I’m not really up with the tattooing trends of today, but it’s beginning to seem that “giving yourself a tagline across your shoulder blades where your name would go on a jersey” is the new “giving yourself a tagline across your stomach like Pac and Nas.”
Logistically, it makes sense. There’s more space, so you have a few more characters to work with.
Michael Beasley is the lastest addition to the club and his is particularly interesting in that he paid homage to the Nas’ “God’s Son” belly tat but relocated the words to a trapezius canvas. (via Red’s Army)
Much like Tupac’s “Thug Life” piece (and, later, Nas’ “God Son”) popularized the stomach tat trend, 50’s “South Side” (of Jamaica, Queens) piece probably helped spur this new phenomenon.
LeBron probably has the most famous one (via Slam). Unrelatedly, I saw the theatrical trailer for More Than a Game, the upcoming documentary about his Akron, Ohio, high school basketball team, last night prior to The Hurt Locker (which was excellent). It looks really, really good.
Meanwhile, Bron’s “arch-rival” Deshawn Stevenson got one of his own. (via DC Sports Bog)
This isn’t a real tattoo, but Sideshow Varejao poked some fun at his teammate one day during practice. (via Shaver Sports)
Jameer Nelson has embraced his inner Tupac.
Brendon Jennings is similarly repping a Lil Wayne slogan.
Vince Young isn’t in the NBA, but he does have his name on his back.
Some Chinese Olympic badminton player named Cai Yun is the “Face of Adversity.”
As most of you probably know by now, LeBron had a potentially game-winning shot against Washington nullified yesterday by a ref whistling the Chosen One for a walk. Here’s the video of the move, which pretty much everyone aside from LeBron — who claims it was merely a routine “crab dribble” — sees as him taking three steps. (Video, which annoying won’t play in high quality, via Slam)
Regardless of your interpretation on the play’s legality (meaning, whether or not your a Cavs fan pretty much), the Wizards have plenty to say.
“I definitely knew he traveled, but I didn’t think they were gonna call it,” Caron said. “You know, two years ago, looking in hindsight, it was the same thing that happened in the playoffs. And we get that call, who knows what would have happened with everybody healthy. But that was one of them situations in which a great player made a move, good officiation, and they called the call. And I was just like, ‘Aw, man. There is a God. There is a God.’”
Or for those of you into the whole brevity thing, DeShawn Stevenson offers his subtle analysis.
“I don’t like him. I don’t like that dude.”
And while that’s pretty awesome, you’d think it even better if you saw what he was wearing at the time. I unfortunately don’t have an image, but it was a self-described by the Locksmith as a “throwback, 80s, velvet, beanpie suit…with a bow tie.”
And that right there, ladies and gents, is Exhibit A why you don’t waste your Sunday afternoon watching Ravens/Dolphins.
As is common knowledge amongst the Both Teamsters Union, we don’t have a lot of rules around here.
But one law that is simply unbreakable is that any time an interim coach quotes a guy with the back of his bullet hole-ridden jersey tatted on his back saying “swag” we break our temporary posting hiatus (see the next post) to share it with the world. That’s just how we roll.
[DeShawn] Stevenson, who has started 189 straight games since joining the Wizards for the 2006-07 season, will come off the bench Tuesday against the Charlotte Bobcats. Stevenson is shooting 31.7 percent from the field this season.
“In a real team gesture he basically told me: ‘Tap, I’m struggling a little bit. Why don’t you let me come off the bench and see if I can’t get my swag back,’” interim coach Ed Tapscott said.
Honestly, I’m not sure what’s more fantastic: (1) the fact that Locksmith calls his coach “Tap” or (2) that Tap quotes DeShawn calling him Tap. But, mostly, I just wish we had video of him saying this.
With that, I’m back to sabbatical status.
It's gonna be awesome when he gets traded to the Celtics, Nuggets or Kings.
“By the way, I won the beard contest with Drew Gooden. He cuts his. I need my money, too, Drew.”
Drew has not been deterred, however, and has come back with a vengeance. And this commitment, dedication and desire to look like a fool has inaugurated him into Great Moments history.
“There are two kinds of people in this world that go around beardless — boys and women — and I am neither one.” – traditional Greek saying
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