Let's nickname Yao!

My virgin thread!

It's the 5th year since Yao entered NBA and became a rocket. But he still has not been OFFICIALLY nicknamed, though he does have several occasional monickers in media or on this board, a non-exhaustive list of which I’m briefly going through as below:

 The Dynasty—firstly appeared on NBA.com and also favored by SF3
 The Greatwall—Bill Worrell’s favorite reference to Yao
 Shanghai Kid—occasionally seen on this board before
 The Giant—the most frequently used in Chinese media
 Yaozilla—invented by some fan on the board

And Chinese fans have a longer and way more interesting list of nicks for Yao:
 Big Angel—Shanghai Sharks fans used to call Yao this
 Ming Emperor—there was a dynasty called Ming in China’s history
 The Fiend—to his opponents, of course
 Godzilla—you know the movie series
 Godfather—the ancient Persian Mani religion was converted into a gang-like organization and also named Ming when entering China
 ‘Little’ Ming—not to mock Yao’s size, but that ‘Little Ming’ is a very common (also kinda genial) name in Chinese like ‘Tom’ or ‘Jack’ in English
 The Dragon King—Dragon is China’s totemic image
 Big Yao—as plain as it sounds
 Beard Ming—based on Yao’s vow that he would not shave his beard if the Chinese national team didn’t make it to the quarter-final at Athens Games in 2004
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Now, let's unrein our imagination and creativeness to nickname Yao! And hopefully we could make it prevailing and official, and Yao himself could make it sound as outsanding as those like "Air", "Dream", "Cap", "WIlt the Stilt", etc.

 

I agree! But, you know, I thought it would be good if we could come up with sth interesting~~~

 

Your call!

For me, 'Big Angel' sounds the best out of the list, although I've never watched Shanghai Sharks play.