nba钱为什么要加an(最全的NBA各支球队名称的意义以及来源)

1.雄鹿

This team's nickname was selected from more than 14,000 contest entries, and the winner was R.D. Treblicox of Whitefish Bay, Wis. His choice of Bucks for the club that entered the NBA in 1968 won him a new car.

Contest judges chose a name that reflected the fish and game area "because it is indigenous to Wisconsin," said then-General Manager John Erickson.

代表威斯康新地区和娱乐的文化

2.山猫

The Charlotte Bobcats logo depicts the spirit of the new franchise, illustrating the team’s aggressive hopes and aspirations. The logo draws on the distinctive ears of the cat, featuring the animal’s sleek profile as if poised for attack with ears drawn back and fangs displayed.

代表一种凶猛和有激情的文化

3.公牛

Richard Klein, the Chicago basketball club’s first owner, chose Bulls as the nickname for his team when it joined the NBA in 1966, becoming the league’s 10th franchise.The name denoted strength and power, and it tied in to the city’s meatpacking tradition and the Chicago Amphitheater’s (first home court of the Bulls) proximity to the famed Chicago Stockyards. The one-syllable directness of the Bulls was also in line with Chicago’s other team nicknames—Bears, (White) Sox, Cubs, and (Black) Hawks.

“We were the meat capital of the world,” said Klein at the time. “At first, I was thinking of names like Matadors (funny how that worked out given today’s Matadors) or Toreadors, but if you think about it, no team with as many as three syllables in its nickname has ever had much success except for the Canadians. I was sitting around the house, kicking these names around with my wife and three sons, when my little son Mark said, ‘Dad, that’s a bunch of bull!’ I said, ‘That’s it! We’ll call them the Bulls!’ And that’s how the team got its nickname.

代表力量和韧性，同时也是芝加哥肉食品庞大市场的代表

4、骑士

Cleveland’s newspaper, The Plain Dealer, held a contest to name the city’s new basketball club.

Contest winner Jerry Tomko wrote that the Cavaliers “represent a group of daring, fearless men, whose life’s pact was never surrender, no matter what the odds.”

The nickname is frequently shortened to Cavs.

骑士是一群勇敢无畏的人，他们的人生字典里没有投降，不管在什么情况下。

5.凯尔特人

The birth of the Boston Celtics in 1946 coincided with the beginning of the Basketball Association of America, the forefather of the NBA. Walter Brown headed the Boston Garden Arena Corporation and named the new basketball team. Various nicknames were batted around, including Whirlwinds, Olympians and Unicorns.

But Brown wanted Celtics, explaining, “"The name has a great basketball tradition from the old Original Celtics in New York (1914-1939). And Boston is full of Irishmen."”

学过历史都知道，北欧有一直很强劲的民族叫做凯尔特人，此队名正是纪念他们

6.快船

In 1978, San Diego welcomed the relocation of the Buffalo Braves’ franchise because the city had lost their Rockets to Houston seven years earlier. San Diego team officials didn’t think Braves was a representative nickname for the club.

A contest decided on Clippers because the city was known for the great sailing ships that passed through San Diego Bay. When the Clippers moved to Los Angeles in 1984, they kept their nickname

是体现圣地亚哥当地的帆船文化，到LA后还保持该名字

7.灰熊

When the Grizzlies came into existence in Vancouver, British Columbia, prior to the 1995-96 season, the ownership group wanted a name symbolic of Vancouver and the entire province of British Columbia. After initially tabbing “Mounties” as the team’s name, a tribute to Canada’s iconic Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the franchise instead changed the name to “Grizzlies”. Grizzly bears are indigenous to British Columbia, and are a highly prominent icon both in northwestern native culture and Western Canada as a whole

来源于这支球队还在温哥华，为了代表加拿大BC省以及整个北美西北地区的原著民文化。

8.老鹰

In 1946, the National Basketball League granted a franchise to three cities along the Mississippi River -- Moline and Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa.

Because Sauk Indian Chief Black Hawk's tribe was located in Rock Island and a major part of the 1831 Black Hawk War was fought in the surrounding areas, the team was named the

Tri-Cities Blackhawks.

