So let's be clear: It's the tats that make the man and not the man that makes the tats? And every baller choosing to sport them is bad for the game, bad for NBA ratings and just bad for the world?
Explaining why NBA ratings are up this year compared to season's past, sports columnist Jason Whitlock assures us of as much on the strength of scientific data and indisputable observations gleamed by such self-noted omniscients as ...... Jason Whitlock.
“No one wants to watch Larry Hughes or Delonte West play basketball. You don't want to explain to your kids that some millionaire athletes have so little self-confidence they find it necessary to cover themselves in tattoos to mask insecurities,” notes Whitlock.
Yes, it's all about finger-pointing in Whitlock's world, the fact much of Hughes and West's ink serve as odes to family and friends lost in the struggle having little bearing. And the hoops ratings bonanza? It shouldn't take a genius like Whitlock to conclude most hoops fan would rather watch Kobe dueling AI, Duncan and KG in succession than anything else that could be offered..
But logic seems to always elude Whitlock, the same man Verses grinds gave us the assertions hip-hop is the new KKK and Rutgers coach Vivian Stringer engaged in a pity-party defending her team against Don Imus. With the likes of Jason Whitlock serving as a national voice, tats maybe one of few true forms of expressions many have remaining.
-Glenn Minnis