The Rap on Tattoos

october 16, 2002  04:51 pm
The Rap on Tattoos
As the start of hoops season nears, well over 50 percent of NBAers sport tattoos. David Shields reads what's written on the body. "A tattoo is ink stored in scar tissue," Shields writes in The Village Voice. Shields asks the heavily decorated NBA stars whether they'd let a company buy a tattoo on their bodies and the NBA if it would let them sell such ads.