Terry's Championship Ink

Over the last month or so, we've covered a few different NBA tattoos, including one that honors a video game character and one that celebrates a family tree.

As the NBA Finals are ready to tip off tonight, the ink in the spotlight is Jason Terry's Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy tatt on his right bicep.

Before a preseason game last fall in Orlando, Terry's teammate and tattoo connoisseur DeShawn Stevenson hosted the team at his home and brought his personal tattoo artist in for the players. Terry decided to get the championship trophy tattooed on his arm showing the team that they had a legitimate shot to win the title this season.

Terry was so confident in his team that he left room on the trophy for more ink so he could fill in the date of the championship. However, the Dallas sixth-man told reporters on Sunday that he will get the tattoo removed if his squad loses to the Heat in the NBA Finals.

"I definitely know that it will hurt worse if I have to take this thing off than it did putting it on," Terry said, according to ESPNDallas.com's Tim MacMahon.

"When he first got the tattoo, I said he was crazy," Stevenson said of the tattoo that is on the inside of Terry's arm. "I didn't say it to him. But I've never been to the [NBA Finals], and for him to have that now. Wow. And he got that tattoo in October, and it means a lot with what we've been through."

The Mavs face the Heat in Game 1 of the NBA Finals tonight at 9pm ET on ABC.