I am sick of (as stated in the Tristan Thompson thread I started for a nickname after the draft I think T2 or the Terminator won? can't remember) just using the person's name. I hate hearing initials. It is just so lazy. Probably because of TV, I'd imagine back in the day on Radio to fill air-time you needed unique and colorful nicknames to keep people listening. (For more on that read Amusing ourselves to Death ie about TV hurting how we communicate.)
I have a few ideas or things to play on. I think it is all good fun to make fun of everything Lebron was about, when you think back, has any athlete (without a ring) ever had the audacity to say he spoiled his fans/ that we are lucky (implied) because we get to "Witness" his greatness.
Most Obvious: The Kyzer (and is a play on the whole King thing which I don't think should be taboo, I think we as clevelanders are afraid to be bold in sports, Lebron said FU to us on TV (first in his play, then "his" day", and made it more clear in GQ he hates Cleveland from what I remember because Clevelanders didn't respect people from Akron in pick-up games? Only in his world would this make sense).
Funniest and Plays on "Witness"
"The Decision" - ie throw it back in everyone's face. Not far off from names like the "answer" anyways. Is funny, and a good statement. Ie we are do not want the league's sympathy, we want them to hate us because we win, because we have a great decision-maker. Similar (and a play on the whole witness thing)
The Jury- They decide whether witnesses are credible
The Closing Argument- you get last say after witnesses
Ky-Redirect (ie witness on stand, you get your crack at disproving them on re-direct, think my cousin vinny, where he impeaches every witness and disproves the prosecution's case with his questions on re-direct (well really Cross Examination, but Ky-Redirect works better))
Ones that I think would be cool:
The Maestro
Ghost
Rorschach
Sosa (when Tony in Scarface gets too big and screws him (in Miami) Kyrie Sosa works too)
The Blueprint
The Design
The Architect
The Freshman
The Cure (to Lebron or any synonym that works),
Blue Smoke
The Revolution (Brutus killed Caesar, he got his from Augustus Caesar in Civil/Revolutionary war/ We threw out the monarchy in ours, not to mention Purple Rain is a pretty awesome movie, and Dave Chappelle's sketch that includes Prince (charlie murphy's stories) (Prince's) is the Revolution)
Getting Heady
Macbeth (Written During King James Reign (near enough), Macbeth kills the King).
Warlock (Wizard is taken, also Shakespeare thinking Prospero and how he got screwed by his brother)
The Coup (anything about throwing out the old and change works well, the Coup, I like the Irony because of the "weak" class, hope he's the kind of kid who wants to dispprove that and "take-over")
The Duke of Coup (sounds like Duke of Cool)
The Glorious Revolution (what the overthrow of King James II was called)
Still thinking. LOL. Ones tat work with his name but I will never call him or anyone KI or something similar, let's get back to nicknames that mean something!)
So. . . will probably edit LOL.
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Mr. Class (hope he would live up to it Kevin Durant probably deserves it)
The Highlighter (Like "Highlander" and Irving is a Scottish Surname) . . .
"Kyrie, eleison" (or "Lord, have mercy") (In Latin not pronounced same way)
Ky-Replay
Ky-reaper
Ky-rebuilding HEH
Ky-re-deemer
ky-re-fuse to lose
etc. etc. There are waay too many plays on words and things that mak sense to end up with K.I.