After two "incomplete" NBA seasons, you want to go all-in on 2021 -- and that starts with a funny/clever/good fantasy basketball team name. Sure, dominating your draft thanks to our positional and overall rankings, list of must-have sleepers and breakouts, and comprehensive cheat sheet is all well and good, but until you find the best fantasy team name...well, your season isn't even ready to begin.
As we say every year, our list doesn't contain all of the "best fantasy basketball team names." In order to do that, we'd need more inappropriate phrases and inside jokes that we couldn't possibly publish here -- you know, stuff that only others in your league understand (or won't cancel you over). Instead, we just have a bunch of puns based on players' names. Some are decent ("Rock 'em, Siakem Robots", "Ingles All The Way," "You Can't Randle The Truth"); many are terrible ("Implicit Tobias", "Wham, Bam, Thank You Ma'am"); and a lot you won't get ("Boogie Towns Productions"). No bother. We're volume shooters. Think of us as D'Angelo Russell. They're not all gonna hit bottom, but the ones that do...man, those look good. And "There's Always Room For D'Angelo." (Splash!)
2021 FANTASY BASKETBALL RANKINGS:
Point guard | Shooting guard | Small forward | Power forward | Center | Top 200
Ultimately, the goal of this list isn't necessarily to provide you with a slam dunk. It's to inspire you because you can definitely do better -- kind of like how players now feather out to the three-point line instead of the filling the lane and go toward the hoop on fast breaks. Threes are worth more than twos, so don't just take our "layups." Do you own thing, be smart, and hit a three.
Start your season like that, and you'll complete it with a fantasy title...or make your friends slightly smirk, which is the true mark of a champion.
2021 FANTASY SLEEPERS: One from each team | Top 10 draft steals | Best rookies
Best Fantasy Basketball Team Names 2021
ZION WILLIAMSON
Zion Kings
JA MORANT
Ja Rules
Moranting and Raving
KEVIN DURANT
(See above)
JOE INGLES
Ingles All the Way
LEBRON JAMES
The James Gang
Brains and LeBron
STEPH CURRY
Steph Infection
MARC GASOL
Gasol In the Family/Gasol I Need
Better Call Gasol
ENES KANTER
Enes Envy
You Kanter Go Home Again
MYLES TURNER
A Real Page Turner
I Would Walk 500 Myles/100 Myles and Runnin'
MILES BRIDGES
(See above)
Bridges Over Troubled Waters
MIKAL BRIDGES
(See above)
TRAE YOUNG
Trae Bombs
Forever Young/Young and Restless
C.J. MCCOLLUM
McCollum Like I See 'em
Here's My Number, McCollum Me Maybe
SHAI GILGEOUS-ALEXANDER
Thowin' Shaid/Actin' Shaidy
MIKE CONLEY
The Long Conley
CHRISTIAN WOOD
Onward Christian Soldiers
Knock On Wood
DEVIN BOOKER
Booker Smart/Crack a Booker
Stairway to Devin/Devin Sent/Devin Can Wait
DRAYMOND GREEN
It's Not Easy Being Green (works for several other Greens, too, obviously)
Go Ahead, Make My Draymond
CADE CUNNINGHAM
First Cade Kit
KYLE LOWRY
The Lowry Boys
BAM ADEBAYO
Wham, Bam, Thank You, Ma'am
Adebayo Blues
ANDRE DRUMMOND
Bang the Drummond
CLINT CAPELA
The Power of Christ Capela's You
A Capela Group
BROOK LOPEZ
Babbling Brooks
ROBIN LOPEZ
Robin and Stealin'
JARRETT ALLEN
Grin and Jarrett
We're Allen This Together
AL HORFORD
Dirty Horfords
MICHAEL PORTER JR.
Any Porter In a Storm
M-PJ Party
PJ WASHINGTON
(See above)
COLLIN SEXTON
I Wanna Sexton You Up/Let's Talk About Sexton/Safe Sexton/Unprotected Sexton
Your Body's Collin
Collin of the Wild
BUDDY HIELD
Bosom Buddies
JAMAL MURRAY
Murray Convention (also works for Dejounte Murray)
Jamal About That Bass
ANTHONY EDWARDS
Ant Man
ANTHONY DAVIS
Brow Chicka Brow Brow
Brow Beaters
LUKA DONCIC
Made You Luka/Luka Who's Talking/etc.
