New Name For The Young Gunz? You Decide

[ezz_bee]

I still like the "Fly'n Raptors"

JuJu also liked it when I tweeted him last night. Got a big kick out of it.

You guys/gals who are on Twitter might want to welcome him to the Raptors if you haven't already.

I am sure that he would appreciate it.

Just sent one off welcoming him to the raps and told him to bring his defence

[Buddahfan]

Just sent one off welcoming him to the raps and told him to bring his defence

+10

[Jay]

Worst name ever

Fly'n Raptors...

[StaytheCourse]

Young Gunz is good. I also think its appropriate for them to have a nickname.

We need to have an identity of some type. Its not like our roster is weighted down with superstars.

Fly'n Raptors is brutal!

[Buddahfan]

Fly'n Raptors...

Well a number of posters are saying that this could be the worst Raptors team ever with only 20-25 wins.

So why give the worst Raptors team ever the worst nickname ever?

[Raptor4Ever]

"young busts"

[JoePanini]

Why don't we wait for them to do sick alley-oops and the first words that come out of our mouths becomes their nickname?

[Balls of Steel]

How about, "Dash Brotherz". D.A.S.H means DeMar Amir Sonny Hype. It's corny, hate me for trying.

[Apollo]

They (Weems,DD,Amir- Father Jack) didn't create the nickname Young Gunz themselves- Wills Richardson, a Raptor security consultant came up with it: http://www.thestar.com/sports/basket...rs-some-sizzle

Folks have no idea yet talking like they do- get a clue.lol

Is that any better than them coming up with it themselves? The girl who serves me coffee at Tim Horton's calls me "Sir" so , you know, by all means call me Sir.

Maybe it's just me but I feel Raptors fans give out too many nicknames. Maybe I have an old school outlook on it but I feel you should earn a nickname and it should be coming from somebody higher on the totem pole than the guy who escorts them to the bus or supervises people who escorts them to the bus.

[RaptorRoo]

I like the "Young Gunz" moniker and I think it gives them something to live up to for the franchise and the fans. The "z" on the end gives it a cool twist, now they better not make us all zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz this season watching.

[RaptorsFan4Life]

Young Gunz is the best well at least until they get old then they'll be the "old gunz".

Yes I know that wasn't very funny.

[SirChillyMost]

Is that any better than them coming up with it themselves? The girl who serves me coffee at Tim Horton's calls me "Sir" so , you know, by all means call me Sir.

Maybe it's just me but I feel Raptors fans give out too many nicknames. Maybe I have an old school outlook on it but I feel you should earn a nickname and it should be coming from somebody higher on the totem pole than the guy who escorts them to the bus or supervises people who escorts them to the bus.

Who are you to dictate the conditions under which who gives whom a nickname? Your analogy isn't comparable in the slightest it's just some self serving rhetoric to rationalize your point of view which is facetious in nature to begin with, sir.

The guy who escorts them to the bus or supervises people who escorts them to the bus- as you so eloquently put it- is also considered a friend by the YG'z. Anyone who follows the Raptor's should know the story as it was documented on a RapsTV segment concerning the origin of the Young Gunz nickname str8 from the YG'z & Mr Richardson's mouths.

That being said to each their own........

[Apollo]

I'm not trying to dictate anything to anyone. What I'm saying is that I think it's silly that we feel compelled to place nicknames on everything. I think the "Young Gunz" nickname at this point in the game is on par with the silliness of the "banger bros". Those kids haven't proved a thing yet and here we are giving them nicknames, which in my opinion typically goes to guys who have done something and serves as a badge of honor.

[LBF]

How about "The Sense Of Entitlements"? Seriously, don't players typically have to earn nicknames? Its pretty sad in itself that they had to create their own current nickname. I'm pretty sure it's clearly stated in the nickname handbook and guidelines that it's douche baggery to invent your own nickname. I've let it slide until now but this thread, I don't know, it's time to let it alllllll out!

especially, with guys like julian wright and joey dorsey apart of it now.

who?

exactly. people don't even know who they are and that comes form raptors fans.

[Apollo]

Yeah and on a good team Amir and Sonny would be at the end of the rotation... No wait, on a good team Sonny may not even be playing because he probably wouldn't have even gotten a chance last year. DeMar, who I am very high on, doesn't even deserve a nickname yet (in my honest opinion which I am not forcing on anyone) and he is hands down more athletically gifted and talented than the other two.