Best Fantasy Basketball Team Names 2018

Matt Lutovsky

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What's the most important part of your preseason fantasy basketball preparation every year? Rankings? Eh, maybe. Sleepers? Yeah, those are nice. Draft strategy? How hard is it to pick a player when your turn is up? No, the most important addition to any cheat sheet is a list of good fantasy basketball team names. Like the best players in the NBA, you have to be versatile -- funny, clever, offensive, topical -- whatever it takes. Anyone can win a fantasy basketball title, but not everyone can come up with "I Wanna Sexton You Up" or "Better Call Gasol". That takes heart. (Or just go all Jimmy Butler and name your team "You Bleepin' Need Me to Win!")

As we always say, an actual "best team names" list would include many that are far too inappropriate for this family website, and many will refer to an inside joke or cultural reference that is primarily (only?) funny to you and your leaguemates. We can't predict that, so instead we go with the tried-and-true "pun" method (or is "tired-and-true"?) for one or more players who might wind up on your team. You're not going to get some of our references), but hopefully you can find one that causes you to slightly smirk -- or just doesn't cause you to vomit.

2018-19 RANKINGS
Point GuardShooting Guard | Small Forward | Power Forward | Center

Even if you don't like any of our team names suggestions (and we don't blame you), hopefully our try-hard puns can inspire something much better from the recesses of your brain. And, again, if you don't get one of the references below, just feel bad about yourself, assume it's really good, and move on with life.

Best Fantasy Basketball Team Names 2018

I Wanna Sexton You Up/Let's Talk About Sexton/Safe Sexton/Unprotected Sexton (you get it)

Ingles All the Way

Gasol In the Family/Gasol I Need (you get it)

Better Call Gasol

Enes Envy

Bridges Over Troubled Water

Bambas Over Baghdad/Atom Bambas/Nuclear Bambas/Bamba No. 5 (you get it)

Trae Bombs (or Trae Bambas, if you land both)

Forever Young

Kawhi So Serious? 

McCollum Like I See 'em 

Hard Knox Life

Knox Three Times

Out of Your Teague 

Teague of Extraordinary Gentlemen 

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Lightning Fultz 

The Power of Christ Capala's You 

A Capala Group 

Bosom Buddies

Otta Erotic Asphyxiation

Otto Union

Murray Convention

Jamal About That Bass

You Gotta Have Hart/Total Eclipse of the Hart (you get it)

Kemba Berries 

Brow Chicka Brow Brow 

Brow Beaters

Slam Doncic

Rated Triple-J

2018-19 RANKINGS
Point GuardShooting Guard | Small Forward | Power Forward | Center

Boogie Towns Productions (Worth it to get both)

Holding the Bagley

Bodak 'Melo

Don't Be Shai​

Russell Westbrookstone Brothers

The Russ Belt 

Russ-ian Interference 

Master Ayton

Havin' a Ball/Kick in the Balls

A Rozier/DeRozan By Any Other Name...(We could've just used Derrick Rose for this one, but nah...)

I Live In a VanVleet Down By the River

VanVleet of Foot

Batum Goes the Dynamite 

It's Harden Out Here for a Pimp 

We Want Beasley 

Pimpin' Aint Beasley 

De'Aaron On the Side of Caution

Fantastic Mr. Fox 

Mudiay Blues 

Monk's Tale 

Monk City

Boogie Nights 

Just Say Nowitzki 

There's Always Room for D'Angelo 

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Barton Around

Fresh Prince

Thou Shalt Not Covington Thy Neighbor's Wife (or Oxen...up to you)

The Last OG

Office Oladipo 

Hail to the Victors

Randle's Messiah 

You Can't Randle the Truth 

Greek Freak Squad 

Build the Wall 

Let's Get Redickulous

License to Illard/Time to Get Illard

Get Off My Lonzo 

Marcin Orders 

It Ain't Over Til It's Ilysova 

Ain't Got Time to Bledsoe 

Butler Service

Hermit Crabbes 

Gospel According to Matthews

Smart Guys

Tobias and the Never Nudes 

Implicit Tobias 

Three the Hardaway 

Tatum? I Hardly Know 'em!

What's Dunn is Dunn 

Rated PG-13 

On the Marco/On the Markkanen

Fruta DeMar

Carry on my Hayward Sons 

LaVineal Sins 

Chief Markieffs 

Marquese Chris Paul George Hill 

2018-19 RANKINGS
Point GuardShooting Guard | Small Forward | Power Forward | Center

Beverley D'Angelo (The "Vacation" movies were great, huh?)

Curry Favors 

Curry Faried Rice

Scatch My Saric/Doncic/Mirotic (you get it)

Kuzma Control

Sabonis Round

Jrue Hill 

Jrue LIfe

Ariza Con Pollo 

RubiOMG 

24 Caris Magic 

Molded From Klay

Beal of Approval

Boyz N Tha (Rodney) Hood 

Tip Your Waiters 

Case of the Rondae's 

How Could You Be Moe Harkless? 

Gimme Some Moe/Gimme Some Mo

Sweet Home ChicaGoberts 

Gobert or Go Home 

Yoke the Jokic (Naughty By Nature fans -- and only Naughty By Nature fans -- get this one)

Taming of the Shroder 

Malcolm in the Middleton 

Deja Vucevic 

Run of the Millsaps 

Hacksaw Aldridge 

Split Your Wiggins 

Matt Lutovsky

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Matt Lutovsky has been a writer and editor for The Sporting News since 2007, primarily writing about fantasy sports, betting, and gaming.