heypartner, sort of like a comedian, but less funny. I'll go with Vitaly Potapenko. NO other player has "italy pot" in that order embedded in their name.
I don't know much about basketball history, but I'll do my best to add the baseball names that come to mind: (old ones) Rusty Kuntz, Razor Shines, Oil Can Boyd, Rube Waddell, Catfish Hunter, Al Kaline, Rollie Fingers, Dizzy Dean. Those last five I remember bc they're in the HOF. (recent) Heathcliff Slocumb, Milton Bradley, Coco Crisp, Kiki Cuyler, Prince Fielder, Randy Johnson (the Big Unit, with the hard slider down and in, and a nasty mullet to boot...). Something about Yorkis Perez makes me laugh too. Or Yorvit Torrealba, all those catchers have wierd names. For NBA names, how about all those unfortunate souls whose mothers insisted on spelling their names incorrectly? Like Dwyane Wade and Antawn (pronounced Antwan) Jamison. And pretty soon they'll add Stephen (pronounced Steffen) Curry. Honestly why go through all that trouble when your kid is named Stephen? Just called him Stephen.
Stephen has always had the alternate pronunciation. Stef-en is actually the original. Its from the Bible.
He's not in the NBA yet, and he's a marginal NBA talent at best, but if he makes it, Longar Longar will be near the top of this list.
There are no degrees of uniqueness. Something's either unique or it isn't. Anyway, not an NBAer, but Meadowlark Lemon's a good one.
What's cool about the 4 sports is they each have their own style of names. NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL (and boxing, too) have classic names with a certain ring to them where, without even knowing the player, you'd be able to guess his sport. Try some crossover names. NBA names that sound like a different sport. Wes Unseld = NHL Happy Hairston = MLB Mugsy Bogues = Boxing
