Firmly sitting up and attentive as he digs into his memory banks, Kelly Oubre almost transforms into a movie director as he extracts the scene from his brain.
The Charlotte Hornets swingman recounts his sophomore year at George Bush High School in Fort Bend, Texas. It was testing time, he said, when state-mandated standardized exams are administered.
“And I was exempt from one of my tests so I left school,” Oubre said. “I went to the tattoo shop during lunch, my free period, and then I got tatted. It was a basketball with thorns around it and it’s in hands and it says, ‘I do it for God because He is my savior.’ The reason I got that tattoo is because there was actually a basketball player, his name is D’Angelo Harrison. He plays overseas now, but he was really, really big in Texas and he was blasted. Like whole body tattooed in high school.”
