Carmelo Anthony is known as Sweet Melon, and in what is clearly the most telling evidence of Chinese basketball acumen, Tim Duncan, nemesis of Nash and his fellow Suns, is known as Stone Buddha.
...it was to be a recurring theme, the players constantly assembling for pictures with strangers and with one another, the last of the morning a semi-comical group portrait at the Gate of Heavenly Peace, where a giant picture of Mao looked out over Tiananmen Square. “I’m gonna do that,” Baron Davis said. “Buy me some property way out in the middle of nowhere and put up a big-ass picture of myself!”
The list of Chinese NBA nicknames is here.
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