Once upon a time when the Chicago Bulls ruled the empire and the NBA forced its noble warriors of the hardwood to wear booty shorts into battle, only the rogue soldiers like Dennis Rodman sported multiple tattoos (http://www.hoopsvibe.com/books/in-the-paint-tattoos-of-the-nba-and-the-stories-behind-them-ar4292/image3901-7.html) . Welcome to the 2009 playoffs... or shall we call it the basketball inkfest? I think there's a tattoo artist in the locker room, writing on the guys at the half!
Does getting drafted by the NBA make you susceptible to a body art addiction? Players just don't seem capable of stopping with one or two tatts (http://www.usaweekend.com/09_issues/090208/090208sports-tattoos.html). Perhaps I need to start watching the games in hi def, because on my TV it doesn't look like anyone has particularly artistic or colorful body art. One guy looks like he went to a preschool art class and let the kids scribble on him.
I'm not anti-ink. I think Travis Barker and L'il Wayne are wishing the NBA would cool it with the ink. It's tough for the rockers, rappers and bikers to keep up (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mtv.com/news/photos/t/tattoo_030106/images/flip1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mtv.com/photos/mtv-news-social-history-of-the-tattoo/1483012/1567256/photo.jhtml&usg=__GT4430l_uny0f5ooAMwx0XMs7WY=&h=240&w=320&sz=20&hl=en&start=22&um=1&tbnid=av7rLsL8CFxKcM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtravis%2Bbarker%2Btattoo%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4ADBF_enUS261US263%26sa%3DN%26start%3D20%26um%3D1). I can understand plastic surgery addiction, exercise addiction, food addiction and video game addiction... but somebody is gonna have to explain the ink addiction to me.
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