Phoenix Paper Prints Story Based on Fake Blog Post

The NBA All-Star game is being held in Phoenix, Arizona this weekend. With thousands of basketball fans descending on the city, if you were the editor of an alternative paper in the area, wouldn’t you run a cover story about the sport? Of course you would.

That’s exactly what the Phoenix New Times News did with its story on NBA players and the tattoos that love them. In it, reporter Niki D’Andrea mentions a FoxSports.com report that claimed the NBA was pursuing a so-called “tattoo cap.”

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