Athletes whose names will get you in the holiday spirit

‘Tis the season. As a follow-up to our critically-acclaimed and highly-respected Thanksgiving-themed list of athletes, we’re back with another, December-oriented holiday athlete gallery. If you’re feeling the holiday spirit, enjoy sports or just appreciate a great sports name when you see one, happy holidays. — Jeremy Woo
Athletes whose names will get you in the holiday spirit
Athletes whose names will get you in the holiday spirit /

Athletes whose names will get you in the holiday spirit

Jrue Holiday

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Layne Murdoch/NBAE via Getty Images

Not pictured: basketball-playing brothers Justin and Aaron.

Rakeem Christmas

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Ron Hoskins/NBAE via Getty Images

Frostee Rucker

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Christian Petersen/Getty Images

Matt Holliday

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Jim McIsaac/Getty Images

Johnny Jolly

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Wesley Hitt/Getty Images

Nerlens Noel

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Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images

Jon Garland

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Joe Robbins/Getty Images

Draymond Green

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Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images

Kyle Rudolph

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Tom Dahlin/Getty Images

Darius Slay

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Rey Del Rio/Getty Images

Neftali Feliz

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John Williamson/MLB Photos via Getty Images

Jesus Navas

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TF-Images/Getty Images

Christ Koumadje

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David Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

J.T. Snow

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Sporting News via Getty Images

DeMarre Carroll

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Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images

Angel Pagan

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Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images

David DeJesus

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Stephen Dunn/Getty Images

God’sgift Achiuwa

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Jim McIsaac/Getty Images

Le’Veon Bell

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Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images

Tree Rollins

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Andrew D. Bernstein/ NBAE/ Getty Images

Mike Tannenbaum

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Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images

Bart Starr

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Focus On Sport/Getty Images

Dwayne Bowe

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Nick Cammett/Diamond Images/Getty Images

Festus Ezeli

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Sam Forencich/NBAE via Getty Images

Gift Ngoepe

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Justin K. Aller/Getty Images

Royal Ivey

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Ned Dishman/NBAE via Getty Images

Scott Frost

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Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

Nazareth Mitrou-Long

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Ed Zurga/Getty Images

Naz, for short.

Maccabi Tel-Aviv

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JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images

Chier Ajou

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Chris Chambers/Getty Images

Jimmy Clausen

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Rob Carr/Getty Images

God Shammgod

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Doug Pensinger/Getty Images

Metta World Peace

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Adam Pantozzi/NBAE via Getty Images

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