Mookie Blaylock Nickname. Benedict, a basketball fan, also liked the play of mookie blaylock, a guard for the atlanta hawks that year, so the name stuck. Guard named mookie blaylock (whose given first name was daron);
Betts attributed his nickname mookie to his parents watching former nba player mookie blaylock. Benedict, a basketball fan, also liked the play of mookie blaylock, a guard for the atlanta hawks that year, so the name stuck. When little markus betts was just an infant in nashville, tennessee, his parents used to.