Baron Davis
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446 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 1 Jan
Baron Davis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, it's, yeah, it's like my, I would say my grandparents, I watched them be, taken advantage of by their kids. They opened their house. My grandfather, if you were walking in off the street and needed food, they would feed you. You know what I mean? My grandmother's like, go get them something to eat. This dude over here, he look like go get him something to eat. That's where that love was.
People stopped by our house all the time whether you were up, you were down, you were good, you were bad. It was just almost like this big therapy place and it was home for a lot of people and it was safe. Even when you was out in the street doing all the bullshit, you run back to the house because you know anybody come around this little gate and border, oh, it's action.
So that brought so many different people into my world, like random shit every day. You know what I mean? Credit card scam. Right there on the table. Hey, let me get one of them credit cards. Get your ass out of here. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like damn, I can't get a credit card, go shopping, I get in trouble, I get a whooping. You know, drugs, violence, gang violence, all kind of violence.
Like, you know, like watching my dad and my mom fight and like my mom, and then now I'm sitting in the backseat with my mom going to the hospital. You know what I mean? I could kill somebody. I could kill him. I could kill my mama's boyfriend. I'm eight years old. This is what I'm thinking. Outside of basketball and everything, the dark side is I should kill him if he goes to school.
Yeah, just saying like you mistreated my mom. I don't like my mom because she being mistreated. It's not, you know what I mean? And then like, man, I should, when this dude goes to sleep, I'm going in the kitchen, getting the biggest knife I can and I'm going, it's over. You know what I mean? What kid needs to be thinking about that? You know what I mean?
And you thinking about like, if I decide to do this, I better do it and be successful or he's gonna kill me. You know what I mean? And I think my grandparents just was like, once I got with them, it was just like, I was protected. My grandfather, My grandmother, like me and my little sister, we start becoming protected. We start feeling safe, you know what I mean?
We start to like be more of a kid now all the vices and the shit that was coming, we got to now a chance to sit back and watch people like TV instead of being in it, you know what I mean?
I mean, I would say even before that, you know, you're four or five, six years old, you're living on the streets. You're walking in standing motels, right? So it wasn't, it was survival, right? And as a kid, you just, you kind of like, you got to trust the person you with because like where else the fuck are you going to go? You know what I mean? Like who else do you trust?
And so I think all of that happened Kind of like when my grandfather built my basketball court for Christmas and like basketball kind of came into my life, it kind of numb me from people because I had I had an instrument that didn't require anybody's help. I didn't have to tell anybody what I was doing. And like this, this was kind of like my therapy, but like.
Being in this survival mode, right, where it's like you don't know what's going to happen the next day. Like, you don't know what's going to happen. You know what I mean? It's like you wake up and you're like, okay.
You're waking up not knowing what the hell you're gonna do. You go to school, if it wasn't for school, that was, but kids in third, fourth grade, they ditching, cutting class, getting suspended. So that shit was normal. That was normal.
So my dad passed away. He actually passed away the night before a Laker game. And that was the first game that I had invited him to.
Yeah, I got to a point where, you know, I hated my dad a lot. I hated him a lot, and I didn't want nothing to do with him, I was embarrassed, and like, you know, it's one of those things, it's like, damn, like, oh, now you wanna show up, because I'm balling in high school, I'm about to go pro, you know, and,
for him, I just think he was really just like always happy for me and was like, oh shit, this is my son, you know what I mean? And it was like three or four years I was in the league and then something hit me and I was at a game and I was like, yo, everybody here got dads. All my teammates had dads. Like fathers, like real, I was like, damn. You know, Paul Silas, you got Steve Silas, it was like,
They going to dinner with their dad. Their dad come in. I was like, shit, man. I ain't got no goddamn daddy. I do have a daddy. Maybe I can help him. And so I went. I called my dad. I was like, bro, don't even trip. I forgive you. It could be because if you chose a different path and you chose to be active in my life or try or even give an inkling of trying, I probably wouldn't have made it.
So I gotta thank you, bro, for showing me all this shit, putting me through all that shit, because it made me who I am. And I don't hold any more animosity to you because I made it. So it wasn't like a despite. It was just like you helped me get to where I needed to go because of how you were.
And on top of that, I'm about to do you one better, homie. I'm about to come back. Now, you about to get your shit together. And I want you at these games because I want people to say, oh, this is my daddy. You know what I mean? And I got questions. You know what I mean? I got questions. do you got a lump right here on the back of your neck? I got questions, like who am I in relationship to you?
And so when I made amends, and we were talking, you know what I mean? It was awkward, but it was also like, damn, I know that was him, I didn't pick up the phone on the first one, but I'll call him back, you know what I mean?
It was almost like if they were proud of me, I would have been more upset. Why is that? Because that's where my angst, like that's where my interpretation, you got to think, I'm trying to interpret this shit myself. So if they would have been proud, like my dad showed up to the game, I remember in high school, and he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He was like rooting for me and shit, cheering for me, telling people he was my dad. And I kicked his ass. I told him, man, you got to go, bro. Like you tripping. You know what I mean? Like, you ain't been around. Oh, I see. And you gonna pop up and you cheering for me like, get your ass out. You haven't earned this. You've been embarrassing me. I was just mad. You know what I mean?
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