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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I was just always mad. And until I made amends... Then when we were talking, I was like, man, you know what? I wanna invite you to a game. He was happy as shit. But at the time, he had emphysema, so he was kinda like fading.
And we played the Utah Jazz, and then we had the Lakers on the back-to-back, but I talked to him during my nap, like, yo, bro, you gotta come to the game, got your tickets, we come in tomorrow, I want you to come to the game, meet my teammates, yada, yada, yada. I'll never forget, the plane landed from Utah, Soon as the plane land, I couldn't even turn my phone on and it was ringing.
But my sister called and said, Daddy in the hospital. He may not be able to make it to the game before we left. When the phone rang, she was like, he dead. And then I was like, damn. And I remember sitting on the bus, Eldon Campbell, Derek Coleman, a couple of my teammates just put their arm around me. I was like, man, everything going to be all right. I was like...
Of course it is, you know what I mean? I didn't even know how to, I didn't know what to feel. It wasn't no feeling, it was just like damn, dude, this is, It's hella fucked up, I played in the game. But it was like, why am I thinking about this man like this? So that's like, you're wrestling with, do you love him, do you care, I don't care, I'm tough, I'm strong, like fuck all this shit.
You know what I mean? It's like you're building this persona and it's like, I don't know if I'm sad, mad, you know what I mean? Confused. Confused. But I remember getting on that court, Shaq came up to me, D-Fish, Kobe, everybody. By the time the game started. But they don't know any of this, right? They don't know what your relationship is with your dad. No, it's just now I lost my dad.
So everybody is like, damn, dude. Like you think about it, it's like, oh, I lost my dad. Damn, if I lost my dad, I got to reach out to BD. And they was like, man, you all right? I'm like, yeah. I'm like, you shouldn't be playing. I'm like, hell if I ain't. This has always been the place I escaped to. This is the only thing I got, dude.
This is like the only thing I know I have that I can do that I don't need anybody else to do.
Oh, man, it's crazy. It's crazy.
Totally. And he gave me something, too. You know what I mean? He gave me the opportunity to walk in or try to learn who he was. So, like, as I get older, as I get kids, you know what I mean? Like, now I got two kids, and all I think about is, like, damn, if I don't take my kids to school today, like... they're gonna look at me like how am I, you know what I mean?
Like if I travel and I'm gone for like three or four days at a conference on business, I gotta get my ass back. And so it kinda helped me like, understand him more, understand his life. I know nothing about his life. You know what I mean? Still. A little bit.
I needed to, but I never got a chance. And so it's like everything has been through, you know, discovery. Like I learned a lot about my dad at his funeral. At his funeral, everything I needed to know about him was three people got up and spoke. The three people that got up and spoke, I learned everything about this dude.
He had a drug dealer he owed a lot of money to, and the drug dealer was like, man, you know what, he's the only dude that, and he was a tough dude, he was like, yo, he's the only dude that got a fucking IOU credit with me, and every time I see him, he just smile and be like, hey man, I'll get you tomorrow. You know what I mean?
And so he was like, man, that dude was so goddamn charming and helpful.
Yeah, people give up and give a speech. So the guy who was his dealer and then his best friend.
friend who we roll with was like yo man like whatever we was doing and like every you know like we do it we party da da da but he would always get up in the morning and we read the Wall Street Journal the New York Times have a coffee and sit up and we were like yo what are you doing he's like man you gotta fit you know he was he was an intellect he was an intellect too and so he was like highly intellectual people say he was super smart and then people say he was super crazy like creative crazy
And my mama said he used to see things, you know what I mean?
Yeah, I got some of that. I would say creative. Creatively curious. I learned how to really just use curiosity as a learning tool. to understand people, to be able to forgive people, to be able to forgive myself, too, when I do wrong by people, you know what I mean? I would say that's how I kind of unlock my freedom, right, is understanding that there's a...
there's always two ways to look at the scene. There's a dark version and there's a Disney version.
Why is that though? Is it based on the pressures of success?
Yeah, for sure. Because you're not... you're determined to get there and so you don't really know. It's like basketball, it's like you may, you know how like the old coach comes like, oh man, you know, like the old coach is like mad because you haven't reached back to them or brought them along with you and it's just like when you're working, you're just .
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