I trust basketball-reference for a lot of things related to the NBA, but player nicknames is not one of them. For example, the nickname listed for Corey Brewer is “The Drunken Dribbler”. Now, I didn’t watch a whole lot of his college career, so maybe they called him that back then, but I’ve never heard it while he’s been in the NBA. Not one time. It’s almost as bad as Channing Frye’s “Buffet of Goodness”.
I don’t get why we can’t just call him The Brewmaster and be done with it. Everyone likes beer, and we can pretend that he’s like a homebrewing prodigy who makes the most delicious IPAs flavored with mangoes or something. It’s socially relevant. “The Brewmaster”. Has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?