Kevin Durant - nice guy, shitty tattoos.

I haven't really watched a lot of NBA basketball in the last, oh, decade, but I keep vaguely up on the highlights and some of the stories. Among the leading players, Kevin Durant: a good scorer, and a good player, and almost uniquely, not a turd of a man (See Allen Iverson, Kobe Byrant, Latrell Sprewell). He also seems moderately humble, and is the antisthesis of Lebron James, whose 'decision' ad was rightly mocked and still remembered with incredulity. Durant, meanwhile, seems to get on with it, with close friends in his team in Oklahoma city, a small city with what seems like a good basketball culture. He seems to just get on with it, does charity work, and even gave $1m to help with the recent tornado in OKC. Fair play to the man. I'm aware also that to survive in the professional US sports you either become a Christian or an Alcoholic Playboy: It seems that Kevin has gone for the former: check out these tattoos. The one on his back, which I couldn't find a whole picture of, is the more interesting, although there's something to be said for someone who puts a haunted house on his stomach. [source]

There's also this recent tattoo, spanning his entire back with some religious imagery and a bible quote:

Aside from the cost, effort and lack of imagination of guys who get tattoos (it must be nearing 100% of NBA players have some ink, even on the very dark guys who you can't even see them). What annoys me is that religious tattoos are utterly naff, and even strictly forbidden by the bible itself: "You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves." (Leviticus 19:28). What's my point? His tattoos are terrible, and possibly go against his own beliefs, which is stupid of him, although he seems far less cuntish than, say, Kobe Byrant or Lebron James. 

Hope you're all fuckin'grand.