you at any second.
how about "Sic" ?
meaning – to attack – Like Sick ’em, since he always draws the toughest assignments, and his play is sick, too (like that block on Carter)
I AM A PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS SUPPORTER.
Master Batum?
I guess that leaves room for this name….
Frenchie Pippen. he’s like Scottie, just a French bastard. Not a Frie or Croissant or Revolution for that matter. Not Napolean Batumamite, just Frenchie Pippen you bastards.
"Both Anthony Carter and Jameer Nelson were downright jubilant in the Magic locker room postgame. Carter said to no one in particular, "Brandon Roy, that man is unstoppable, it's like he's playing NBA Live" and Nelson was cracking on his teammates for not being able to guard Brandon. The kinds of jokes you can make when you win."
How about "THE ROCK"?
I posted this earlier on BE forum during the second half of Blazers vs Nets…
I mentioned that I am Filipino-American and “Batum” pretty much means “Rock” in Tagalog…
Also… Any time Batum makes a spectacular play, whether on offense and defense, we should all do a “french kiss” with the air to celebrate, while eating “french fries” and make “french toast”… HAHAHA… ohhh man!!!…
"Here's Blake To Roy... This Is For The Win... YESSSS!!!!!!" - Marv Albert
"The French Prince" is the winner by far.
It suits the flashes of elegance in his game. One might also work in something about “Air” as in getting air: “The French Prince of _ Air”.
Batman’s ok too. It reminds me of those swooping blocked shots.
what about "boomstick"
he is kinda scrawny and we have the whole boom boom batum deal going on
and army of darkness is pretty awesome too
Nicolas deserves a name with dignity
Perhaps, in consideration of the "Prince: suggestions, he could be a Duke of Defense (in French = Duc) in the style of Henry Iba.
I would love...
to see Batum (present) and Pippen (in his prime) go 1 on 1 on the b-ball court. That would something really interesting!!!
"Here's Blake To Roy... This Is For The Win... YESSSS!!!!!!" - Marv Albert
by pumping_iron22 on Mar 14, 2009 10:36 PM PDT reply actions
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