Slam Doncic
Scatch My Doncic (works with a lot of of Eastern European names)
DONOVAN MITCHELL
Spida Webs
KARL-ANTHONY TOWNS
Boogie Towns Productions
Just a Small Towns Girl
KAT Scratch Fever
MARVIN BAGLEY
Holding the Bagley/Securing the Bagley
R.J. BARRETT
Grin and Barrett
RUSSELL WESTBROOK
Russell Westbrookstone Brothers
Go Westbrook, Young Man
The Russ Belt
Russ-ian Interference
DARIUS GARLAND
Double Darius/Truth or Darius
DEANDRE AYTON
Master Ayton
LONZO BALL
Get Off My Lonzo
Havin' a Ball/Kick in the Balls
LAMELO BALL
(See above)
FRED VANVLEET
I Live In a VanVleet Down By the River
NICOLAS BATUM
Batum Goes the Dynamite
JAMES HARDEN
Get Harden
It's Harden Out Here for a Pimp
Go Harden in the Paint
MALIK BEASLEY
Pimpin' Ain't Beasley
DE'AARON FOX
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Zero Fox Given
De'Aaron On the Side of Caution
AARON GORDON
(See above)
PASCAL SIAKAM
Dirty Pascals
Rock 'em, Siakam Robots
MALIK MONK
Monk's Tale
Monk City
D'ANGELO RUSSELL
There's Always Room for D'Angelo
OG ANUNOBY
The Last OG
DE'ANDRE HUNTER
Big Game Hunters
VICTOR OLADIPO
Office Oladipo
Hail to the Victors
JULIUS RANDLE
Randle's Messiah
You Can't Randle the Truth
Too Hot to Randle
GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO
Greek Freak Squad
Get Off My Giannis
DAMIAN LILLARD
License to Illard/Time to Get Illard
JEREMY LAMB
Lambs to the Slaughter
DEWAYNE DEDMON
Day of the Dedmon
Make it Dewayne
JIMMY BUTLER
Butler Service
Butler Did It
JALEN SUGGS
Suggs Bunnies
MARCUS SMART
Smart Asses
TOBIAS HARRIS
Implicit Tobias
NORMAN POWELL
Boom Boom Powell
TIM HARDAWAY
Three the Hardaway
JAYSON TATUM
Tatum? I Hardly Know 'em!
PAUL GEORGE
Rated PG-13
LAURI MARKKANEN
On the Markkanen
TYRESE HALIBURTON
Tyrese's Pieces
DEMAR DEROZAN
Fruta DeMar
A DeRozan By Any Other Name
TERRY ROZIER
A Rozier By Any Other Name
GORDON HAYWARD
Carry on my Hayward Sons
ZACH LAVINE
LaVini Vidi Vici
KYLE KUZMA
Kuzma Control
DOMANTAS SABONIS
Sabonis Round
Praying Domantas
DERRICK FAVORS
Sexual Favors/Party Favors
Favors of Love
Favors in Ya Ear
LARRY NANCE
Sir Nance-a-Lot
Nance-y Boys
JRUE HOLIDAY
Happy Holidays
Just How We Jrue It Up
TREVOR ARIZA
Ariza Con Pollo
RICHAUN HOLMES
Lifestyles of the Richaun and Famous/Richaun Homey Quan
Holmes Alone
RICKY RUBIO
RubiOMG
RUI HACHIMURA
Hachimura Sauce
DEVONTE' GRAHAM
Golden Grahams
CARIS LAVERT
24 Caris Magic
KLAY THOMPSON
Klaymation Domination
BRADLEY BEAL
Beal of Approval
End All, Be-al
Trained Beals
RODNEY HOOD
Boyz N Tha Hood
T.J. WARREN
Warren Peace
MOE HARKLESS
How Could You Be Moe Harkless?
Gimme Some Moe
RUDY GOBERT
Sweet Home ChicaGoberts
Gobert or Go Home
JOSH RICHARDSON
Get Richardson or Die Tryin'
KEVIN HUERTER
Please Kevin, Don't Huerter 'em
Huerter So Good
NIKOLA JOKIC
Jokic On You
DENNIS SCHRODER
Taming of the Shroder
STEVEN ADAMS
I Literally Can't Steven
KHRIS MIDDLETON/MALCOLM BROGDON
Malcolm in the Middleton
SPENCER DINWIDDIE
Spencer's Gifts
TYLER HERRO
Herro Ball
Did You Ever Know That You're My Herro?
MONTREZL HARRELL
Escape from Alcatrezl/Birdman of Alcatrezl
NIKOLA VUCEVIC
Deja Vucevic
Scenic Vucevicf
ANDREW WIGGINS
Split Your Wiggins
