NBA star Larry Sanders gets misspelled tattoo Larry Sanders will carry a permanent reminder of the important of checking his spelling. SOMEONE should have explained the "I before E except after C" rule to NBA star Larry Sanders before he got his latest tattoo. Sanders, a forward with Andrew Bogut's former team Milwaukee, recently attempted to have the word "Receive" tattooed across his left hand and thumb. But either he or his tattoo artist failed to consult a dictionary, and mistakenly switched the I and middle E around in a classic and common spelling error. And he was silly enough to post a photo on Twitter before realising. Sanders isn't the first NBA player to botch a tattoo and then show the world. Former league MVP Kevin Durant completed an enormous tattoo on his back with a verse from the Bible. But the final few lines should have contained the word "mature," which was instead spelled "mautre." Kevin Durant's botched tattoo (mispelled word middle bottom).