Many different nicknames have emerged in the months since the Knicks signed little-known Mindaugas Kuzminskas — Kuz, Kuzia, Mindy, the Mindy Project, the Blond Bomber of Vilnius — but the Lithuanian forward already has a top-notch nickname for himself, per Marc Berman:
“It’s ‘Cheese.’ I’m smiling all the time almost. When you take a picture, you say ‘Cheese.’ That’s my nickname.’’
Cheese. That’s a strong-ass nickname. So that’s what you call him. That, or Cheeser, or El Cheeserino, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing. We have a different one for him over at P&T headquarters.