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John Salmons is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the New Orleans Pelicans of the NBA. Salmons has a Chinese calligraphy tattoo on his right forearm. There are three Chinese characters combined together on his arm, it prounce "Gwan Sai Lau" in Chinese and it means "coroner" and "pathologist" in English, "棺材佬" is a regional dialect in Shanghai, and it has a very ominous, inauspicious meaning in Chinese culture. We have no clues why Salmons tattooed this chataters on his arm.
John Salmons
It is interesting that the Boston Celtics player Jermaine O’Neal, also has the same tattooed on his right innerarm.
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