The club joined the NBA in 1949, and in 1951, the franchise relocated to Milwaukee, where the nickname was shortened to Hawks. The team moved to St. Louis in 1955, and finally to Atlanta in 1968.

印地安人黑鹰部落，以及1831年的黑鹰战争，由此得名，碾转迁移到亚特兰大

9.热火

When Miami was awarded an NBA franchise to begin play in 1988, team officials wanted to have the fans in South Florida involved in the naming, so a contest was held.

Among more than 5,000 entries submitted were Sharks, Barracudas, Flamingos, Palm Trees, Beaches, Heat, Suntan, Shade, Tornadoes and Floridians.

“The Heat was it,” said the team’s general partner, Zev Bufman. “When you think of Miami, that’s what you think of.”

无语，没有什么原因，就是球队经理从很多征集的名字中一拍脑袋就定下来了

10.爵士

In 1974 a contest was held to name the expansion team in New Orleans. Of the more than 6,500 names submitted, eight semi-finalists emerged: Jazz, Dukes, Crescents, Pilots, Cajuns, Blues, Deltas, and Knights.

来自新奥尔良，这里是著名的爵士乐的发源处

11.国王

The Kings' royal lineage stretches all the way back to the founding of the National Basketball League's Rochester Royals in 1945. The Royals retained their nickname after a move to Cincinnati in 1957 and became the Kansas City-Omaha Kings through a name-the-team contest in 1972. The name remained unchanged when the franchise relocated to California in 1985.

来自征集

12.尼克斯

The term "Knickerbockers" referred specifically to pants rolled up just below the knee by Dutch settlers in the New World during the 1600s. Many of these settlers found homes in and around New York City, where a cartoon drawing of Father Knickerbocker became a prominent symbol of the city. In 1845, baseball's first organized team was nicknamed the Knickerbocker Nine and the name was evoked again in 1946 when New York was granted a franchise in the Basketball Association of America. Team founder Ned Irish reportedly made the decision to call the team the Knickerbockers.

有历史呢，是来自一个形容当时丹麦移民喜欢把裤子卷到刚好膝盖以下的俚语。后来逐渐演化成今天的尼克斯

13.湖人

Minneapolis Lakers began play in the National Basketball League in 1947-48, moving to the Basketball Association of America (the NBA’s forerunner) a year later.

The nickname chosen for the team was based on the state motto, “The Land of 10,000 Lakes.” Even though there are few lakes in Los Angeles, the nickname was retained when the team relocated there in 1960.

始源于明尼苏达州“万湖之地”这个称谓，后来搬到洛杉机，也没有改，虽然这里没有什么湖了。

14.魔术

When theOrlando Sentinelsponsored a name-the-team contest for Orlando's prospective expansion franchise, Challengers—an allusion to the space shuttle that crashed in 1986—was the most popular suggestion. Other entries included Floridians, Juice, Orbits, Astronauts, Aquamen, and Sentinels, but the panel of judges, including Orlando team officials who reviewed the suggestions, decided to go with Magic. The name is an obvious nod to the tourism-rich city's main attraction, Disney World.

来自征集，主要是与奥兰多当地著名的迪斯尼乐园和旅游业相结合。

15.小牛

A Dallas radio station sponsored a name-the-team contest and recommended the finalists to team owner Donald Carter, who ultimately chose Mavericks over Wranglers and Express. The 41 fans who suggested Mavericks each won a pair of tickets to the season opener and one of those fans, Carla Springer, won a drawing for season tickets. Springer, a freelance writer, said the nickname "represents the independent, flamboyant style of the Dallas people." That's certainly an apt description for current team owner Mark Cuban.

来自征集，其实maverick这个词中文最好的翻译是“特立独行的”，不知道为什么成了小牛。

这个名字想代表一种独立，炫耀，霸气外露的达拉斯人

16.网队

The New Jersey Americans were charter members of the ABA in 1967. The team moved to Commack, N.Y., the following year and changed its name to New York Nets, after one of the most important parts of the basketball game -- the net.

