Weird Thing About Lebron's Basketball Reference Profile

[Full Court]

As most of you probably know, Basketball Reference lists all a player's nicknames under their profile.

There are couple of surprising things in Lebron's profile, however.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/j/jamesle01.html

First of all, they list one of his nicknames as Benjamin Buckets. I've never heard that one. Anyone ever hear of that before? And how did it come about? Can 1987_Lakers get to the bottom of this?

Also, they don't mention LeShrivel, which is probably his most widely used nickname. You hear that one all over the place. Kind of weird.

[Real Men Wear Green]

The voices in your head don't count.

[Full Court]

The voices in your head don't count.

Seriously though, have you ever heard of Benjamin Buckets?

[1987_Lakers]

The nickname "Benjamin Buckets" for LeBron James originated from a comment made by then-Cleveland Cavaliers coach Ty Lue. Lue was referring to James's ability to remain great over the years, and used the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as a comparison. The movie is about a man who ages in reverse.

[Full Court]

The nickname "Benjamin Buckets" for LeBron James originated from a comment made by then-Cleveland Cavaliers coach Ty Lue. Lue was referring to James's ability to remain great over the years, and used the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as a comparison. The movie is about a man who ages in reverse.

:applause:

Gracias, amigo.

[ArbitraryWater]

The nickname "Benjamin Buckets" for LeBron James originated from a comment made by then-Cleveland Cavaliers coach Ty Lue. Lue was referring to James's ability to remain great over the years, and used the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as a comparison. The movie is about a man who ages in reverse.

Thats amazing actually haha.


Bref has a ton of nicknames that havent been heard by most of the public.

[Kblaze8855]

Thats amazing actually haha.


Bref has a ton of nicknames that havent been heard by most of the public.

I feel like people of the future will wonder how Charles Barkley got all these nicknames


Sir Charles, The Round Mound of Rebound, The Chuckster, The Chuck Wagon, The Prince of Pizza, The Incredible Bulk, The Leaning Tower of Pizza, Bread Truck, Boy Gorge, Love Boat, Food World, The Crisco Kid, Wide Load from Leeds, Ton of Fun, Goodtime Blimp


When he looked like this


https://www.hostpic.org/images/2411170152310104.jpeg



https://www.hostpic.org/images/2411170153450326.jpeg



That’s an 80s fat guy by athlete standards. The college pic is about as fat as he ever was before he was old.

[And1AllDay]

The nickname "Benjamin Buckets" for LeBron James originated from a comment made by then-Cleveland Cavaliers coach Ty Lue. Lue was referring to James's ability to remain great over the years, and used the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as a comparison. The movie is about a man who ages in reverse.

gottem

[Meticode]

It's not widely known becuase it was mentioned/given to him by Lue during an interview during his second stint in Cleveland. I've heard that nickname referenced a couple times in media.

[tpols]

I feel like people of the future will wonder how Charles Barkley got all these nicknames


Sir Charles, The Round Mound of Rebound, The Chuckster, The Chuck Wagon, The Prince of Pizza, The Incredible Bulk, The Leaning Tower of Pizza, Bread Truck, Boy Gorge, Love Boat, Food World, The Crisco Kid, Wide Load from Leeds, Ton of Fun, Goodtime Blimp


When he looked like this


https://www.hostpic.org/images/2411170152310104.jpeg



https://www.hostpic.org/images/2411170153450326.jpeg



That’s an 80s fat guy by athlete standards. The college pic is about as fat as he ever was before he was old.


That right there is a violation. :lol

He's honestly not even fat. No beer belly whatsoever. Just a wide strong structure. That last Pic he on some Diddy shit though.

[Full Court]

That right there is a violation. :lol

He's honestly not even fat. No beer belly whatsoever. Just a wide strong structure. That last Pic he on some Diddy shit though.

Later in his career, Chucky was a big boy.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fs.hdnux.com%2Fphotos%2F31%2F40%2F 40%2F6686776%2F5%2F1200x0.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=ca2d42e5916354772b7fab12baf6cba9e788e467eb152d 8c68ccdc4e51e2461b&ipo=images

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[Nowoco]

Sir Charles, The Round Mound of Rebound, The Chuckster, The Chuck Wagon, The Prince of Pizza, The Incredible Bulk, The Leaning Tower of Pizza, Bread Truck, Boy Gorge, Love Boat, Food World, The Crisco Kid, Wide Load from Leeds, Ton of Fun, Goodtime Blimp

I've never in my life heard anyone use a single one of those nicknames for Chuck outside of the first three.

[Neal Romer]

I've never in my life heard anyone use a single one of those nicknames for Chuck outside of the first three.

Ive heard Boy Gorge and The Incredible Bulk. Also dont forget about Sir Cumference.

Altho that one caught on more widely (pun intended) later on as a nickname for Lebron, for completely different reasons.

[tontoz]

Barkley was pretty fat coming into the league. Apparently Moses ripped him about his conditioning and actually hurt his feelings lol.

I remember he was rehabbing from an injury once and they showed a clip of him running in a pool. In typical Barkley fashion he says " I don't know if I want to win this bad". :lol

[Kblaze8855]

Ive heard Wide Load from Leeds said out loud.

But even coming out of college, he wasn’t what is generally called fat. That picture I posted of him eating pizza was literally him playing into it around that time. He was probably 290 or so there.

The fantasy ever looks back, then is actually in uniform when you can’t tell how many muscles are under there and his fat head gives the impression he’s bigger than he is.

[Kblaze8855]

His peak fatness is probably from here


https://youtu.be/0jfE4IGIxpg?si=8IXNGWQk01C2QfKp


to here:

https://i.ibb.co/DzHrtKj/IMG-0510.jpg





He was big but a lot of them had those young rounder shapes. Even Karl Malone wasn’t ripped just…huge

https://i.ibb.co/K9fwxTs/IMG-0511.jpg


84 Olympic tryouts right before he was in Philly when Moses was calling him fat.

there have been fat players. Stanley Roberts at times. Oliver Miller. Hot plate Williams ate his way out of the league. It happens


https://www.hostpic.org/images/2411172255540341.jpeg



It’s just odd to me that the most famous fat basketball player spent most of his career with the kind of physical appearance most Americans would envy.


But 80s fat isn’t our current fat. Remember the first few seasons of the Simpsons Homer was considered a huge fat ass because he was 230 something pounds. He had to get up to 300 in the episode where he was intentionally getting himself fat for disability. These days you see eight 300 pound people in the supermarket every time you go.