On his left arm, below a tattoo of a basketball, Gary Trent Jr. has a portrait of his father, Gary Trent Sr., who played in the NBA from 1995 - 2004.
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On Trent's right arm is the cover of Spike Lee & Tonya Lewis Lee's children's book, Please, Baby, Please. Both Trent Sr. and Jr. discuss the importance of this book to their family in Jason Quick's February 2020 profile in The Athletic:
“Every night when he was little and it was time for him to pick out one of the books to read before bed, he would get “Please, Baby, Please,” Trent Sr. said. “So, everybody in the family started using that.”
It’s one of the first tattoos Trent Jr. points out, and as he traces the image with his fingertips, he speaks slower and lower as he explains the origin.
“This is from a story my dad tells me from when I was younger,” Trent Jr. said. “They say they would always go tell me to get a book, and I would always come back with the same one. And to this day, the family still calls me Baby Please, or B. Please.”
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Among the many tattoos on Trent's right arm is the text "BET ON ME" just above his wrist.
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