Also, Nets rhymed with other New York sports franchises, baseball’s Mets and football’s Jets. Before joining the NBA in 1977, the team returned to the Garden State, kept its nickname and became the New Jersey Nets.

使用比赛很重要的一部分：篮网，作为队名，同时与纽约其它职业球队名称谐音，nets,橄榄球队Jets,棒球队mets

17.掘金

franchise was known as the Denver Rockets when it entered the American Basketball Association in 1967. The same year, an NBA expansion franchise named the San Diego (now Houston) Rockets began play.

After seven seasons, and with entry into the NBA looming, Denver team officials renamed their club. Nuggets refers to the 19th century mining boom in Colorado, when people rushed to the area, hoping to make their fortunes by panning for gold and silver nuggets.

It also refers to a team from Denver that played one season (1949-50) in the NBA.

代表着19世纪在可拉拉多州的淘金热，当时好多人来这里希望淘到金银块

18.步行者

this franchise’s nickname was decided on by the group of investors.

Indianapolis attorney Richard D. Tinkham recalls the nickname Pacers was chosen because it was reflective both of the state’s rich history with harness racing pacers and the pace car used for the running of the Indianapolis 500.

The team kept the name when it joined the NBA in 1976.

来源于投资者取名，与印地安那悠久的赛车历史相关。一名双关，即代表了驾驭赛车步行者，也代表了在Indianapolis 500上使用的赛车。

19.活塞

The Pistons trace their roots to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where they were known as the Zollner Pistons. What's a Zollner Piston? A piston manufactured by then-team owner Fred Zollner, who named the club after his personal business. When the team moved to Detroit in 1957, Zollner dropped his name from the nickname but retained Pistons. The name was fitting for the Motor City.

源于这个叫ZOLLNER的人将自己的活塞生意放入队名，后来搬到大城市底特律，汽车城使用这个名字也适合不过。

20.猛龙

The ownership group of Toronto's prospective expansion team conducted extensive marketing research across Canada in 1994 and held a nationwide vote that helped team officials come up with a list of potential nicknames. Raptors, whichJurassic Parkhelped popularize the year before, was eventually chosen over runners-up Bobcats and Dragons.

来自征集，喜欢凶猛的名字就对了。

像飞虎，华南虎，东北虎什么的。

21.火箭

In 1967, San Diego became the 12th member of the NBA. Basketball fans there were asked to choose a nickname for the team. Rockets was picked because it reflected the outstanding growth of space-age industries in San Diego.

Even though the team relocated to Houston in 1971, the nickname still fits because of the NASA space program’s operation center there.

圣地亚哥征集使用这个名字来表达当地飞速发展的太空时代工业，后来搬到航天城，这个名字更是合适了，

22. 76人

The Syracuse Nationals were relocated to the City of Brotherly Love in 1963 and the team was renamed the 76ers, an allusion to the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia in 1776.

暗指独立宣言在费城签署于1776年

23.雷霆

When the Seattle SuperSonics relocated to Oklahoma City after the 2007-08 season, fans voted on potential nicknames from an original list of 64 possibilities. Thunder was chosen over Renegades, Twisters, and Barons, and the name was extremely well received. The team set sales records for the first day after the nickname was revealed. "There's just all kinds of good thunder images and thoughts, and the in-game experience of Thunder," team chairman Clay Bennett told reporters. The SuperSonics had been named for an airplane called the SuperSonic Transport. The plane was to be built by Boeing, which had a large plant in the Seattle area.

当西雅图超音速搬迁到俄克拉荷马城2007-08赛季结束后，球迷们投票决定的潜在绰号来自64个可能的原始列表。雷霆战胜了叛徒，绕口令，和男爵，因为这个名字非常受欢迎。团队集销售纪录第一天的绰号被揭露之后。“这里还有各种好雷声图像和想法，和雷霆的在游戏中的体验，”球队主席克莱·贝内特告诉记者。超音速已经被命名为叫超音速运输机飞机。这架飞机是波音公司，它有一个大的工厂在西雅图地区建成。

24.马刺

Team officials wanted a name that reflected the Western heritage of Texas, so a contest was held and the name Spurs was chosen.

