Chicago Bulls, 2010-11
Tattoo percentage: 47% (7 players with tattoos, 8 without)
The Bulls have one of the lower tattoo percentages in the league, however the surprise that clean cut Kyle Korver has one somehow counts extra.
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Players with tattoos:
Keith Bogans
Bogans has a tattoo of a bull, but not for his team: “I have one tattoo of a taurus on my arm. It’s a bull, it fits my personality. The other one is a panther with a basketball … I got that when I was a little bit younger.”
Carlos Boozer
Raised in Alaska, Boozer represents his home state with a tattoo of a grizzly bear. He didn’t leave himself out though, as the bear is surrounded by the text “C BOOZ UNLEASH THE BEAST.”
Ronnie Brewer
Brewer may lead the league in basketball tattoos, with one on each shoulder and a hoop on his forearm.
Rasual Butler
Early in Butler’s career, he got a tattoo reading “Against All Odds” on his left shoulder, circling the letters “SP” for his hometown of South Philadephia. During the subsequent ten years, he got the rest of his arm filled in with textures and a harp (?) but it’s nice to see the original design intact.
Kyle Korver
“We all have our favorite bible verse in my family,” explained Korver’s younger brother Kaleb in a 2009 profile, and the brothers both had their favorites tattooed on their ribs.
Derrick Rose
Not surprisingly, the sweetest dude in the NBA can made a story about getting his hand tattooed into a heart-lifting tear jerker: “I got my mom’s name with a rose behind it. Because her last name’s Rose—Brenda Rose—it’s not an ex-girlfriend or anything like that. She told me ‘don’t get it.’ Actually when I showed it to her, it was her and her friend downstairs at her house, I went out there. She said, ‘let me look at your hand.’ She looked at my hand and started crying, showing her friend, like ‘look at his tattoo’ calling me her little baby.”
C.J. Watson
Has tattoos of his family’s names on his right arm.
Players without tattoos:
Omer Asik
Luol Deng
Taj Gibson
John Lucas III
Joakim Noah: Noah is decidedly anti-tattoo: “I think that this is just a trend that Allen Iverson started. But I think that it’s almost like more unique now not to have them than to have them. I think that a lot of them are corny, to be honest with you.”
Jannero Pargo
Brian Scalabrine
Kurt Thomas
Chicago Bulls, 2010-11
Tattoo percentage: 47% (7 players with tattoos, 8 without)
The Bulls have one of the lower tattoo percentages in the league, however the surprise that clean cut Kyle Korver has one somehow counts extra.
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Players with tattoos:
Keith Bogans
Bogans has a tattoo of a bull, but not for his team: “I have one tattoo of a taurus on my arm. It’s a bull, it fits my personality. The other one is a panther with a basketball … I got that when I was a little bit younger.”
Carlos Boozer
Raised in Alaska, Boozer represents his home state with a tattoo of a grizzly bear. He didn’t leave himself out though, as the bear is surrounded by the text “C BOOZ UNLEASH THE BEAST.”
Ronnie Brewer
Brewer may lead the league in basketball tattoos, with one on each shoulder and a hoop on his forearm.
Rasual Butler
Early in Butler’s career, he got a tattoo reading “Against All Odds” on his left shoulder, circling the letters “SP” for his hometown of South Philadephia. During the subsequent ten years, he got the rest of his arm filled in with textures and a harp (?) but it’s nice to see the original design intact.
Kyle Korver
“We all have our favorite bible verse in my family,” explained Korver’s younger brother Kaleb in a 2009 profile, and the brothers both had their favorites tattooed on their ribs.
Derrick Rose
Not surprisingly, the sweetest dude in the NBA can made a story about getting his hand tattooed into a heart-lifting tear jerker: “I got my mom’s name with a rose behind it. Because her last name’s Rose—Brenda Rose—it’s not an ex-girlfriend or anything like that. She told me ‘don’t get it.’ Actually when I showed it to her, it was her and her friend downstairs at her house, I went out there. She said, ‘let me look at your hand.’ She looked at my hand and started crying, showing her friend, like ‘look at his tattoo’ calling me her little baby.”
C.J. Watson
Has tattoos of his family’s names on his right arm.
Players without tattoos:
Omer Asik
Luol Deng
Taj Gibson
John Lucas III
Joakim Noah: Noah is decidedly anti-tattoo: “I think that this is just a trend that Allen Iverson started. But I think that it’s almost like more unique now not to have them than to have them. I think that a lot of them are corny, to be honest with you.”
Jannero Pargo
Brian Scalabrine
Kurt Thomas
