Baron Davis
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first heard Jan 2025
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And so they would let me listen in on phone conversations. Arm would be negotiating.
Because now you are super interested.
Yeah, and I wanted to know, I was just curious, what's so-and-so making? What's so-and-so making? What my contract look like versus Tracy McGrady versus Kobe? What's in his contract that's not in my contract? And so Bob Myers would let me read contracts or they would ask me for like...
you know different stuff like what did you learn from that you know our arm would let me sit in on baseball negotiations sometimes uh the uh he let me sit in on my nike negotiation for my shoe deal um oh and there's like so now there's just light spilling into the room on you on possibility like wait a minute i gotta do that yeah you know what i mean like this looks cool i want to be i want to be an agent you know what i mean like agents are cool you know what i mean they're having the right conversations
They know all this stuff. This is some shit that I can get down. Outside of like, I want to make movies, and they keep telling me, no, you can't make movies. No, you can't be an actor. No, you can't. I'm like, why can't I? I want to make movies. They're like, no, you can't do that. You're going to go broke. It's like, well, I want to be an actor. No, you can't do that. No athletes are...
It's like cameo roles. So that was like the other alternative was looking at Arn and just really studying from him, Bob. So I would say my first three years of the league was like one of the best internships because Like I had another safe space and work environment like school. And then on hoop, all I had to do was hoop at that point.
I went to Charlotte, so Charlotte was the Bible Belt, so I met great people. I met great people, met people who are family, but to your point, on the other side, it's like,
I spent all my time here in the gym and I tried to spend very little time being social or letting people have access to me in the first, I would say the first two or three years because anytime some shit happened, it was still the same drama. My mama and daddy still on drugs, you know what I mean? My family and my granny is still getting older, right? There's still like violence in the hood.
There's still like all of, like my world, is not like left behind. This whole shit comes with me, you know what I mean? And it just, because of who I am, everything else grows around it.
Going to Duke, yeah. And that's what I started learning in Charlotte was like, yo, like, These problems are worse now, you know what I mean? And I can't get away from them, so. Well, now everybody needs money, right? Now you're the one, you're the economy. I am everybody's lot. Look, let me tell you something, Dan. You know, I wouldn't even come at you like this, but you are my last resort.
That is the conversation. Yeah. Your best friend can call you, oh, what's up, Dan? What's happening, man? Man, you have an hour conversation. Call back the next day, like, man, you know, I really called you yesterday to, you my last resort, bro. I need like $1,500. I need like $700. I need like $3,500 to, can you bail someone out at $3,500? I need a lawyer. I need this, da-da-da-da, like,
Nobody's asking for $100,000. But a hundred or a thousand people are asking for $510, $12. You know what I mean? And it's not, you know, I learned it's not, now I learned it's not they fault, just people like, They're bold to ask, but you struggle with that no when you're young.
And it's not that the money add up. It's the ass start adding up. The story start.
The emotional drain starting adding up. Then when you are, then, like, are you making the right decision giving that person $4,000 when this person asked for $4,000 and said they'll pay you back? You know what I mean? And now it's like I already gave them money. I don't want to give them more money. But this person was probably the person who needed it and the person that's going to go on. Oh.
This person is gonna burn that bridge all because you felt good about like that's the homie or that's somebody that you felt like you had a stronger connection to in your past. So you make a lot of mistakes saying yes to people. And so no was like the hardest thing because if you told somebody no, they would really tell you how they feel.
And you have to. You have to.
Man, who am I? Like, I am, you know, I'm an enabler to everything that you want to do. And so, for me, it was like, ah, hell no, I ain't doing that, mama. Like, I used to call my mom, my dad, be like, what? I used to yell at him, be like, what the fuck? I'm in the NBA. Clean your shit up. Like God damn, like if I had a son like me, I'd be trying to get right because it's cool over here.
You know what I mean? And so it's like, it was that, it was that struggle. And so when you tell your mama no, man, it's hard. because you didn't ask me for a house, but I can't get you a house. You got these people with you. You know what I mean? I can't get you nothing because you got this to do with it. You know what I mean?
It's like, yeah, and then when I go to do it, I'm really trying to do it and help, and it's just like, it's a tug and pull. You know what I mean?
I don't even think she remembers, but I remember everything. You know what I mean? It was just like you get cussed out. You get cussed out. You get told like you don't care. You know, you get called names. But I mean, that's just the nature. You know, that's just the nature of that's the consequences are what come with saying no.
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