Baron Davis
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 1 Jan
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You got to know when you say no, nobody going to be like, all right, you're right. How did you get good at no?
I never got good at no. I just started avoiding people, I think. You got to get to, yeah. I just think, I would say my mom finally got right when I was like 28, 29, like my ninth or 10th year in the league. And so that was like, I would say after that it kind of became a little bit.
Yeah. Pretty much. But like my mom was never really like in my life like that. So it wasn't like saying no to her was like, I knew what that was, you know what I mean? But it was also like going back to the person for the 4,000, person with the 1,000, now you got 500, you got 200, you got $5 or $10. You know, and now you got all these people And each one of them has a story.
The dude who needs $50 may have the greatest story ever and he just wanted a burger. But you're tired. You're like, man, I ain't buying you shit. And it could have been like your old coach. And you're like, damn, dude. You see an old coach and you're like, man, you should at least buy me a burger. And it's like, man, buy you what?
And it's all because you've had all of these little micro asks and micro stories. And so it just kind of like, it's still this world, you know what I mean? It's just now you're in the world where you got money, nobody understands you, nobody cares to get to know you, right? They only see and hear, and you can imagine how frustrating that was for me. You're an ATM. Yeah.
Yeah, me and my mom, great. We're great now. We talk every morning. She's been sober. She lives in Baton Rouge. I mean, we got a great relationship. Like, I would say, you know, In my NBA career, when I look up and say, damn, I may not make the Hall of Fame, you know what I mean? I don't have a championship. I played 13 great years.
And at the end of the day, like I'm sitting here, I got a relationship with my mama. You know what I mean? Like shit, it took this long, but like me and my mom, we rock. You know what I mean? And we talking, you know, it's like, so all the things that I'm starting to learn, you know, about my dad, I'm learning about me and like, you know, my mom is just, she's, she's great. She's fun. She's funny.
You know, she got a great personality and it's, and you know, it was worth the wait.
All right, I broke my ankle when I was in ninth grade, and then I came back playing like a week out of a cast because I wanted to get recruited. Roy Williams thought I was handicapped when he came and recruited me four years later. That was a funny story. So I broke my ankle. I didn't let my ankle heal because I needed to play. So I played literally a week out of getting out of surgery.
Then I wind up at UCLA tearing my ACL. After I tear my ACL, I get to the league. I'm okay. My rookie year, I have loose cartilage in my knee. But I mean, you know, when you growing up back in that era, you don't really like, you ain't trying to sit on the training table. You know what I mean? Ain't no load management, none of that shit.
And so I remember my first year, my second year, I would have like this, what they would call like a floating piece of cartilage in your knee. And so I would run and the cartilage would get in the joint and I'd have to jump
shake my leg on the court so I could mobilize it then I had a small little surgery then for that then I hurt my back the next year that really kind of fucked everything up like I had herniated l4 l5 this And then that was the year we played Chase McGrady, I got max contract, but my back was crushed.
Then I had to go play in the Olympics, not the Olympics, but the Goodwill, whatever, World Championships, that disaster team that they always clown. I was on that team. But I was also hurt. because I had fucked my back up, but I just never told people. I was just trying to like, all right, I can get this right before training camp. So I would say for me, it was always like, I never was 100% ever.
I don't even think I was ever 90%.
That was literally my life. So when I got injured, it was almost like, Now they have my attention because I don't have nowhere to go. You know what I mean? And so I would rush back to play.
Like soon as I can, I remember, and I'm sure coaches and teammates will tell you, like there was a lot of times that I was not supposed to be playing and I just, like yo, if I can walk and I can barely move, I'll be able to go out there and play. And I never thought about Like, it was just kamikaze. You know what I mean? It's like, fuck it, ride or die.
And then as you get older, you start looking at, like, got to take better care of your body. But my body was like, you know what I mean? And I remember being with the Knicks. Shout out to Andy Barr and the trainers and Dr. Callahan, Dr. Answorth Allen. They did my last surgery with the Knicks. But, like, when I signed with the Knicks, I couldn't even walk. I could not walk, Dr. Callahan was like,
you may not even play again, let alone, you may not be able to walk straight. I just hurt my back, I was playing, somebody hit me, my back went out and I couldn't walk. And she was like, if you work hard, we'll take a chance on you. But we don't think that you're gonna be able to play this year. But we'll get you right and we'll work with you. And it was the lockout year.
I was back in a month and a half. You've got an unusual pain threshold, I would imagine, right? Yeah, dude, I've been through so much pain that if I can get back on the court or any time I walk in the gym, that's my sanctuary. You know what I mean?
Oh, Roy Williams thought I was a handicap. He was recruiting Paul Pierce, and that was the week I was out of my cast. So I was ninth grade, but I was on the end of the bench. And I had a broke ankle. So the coach would only put me in in garbage time, and I just moved like that. And Roy Williams was recruiting me in front of my grandma, and he was like, man, you know, I got Paul.
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