Baron Davis
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first heard Jan 2025
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And so it became, I start to realize, damn dude, these young dudes, I need to be more like them. I need to care less. I care too much, right? Because I really felt like, yo, by the time I get three years with the Clippers, we will be where the Warriors are, right? That was your expectation? That was my expectation going in. Don't believe he was the coach, so that didn't work out well.
No, you know, Elton Brand, I was supposed to go there with Elton Brand and then he did some punk shit and signed with Philly and didn't tell me that he was signing with Philly. So I had already signed with the Clippers. So I was like, fuck it, I'm going home. I had made my mind up anyway. But I did think that the Clippers had At the time, they were literally right there.
So it was like, if they were playing games, it was like eighth, ninth, 10th, seventh, eighth, ninth, 10th, it was all kind of like us, the Clippers, Denver, Golden State, all these new teams were trying to fight for positions. So I figured Clippers had the talent.
And with Elton Brand, you already got a big deal, so I can just, these next four or five years, I can just play traditional point guard shit, pass the ball, he get double teamed, shoot threes, and you know. So you go in thinking. I go in thinking like, oh man, I get to, I don't have to carry the team, you know what I mean? I don't have to do all the, I just play point guard.
I really just wanna play point guard and run offense and shit. I don't wanna do all this shit. That's why I went to the Clippers, because I felt like, all right, they got two big dudes. They got Coutinho, Mobley, you know what I mean? We got a cool four right now. Tim Thomas, we had size and talent and dogs. You just had a coach.
Once Elton Brand didn't come, then everything just kind of fell out. Marcus Camby we traded for. Marcus Camby show up to training camp Thursday and then don't show up for two weeks. He about to retire. I gotta go find Marcus Camby, sit with him. He like, man, fuck this shit. You know what I mean? Because Denver traded him. It's just all the shit that people go through. You know what I mean?
Right from the start, I could not walk in and play basketball. The very first day of media, the media guy comes up to me and say, look, he pulls me to the side, he said, I know you're having fun, I'm just gonna let you know, when he comes in here, don't get upset, don't get offended. He may or may not say something to you that'll offend you, or he may say some shit.
I'm like, what are you talking, this is media day, what are you talking about? I'm thinking a reporter. He's talking about the owner, dude. So he didn't say Donald Sterling. He just said he. He. He might come in here. He might come in here and say the wildest shit to you. Be careful. Don't get upset. Y'all in a good mood.
Because everybody would say, before I got there, when the season started, man, it's fucked up around here. Everybody has nothing but negative energy and negative shit to say.
I mean, no. Not like that. Yeah, not like that. All teams are dysfunctional. I just came from the Warriors. You know what I mean? When an owner, he'd be riding a bike when he hung over. You know what I mean? Everybody's got something. He was a hot mess. You know what I mean? But at the time, but not like this.
This was like, with the Warriors, like okay, that's the owner, you like him, you don't like him. It was a separation between what he does for the team versus what he do for himself. This situation was like, you cannot detach nobody from nothing. Everybody's a spy. Everybody's lying to move up or to save their face. And then Mike Dunleavy has all the power.
So he can literally say whatever the fuck you want to the owner or to anybody. Right. About anybody. And so like when you have leadership like that. It's a circus. I remember in training camp, I was like, man, this is fucked up. This is a circus. I ain't never seen no shit like this. I would say that every day in practice. I've never seen it.
I did not think that an NBA team could be ran like that. And you'd been some places at that point. You'd seen some. We had some bad years. I had just come off a bad year with Byron Scott where I got traded, and the Warriors was having a bad year, but it wasn't. Like, nothing was like this. This was like, man, Chris came in. We in practice. He grab a rope, lasso it around.
What I want them to do is pull the shit. Just all kind of people pulling each other's pants down, kicking water bottles over. It's like, man, this ain't no fun. This is a fucking circus show.
It was just every day it was dysfunctional. You don't know what the fuck you're doing when you go to work. You don't know if you got anything. How do you go to the gym and not play basketball? We wouldn't scrimmage. We would just talk, went through plays. It became who the fuck wants to be here? Now you talking about stress?
PTSD, imagine can't do what you wanna do, how you wanna do it, but all they doin' is just tellin' you what to do, tellin' you, it's like Groundhog, tellin' you what to do. And I felt sorry for the people like, you know, you think like, Jason Powell, he's still there, the head trainer. Like, this dude is brilliant.
This dude is doin' all that he can, right, to solve a problem because the players keep getting hurt and they keep tellin' him no. Right, and so I'm watching. None of the competent people have power to do anything. Crazy. Undermined. Crazy, and so now you gotta be, everybody gotta be a little sneaky to get some shit done to benefit the players, you know what I mean?
Or the players have to go and come back, which you don't care, you gotta come back to the gym to get extra shots, because you realize, man, I ain't got no shots in practice in three weeks. And so the environment that was created made you not want to be in the gym. You just wanted to go to work, soon as your shit was over, you didn't want to see nobody.
Imagine living as a basketball player and not wanting to deal with, it was literally like, yo, this is a job that I hate. And when you go to work, your other teammates and homies are like, damn, man, what's wrong with you? You all right? Like, you don't look good. And then you play in the game. They're like, yo, what the fuck? Like, what's wrong with you?
And your homies and your friends here in L.A. who showing up to the games, they're like, yo, we came to see B.D. play. And it's like, I ain't know how to play basketball no more. These motherfuckers talking to me. Like, I can't.
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