But even in a pickup game, you can't expect the best athletes to want to join your team if your team already is populated by lots of short, fat friends who can't shoot, pass, run or defend very well. You may have a lot of fun playing with such a group. I know I do. But if you want to draw a crowd and maybe compete for a championship, you'll have to get some real athletes on your team. If the result is a team that you view as elitist, so be it.
Professionalism is a form of elitism.
The alternative is amaturism. And by the way, since you asked, I answer to my first name or my last name. I tend to think titles and honorifics are meaningless.