Why So Many Athletes Have Tattoos of the Joker: A Special Halloween Investigation

10/24/23 • 52 min

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The most important Joker on the court isn't Nikola Jokic or Novak Djokovic. Indeed, the most popular tattoo among our sports heroes is a villain, and PTFO correspondent Wyatt Cenac is here to interview them about it... as Batman... with a mask on. Could Joker Mode become the new Mamba Mentality?

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PTFO-approved content:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/shams-charania-nba-insider-the-athletic-new-york-times-profile.html

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/10/16/were-more-ghosts-than-people/

https://arielhelwani.substack.com/

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PTFO-approved reading

David Epstein's Range: https://bookshop.org/p/books/range-why-generalists-triumph-in-a-specialized-world-david-epstein/12472879

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