Near the end of his press conference Saturday afternoon, Jordan Clarkson lifted his shirt. The heavily tattooed shooting guard wasn’t showing off his newest ink—but rather a very long scratch down his right side.
“Even my tattoos can’t cover that,” Clarkson said with a laugh.
But rather than be mad about the scratch, Clarkson showed it off as a badge of honor. It was a representation of what practices have been like recently—a representation of what sort of team the Jazz want to be: tough and physical.
“Us going hard today in practice, we needed to get up and down.