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Los Angeles Lakers center Robert Sacre has been in the NBA for less than a season and only sees the floor an average of 6.7 minutes per night, so we know very little about the big man. What we do know is that he played college ball at Gonzaga and hails from Louisiana. We also now know that he is a huge fan of Snoop Dogg and DMX.

SLAM Online’s Marcel Mutoni shared the photo you see above on Twitter Wednesday, which shows the elaborate tribute to the rap game that Sacre has on the right side of his torso. That’s dedication if I’ve ever seen it.

With all the crazy athlete tribute tattoos we feature here on LBS, we tend to forget that it’s sometimes the athletes who are the ones paying tribute.

H/T SI Hot Clicks

When it comes to sports tattoos, it doesn’t get more realistic looking than this.

A guy named JD Baker shared a picture on Twitter of a Ray Lewis tattoo he got on his calf this week. Baker says he went to 15th Street Tattoo Studio in Edmond, Okla., for his work. As you can see, there is one shot of Lewis in pads, and another close-up of the former Baltimore Ravens linebacker’s face. At the bottom of the tattoo, it says “GOAT,” which is an acronym for “Greatest of All Time.”

Baker says he is going to get a tattoo of Deion Sanders on his leg next, and that he plans to make his entire leg a sleeve of tattoos with an NFL legends theme. Baker tells us he’s planning to add Drew Brees, and possibly a running back. It will be interesting to see who else makes the cut.

We have passed along a number of sports-related tattoos fans have gotten over the years. Some of them are pretty good, while others are pretty bad. This would definitely qualify as one of the good tattoos. It looks just like Lewis.

Photo credit: Twitter/JD Baker
H/T Darren Rovell

Pittsburgh Steelers fans are some of the most dedicated in sports, and many of them like to show their commitment in the form of body art. Very few, however, do it in as detailed a manner as he gentleman you see in the image above.

This crazy Steelers fan tweeted a picture of his Terrible Towel chest tattoo at Pittsburgh linebacker LaMarr Woodley, and Woodley did the right thing by sharing it with his 170,000-plus followers. If you thought the dude who got that Brett Keisel tattoo was insane, think about how long this tattoo had to have taken to complete with all that ink. Not to mention how badly it must have hurt, but I suppose pain means nothing to you if you love your team as much as this dude does.

As Ray Rice could tell you, no player on the Steelers is more passionate about the Terrible Towel than Woodley. I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy is Woodley’s new favorite member of Steeler Nation.

Thanks to SI Hot Clicks for the pic

What do you get when you combine Nick Saban and your love for Alabama football with the “Sons of Anarchy?” You get one of the creepiest back tattoos you will ever see, which comes to us courtesy of this Alabama hate group on Facebook.

As you can see, some die-hard Crimson Tide fanatic came up with a unique idea for a tattoo on his back that says “Sons of Saban” above some sort of grim reaper with an Alabama logo mixed in. There’s a lot going on, to say the least. But with Alabama fans, nothing really surprises us.

In terms of the weirdo scale, I’d file this tattoo somewhere between that Chiefs fan’s head tattoo and AJ McCarron’s chest tattoo.

H/T SB Nation via Game On!

Texas Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus was scratched from spring training action on Thursday because of “sensitivity” in his left biceps. How did his arm get so irritated? From being tattooed for hours.

Andrus spent nine hours getting a massive portrait of his father, Emilo, who died in 1996, tattooed on his left arm the past few days.

Though the work caused Andrus to miss a game and experience incredible pain, the young shortstop does not regret it.

“It was do it now or never,” Andrus told the Dallas Morning News. “I’m really proud of this. It’s something that’s going to be with me forever.”

Andrus says the tattoo hurt so much that it will be his last. At least he made it count, and at least he had a better reason for his health problem than this guy.

H/T Hardball Talk
Photo credit: Twitter/Elvis Andrus

Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Jacoby Jones is the latest professional athlete to get a championship tattoo, and it’s a big one. As you can see from the photo above that he posted on his Instagram account on Monday, Jones recently got a tattoo of the Ravens logo and the Vince Lombardi Trophy on his back.

The artwork has been ongoing for a while now, and the logo and trophy appear to be the finishing touches in front of a backdrop of the city of New Orleans. You can make out the Superdome in the background if you look carefully.

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One fan appears to love Jaime Edmondson so much that he got a portrait of the model wearing a Miami Dolphins shirt tattooed on his leg. We don’t know the circumstances for the tattoo, but we’re guessing it comes from someone who is a hardcore fan of both the Dolphins and Edmondson, rather than someone who got it after losing a bet.

Jimmy Traina first posted the tattoo on SI Hot Clicks Monday. He even got a comment from Edmondson about it.

“I’m flattered,” Edmondson told Hot Clicks. “I just hope any future significant others of his are OK with it.”

I can’t imagine why they would have a problem with it.

Here’s what the original photo of Edmondson in a Dolphins shirt looks like for comparison.

Photo via SI Hot Clicks