Charlotte Bobcats 2010-2011

Tattoo percentage: 47% (7 players with tattoos, 8 without)

Did you know that Michael Jordan has a brand? It’s hard to make out in photos, but he has a Greek letter burned into his chest to represent his fraternity, Omega Psi Phi. In my imagination, Jordan is weird and competitive enough that this is an issue for players on the Bobcats, who have less tattooed players than most of the league. Even their tattooed players feel toned down compared to other teams, with the obvious exceptions of Stephen Jackson and Tyrus Thomas.

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Players with tattoos:

D.J. Augustin 
Has a touching tribute to his deceased grandmother tattooed on his back. A pair of hands hold a basketball beside the text “thanks for the rock” to memorialize his first ball, which was purchased by his grandmother for his fifth birthday.

Kwame Brown  
Has a tattoo below his right elbow.

Dante Cunningham  
As of his senior year of college (2009), Cunningham has nine tattoos, including one that reads “TROUBLE” on his left arm.

Stephen Jackson 
Proud owner of one of the most hectic tattoos in the league: the standard praying hands on his stomach, but in this design the hands cradle an automatic handgun. When asked about the tattoo’s significance, Jackson explained the design was literal: “I pray I never have to use it again.”

Dominic McGuire 
It’s tough to get a good look at McGuire’s open hands tattoo on his right bicep, but it looks incredible.

Joel Przybilla
Among his several tattoos are a basketball player on his right bicep accompanied by the text “Not in my house” and his wife’s name in a heart with roses.

Tyrus Thomas
Easily the most heavily tattooed players on the Bobcats, Thomas admits to disliking his first tattoo: “The name was just like the first one. I think a lot of people usually get their name as the first one. If I could do it over I wouldn’t. You know, I know my name.”

Players without tattoos:

Matt Carroll

Boris Diaw   

DeSagana Diop   

Gerald Henderson    

Shaun Livingston     

Eduardo Najera   

Garrett Temple

D.J. White