Here is a Twitter thread that goes in depth on some Chinese nicknames for NBA players

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James Harden - ????? "The Mayor of Jingdezhen" Jingdezhen is a town famous for making fragile porcelain, so "Son of Jingdezhen" (?????) is a term for an NBA flop artist. Harden is perceived to be the best at this "art," so he gets to be the "mayor" of Floptown.

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give me the Mayor of Jingdezhen. So abstract and hilarious

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This is the winner imo

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Well you can't spell Hardwn without a w

Dude, this guy has got to be making shite up

applying Mamba to everything is the most chinese thing ever

best thread in a while

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So many Mambas!

Chinese netizens love to adapt Kobe's nickname "Black Mamba" (???) for other players.

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Of course they translated "White Mamba" (???) for Brian Scalabrine and "Red Mamba" (???) for Matt Bonner. But they respect the "Mamba" name & prefer to apply it to somewhat more prominent players.

They're also more creative than just changing the color of the snake...

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James Harden is the "Free Throw Mamba" (???) for his otherworldly ability to get to the free throw line.

More critically, he is known by haters as the "Porcelain Mamba" (???), suggesting that he gets fouls from barely being touched or by flopping.

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Victor Oladipo is the "Diligent Mamba" (????) because Chinese netizens feel he drastically improved since last year, and therefore must have practiced very hard over the summer.

Texting his trainer right after a game 7 loss only further validated this nickname.

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Andrew Wiggins is the "Strength Conserving Mamba" (????), because people feel he is not aggressive enough and avoids dunking.

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Boogie Cousins is the "Technical Mamba" (T?? - literally, "T Mamba") due to his propensity to be assessed with technical fouls.

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Clint Capela is the "Pancake Mamba" (???), because in Chinese scoring off of alley-oop lob passes is known as "eating pancakes."

In this context, Chris Paul and James Harden, as the lob passers, are known as the
"Pancake Makers" (???).

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Andre Iguodala is the "Coffin Mamba" (???).

People feel he plays like an old man in the regular season, but then suddenly comes back to life in the playoffs.

This transformation is known as "opening the coffin lid" (????).

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Ryan Anderson is the "Standing Around Mamba" (???), because people feel he just stands around behind the three-point line, waiting for a catch-and-shoot pass.

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Eric Gordon is the "Round Face Mamba" (p??, literally "Pi Mamba") because his face is really, really round.

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Steven Adams is the "Box Out Mamba" (???).

People feel Russell Westbrook is always looking to pad his stats, and that Adams is a genius at boxing out other big men so that Russ can swoop in and grab the rebound.

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Kyrie Irving is the "Flat Mamba" (???) because of his stated belief that the Earth is flat.

Other Chinese nicknames for Kyrie include "Uncle Drew" (????, de lu dashu) and "Potassium Iodide" (???), since both he and it are abbreviated KI.

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im laughing like a little girl dude i don't know why these are so funny

the pancake makers

that and J, PhD have me dying

The Andre Miller one still has me fricking dying after looking her up

This pic is really good. Like this is Andre Miller with a sex change

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Shawn Marion - ?? Hacker, a stretch from his original nickname The Matrix. The movie with the same name is translated as ???? (Empire of Hackers) in Chinese.

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Tyson Chandler - ?? The Boxing Champ. Because the most famous Tyson in China is still Iron Mike.

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Bill Russell - ??? The Lord of Rings.

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Sam Cassell - E.T. (Yes directly as E.T.)

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Chris Paul - 183???? - 6-foot mysterious man. Because there are a lot of memes in Chinese fansites about Paul, referred as a 6-foot mysterious man, stealing a basket court floor from a team reaching Western Conference Finals.

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Carlos Boozer - ??? - The Traitor/Defector. Because of his breaking of oral deal with Cavs.

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Stockton is "The General" and Malone is just "Mailman."

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Gobert is "French Daniel Wu" due to faint resemblance to a Hong Kong actor. Haven't seen one for Mitchell so far...

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Yao Ming is "The Moveable Great Wall of China"

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Donovan Mitchell is “??” “the Rice Ball”, because Mitchell sounds just like Mi(rice)Qiu(ball) in Chinese.

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well most of them are very offensive, like calling Westbrook "??” cause they think he looks like a turtle. But one I thought good is “???”, it sounds like LeBron but means "six-steps-ron", making fun of his non-called travels

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Magic Johnson is called "Magician Johnson" in Chinese.

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The best is Wilt Chamberlain (??)
"Twenty thousand." Because he’s known to have had sex with 20,000 women

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A group of die-hard Hornets fans have another nickname for Kemba: "??" (Bro. Six). Because Kemba was considered as a sixth man at best.

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I wrote a little about Chinese nick names for LeBron last year: ???:"six steps guy" ?? "king of crabs" hopefully self explanatory.

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Sam Cassell - E.T. (Yes directly as E.T.)

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Oh my god