Baron Davis

You just wanted to go to work.

Soon as your shit was over, you didn't wanna see nobody.

Imagine living as a basketball player and not wanting to deal with, it was literally like, yo, this is a job that I hate.

And when you go to work, your other teammates and homies are like,

damn man what's wrong with you you all right like you don't look good like and then you playing the game they're like yo what the fuck like what's wrong with you and your homies and your friends here in la who showing up to the games they're like yo we came to see bd play and it's like i ain't know how to play basketball no more yeah if i get talking to me like i can't there's got to be some joy around what you're doing there's got to be freedom for me there's got to be freedom

Artistic freedom.

Freedom, creativity, and like, I know what I'm doing out here.

You know what I mean?

I can't play.

Support it, don't undermine it.

Support, don't undermine.

Then the next year, Vinny Del Negro.

And you gotta think, the Clippers were going to have success because DeAndre, Blake, your cornerstones were getting better.

You know what I mean?

The younger guys were getting better.

And then Vinny the Snake, I call him Vinny the Snake because he a lion motherfucker.

I don't know.

Benny the Snake, you know, he was just positioning to keep his job so he could, like, he knew he had a good team and he could, they started bringing in the right people, like, once I left.

But I was like, damn, dude, all we needed was, all I needed was one Chris Paul squad, like the Matt, Jamal, JJ, give me that team, like, we're going to win a championship.

And I don't know if you're going to allow it. I'm going to see it. I'm going to see if you deflect. No shark dogs this time.