Media day in the NBA gave a lot of newbies, unknowns and ubiquitous presences (see coverage of Miami Thrice schmoozing at right) alike the chance to know and be known. Minnesota Timberwolves fans and players alike are well enthusiastic about their new addition Nikola Pekovic, who’s already generating hilarious quotes from his teammates with just his general badass demeanor and play.
Said Wayne Ellington: “I’m making him my new best friend.”
Said Michael Beasley: “I don’t think nobody has the guts to challenge Pek to a fight, nobody. Pek is 300 pounds, he’s 6’10” and he’s from Serbia. [Actually Montenegro, no? – Ed.] I don’t think nobody wants to challenge him.”
Said Kevin Love: “He wants to make friends with us before he knocks a few teeth out.”
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune goes on to make note of Pekovic’s “no-nonsense haircut and bicep tattoo that –”
To which BallinEurope interrupts, “Holy otherworldly phlebotomy, Batman! Look at that ink work!”
Seriously. Click here for a bigger version of the embedded photo above to get a decent look at the tatt: Bloody incredible stuff that, and it surely set “Pek” back quite a few euros. If this isn’t the greatest tattoo in professional basketball, BiE wants to know about it. Also, if you have a better image or a link to a closer-up shot of Pekovic’s work, please post it here.
In the meantime, enjoy your new inside presence, T-wolves fans. Maybe he can even induce some better play out of ol’ Darko…
Tags: Kevin Love, Michael Beasley, Minnesota Timberwolves, Montenegro, NBA, Nikola Pekovic, Nikola Pekovic tattoo, Serbia, Team Montenegro
After being a Euroleague star for three seasons, you discovered Pekovic because… some NBA people praised him?
Might aswell name it ballinnba.com
What are you talking about? He was the star for a while already, and that acknowledged here… Anyway – hilarious news
Should be really interesting to see how he looks overseas, because I’ve NEVER seen him being moved around here in Europe.
montenegrin, yes.
AM how you didn’t see him being moved around europe?????? he was in partizan where he learned by great couch vujosevic had fantastic seasons in partizan then moved for 2 seasons in PAO…
Haha, thats not what I meant
Should have been more clear.
I meant he is hardly movable from the post area – not many guys can match his size and strenght, the guys is a beast
I see
yeah in europe nobody can’t move him from the post ,but in NBA there are biger and stronger players,but i think he will be just fine around 15 points and 10 rebounds per game in NBA..
There is no NBA player other than Yao or Shaq that is stronger than Pekovic. Pekovic is way stronger than Dwight Howard for example.
Little closer shot of his terrifying-warrior-standing-on-a-pile-of-skulls tattoo:
http://www.startribune.com/photos/?c=y&img=1wolf0928jump.jpg
[...] Northwest Division Well, the Minnesota Timberwolves may not have the best European players in the NBA, but they certainly have some of the most notorious. Alongside holding the rights to the most famous basketball player not in the NBA, T-wolves GM David “Wrath of” Kahn also re-signed impossible-to-hyperbolize draft bust Darko Milicic to a gazillion-dollar contract based on a 26-game stint with the club during which Minny went 2-24; Nikola Pekovic is also aboard, which at least gives the Timberwolves a physical presence unseen here since Kevin Garnett left, not to mention one badass bit of inkwork. [...]
Here is the best photo of Pekovic’s tattoo that I was able to find.
http://www.fivemagazine.es/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Kosta-Koufos-Darko-Milicic-Nikola-Pekovic.jpg
By the way he is from Montenegro (Bijelo Polje), but he is an ethnic Serb and that is why there is confusion about it. You can even see that on his tattoo he has cyrilic four S (same as latin C) on the shiel of the soldier which means Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava (Only Unity Saves The Serbs).
Also, he is great player I’m kinda sorry for him that he went to NBA because he wont get enough playing time to show all the things he can do. He was top5 Europe players before he whent to NBA and now he averiges about 6-8 minutes per game in one of the worst NBA teams TWolfs.
One the other hand im happy for Darko. Keep up with and improve even more, because your cappable.
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