A group of San Antonio investors purchased the Dallas Chaparrals from the American Basketball Association in 1973 and promptly changed the team name to the San Antonio Gunslingers. Before the Gunslingers played their first game in their new home, the ownership group renamed the team the Spurs. Some accounts indicate that the name was voted upon in a name-the-team contest. It may have just been a coincidence that one of the team's main investors, Red McCombs, was born in Spur, Texas.

体现德州牛仔的西部文化

25.太阳

General manager Jerry Colangelo, only 28 at the time, settled on a name for his expansion franchise using a name-the-team contest in 1968. Colangelo chose Suns over Scorpions, Rattlers, and Thunderbirds, among the other suggestions included in the 28,000 entries. One lucky fan won $1,000 and season tickets as part of the contest, which included such obscure entries as White Wing Doves, Sun Lovers, Poobahs, Dudes, and Cactus Giants.

总经理杰里科朗吉洛，只有28岁的时候，使用名称的队的比赛于1968年科朗吉洛选择了太阳队在蝎子，嘎声和雷鸟解决一个名字为他的扩张特许经营权，其中包括28000项其他建议。一个幸运的球迷赢得了$1000赛季门票的较量，太阳这个名称打败了其它包括这样的名字：白翼鸽子，太阳爱好者，Poobahs，伙计，和仙人掌巨人

26.森林狼

The ownership group for Minnesota's prospective franchise chose Timberwolves through a name-the-team contest in 1986. The nickname beat out Polars by a 2-1 margin in the final vote, which was conducted in 333 of the state's 842 city councils. Tim Pope, who was one of the first fans to nominate Timberwolves, won a trip to the NBA All-Star Game. Pope submitted 10 nicknames in all, including Gun Flints. "I thought a two-word name would win," he told a reporter. The most popular entry in the contest was Blizzard, but the team wanted a nickname that was more unique to its home state. "Minnesota is the only state in the lower 48 with free-roaming packs of timber wolves," a team official said.

征集加票选而来，和另一个名称“北极熊”竞争胜出，主要都是体现明尼苏达冰天雪地的气候和文化

27。开拓者

In 1970, Portland was granted an expansion franchise in the NBA and team officials announced a name-the-team contest. Of the more than 10,000 entries, Pioneers was the most popular, but was ruled out because nearby Lewis Clark College was already using the nickname. Another popular entry was Trail Blazers, whose logo is supposed to represent five players on one team playing against five players from another team.

球迷征集而来，

28.勇士

When Philadelphia was awarded a charter NBA franchise in 1946, the owners decided to name the team after an old Philadelphia basketball team, the Warriors, who played as members of the American Basketball League in 1925.

Coast in 1962, and changed its name to the Golden State Warriors—symbolizing a team belonging to all of California, the Golden State -- upon settling into a new home in Oakland in 1971.

在费城被授予特许NBA球队在1946年，业主决定命名的老费城篮球队，勇士队，这是一个在1925年发挥作为美国篮球联盟的成员后的球队。

海岸于1962年，并更名为金州勇士队，象征着属于所有加利福尼亚州，金州的一个团队-在它进入一个新的家在奥克兰在1971年。

29.奇才队

In 1946, the Baltimore franchise was nicknamed Bullets after a nearby ammunition foundry. Though the team disbanded, the Chicago Packers -- who later became the Chicago Zephyrs -- relocated to Baltimore, and in 1963, the Bullets nickname returned.

In 1996, team owner Abe Pollin decided to adopt a nickname that portrayed a non-violent image, and selected Wizards. The name depicts energy and an omnipresent power, and brings to light what is hoped to be the wise and magical nature of the team.

在1996年，球队老板波林安倍决定采取一个描绘非暴力的图像的队名，就选了奇才。这个名字描绘能源和无所不在的力量，揭示什么是希望成为团队的智慧和神奇的自然。

30.鹈鹕

On January 24, 2013, the franchise announced it would rename itself as theNew Orleans Pelicans

这是一支新改名的球队，原因不是很清楚。