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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Bro, it's crazy, Dustin Hoffman, Denzel, UCLA basketball team, all these directors, producers, that shit was like rockstar my senior year, it was crazy. People always, Kate Hudson and I are same class. We graduated the same class, so that's my home girl. One of my besties.
Yeah, I was going to go to Duke. I was gonna go to Duke. I was all set on Duke, I was big on Duke. I liked the way they played, I thought if I go to ACC, you know what I mean, like ooh, just like the way they flow, how they play defense. And then I got started getting recruited by Duke, and then Coach K's mom, his mom started getting sick, and then this the first time I gotta leave home.
So I'm thinking like, All right, if I go to Duke, I'm out of LA. I'm out of all the like, melee and, but I gotta leave my grandma. I don't know. You know what I mean? I don't know if that is the right thing. Now, if I go to Duke, I'm going to wind up being one of the best players ever at Duke. You know what I mean?
Just because of my talent, the way they play, the kind of talent that they had around. That would have taken me into strictly basketball, all basketball, be the greatest player you can ever be, and everybody else was here to help. You know what I mean? Or stay home, take care of granny.
There's a whole new generation of LA basketball players that have been coming to your games in high school, that's playing in middle school and elementary. I was like, man, I'm staying home with my homeboys. I wanna raise my young wolves up. I want them to see, I want them to still be able to go.
If I fuck around and go to Duke, they gonna stop giving tickets to all these kids that I was giving tickets to, their parents. You know, when I'm a prime time recruit. So I just thought about all that. And then when Coach K's mom got sick, I think he missed a visit. And it just like really sat with me. I was like, damn, dude, I felt for him. And I was so, like Coach K and I were connected too.
I started to feel the same thing about my grandma. And I think Coach K held that against me. He wrote about it in the book. I was like the hardest recruit. But I don't think that he understood that we were more connected than we weren't. You know what I mean? And so I always felt for him in that situation. But I did want to go to Duke. I ain't going to even lie.
But I decided to go to UCLA based on... All right, I'm here in LA. All right, here's what I have to do. Take over my grandmother, raise the next generation, be here. Like, you know, you have to make these little, you got to sign a contract either way.
Like Duke would have been the selfish move.
I mean, you think about it, it's like, damn dude, if I would've wound up at Duke, I would've got all the pub, all the hype, you know, national stage, right? At the time, nah, I don't regret it. Got Earl Watson, dog, that's my dog like shit. You never find an Earl Watson in your life, you know what I mean? Rico Hines, that's my dog, you know what I mean?
Yeah, Matt Barnes, you got Ty Ramazar, he an agent in the space now, but you ain't gonna never find no Earl Watson, so shit. Earl Watson, Trump, all of Duke, you know what I mean? Just my experience with him. and L.A. and the next Kizzy now you see Pharma and Drew Holiday and Russ and all these dudes starting to come to UCLA. It's like oh we back baby. You know what I mean? Lonzo Ball.
We built something in my city. Yeah we stay. We held it down and like These dudes just keep upping the levels. And so I get to be a fan of them, I get to say I went to the same college and played point guard, same as Drew Holiday, same as Russell Westbrook, same as Lonzo Ball, Darren Collison, Jordan Farmer, you know what I mean? Aaron Holiday, right?
And you started it, and you were at the forefront. Yeah, I was the transitional dude, right? Because nobody was, we had come off a national championship, and UCLA was still trying to recruit on a national level, and I was local, so it all worked out.
Yeah, I would say once I hurt my knee, it was kind of like, Damn, like I never had basketball. I never was like, the one thing I had every day was I can go play basketball. Once I got hurt like that, the only other time I got hurt before I was in high school, I broke my ankle and I told the homies I wanna start gang banging. You know what I mean? Because I was bored. Couldn't go play ball.
I was like, yeah, put me on. I want to be on the hood. So at UCLA, when I got hurt, it was just like, damn, I'm in college. I just became a total fuck-up. I would say that's the first time I gave up. I gained like 40 pounds. I was like 253. And I'll never forget my college coach, Steve Spencer, he came to my apartment. He was like, man, you over here. Like, you know, because in college I was cool.
You know, I had some bread. I had nice cars. More than one. But it was all, you know, all my own hustle. No illegal shit. Just, you know, no NCAA illegal shit. Just all my hustle. Yeah. And he came to me, he was like, bro, you fucking lazy, you privileged, you entitled, you was just hitting me up with all this shit.
I was like, wait, hold on, I am kinda like, at school, living like a D-boy, you know what I mean? And I'm not, you know what I'm saying? And so at that moment, it was like 5 o'clock in the morning, I couldn't swim, right? And so he would make me go to the pool. And because I couldn't swim, I couldn't tread water, and I couldn't swim laps, so the workouts were like impossibly hard.
Because it was just... like falling down, getting up, and so I had to learn how to swim.
Yeah, and that was the only way I could get in shape. So because I was like a bad swimmer, I got in shape faster because I was like doing all the shit I wasn't supposed to, getting like super tired. And, you know, I started working my way back, and then I came back my sophomore year.
No, not at all. Shout out to Arn Tellem, Bob Myers. They were my agents. I think I had good agents, you know what I mean? And Arn built a good family environment. And so when I turned pro, I would hang out at Arn's office every day. Or go to my workouts, go to office. Go to my workouts, go to apartment. But I would spend my day just hanging out in the office because I had nothing to do.
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