The best (and worst) of current Utah Jazz nicknames

Professional athletes and nicknames have gone together since the dawn of time and the current Utah Jazz players are no exception.

Over the years, the Utah Jazz have had no shortage of iconic players with memorable nicknames. Of course the “Mailman” Karl Malone is perhaps the most well known, but there have been several other classics such as the “Big Dog” Antoine Carr, “Big T” Thurl Bailey and “Horny” as Jazz announcer “Hot Rod” Hundley used to refer to Jeff Hornacek.

But the nicknames are far from a thing of the past as the current Jazz players have plenty of unique and memorable pseudonyms themselves. Therefore, call it a slow news day or call it me needing a break from beating you over the head with free agency speculation, but I thought it’d be a nice change of pace to look at some Jazz nicknames – the good, the bad and the somewhere in between.

So without further ado, let’s kick it off with one of the most iconic nicknames on the squad: