Allen Iverson's Tattoos
After spending some time checking out the Sports Illustrator gallery of sports player's tattoos I stopped at Allen Iverson and thought to myself - why is he always wearing that arm band? With all the tatoos he's got there must be something he's hiding. A quick Google search led me to a page where someone spent time going over each and every one of Iverson's tattoos. Unfortunately the pictures are small and poorly compressed but the effort is certainly commendable.

Somewhere else I learned that under the sleeve is a black panther. A bit more searching answers some other questions - namely where all these tattoos have been showing up from in basketball in the first place. Growing up, no basketball player had tattoos. Gradually Dennis Rodman flipped his lid but that's about it. I guess when I first noticed a shift was seeing Vlade Divac with a tattoo on his shoulder. 10 years earlier when he was with the Laker's he had no tattoos. I guess I was hating on someone who got a tattoo in his mid 30's only after it became popular...

Allen Iverson's Tattoos

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