Baron Davis

He was the number one pick, him and DeAndre were on their way up and Blake didn't give a fuck about none of it.

And so I was finally starting to see, hold on, these young kids, they just hooping.

I come from an era where I had to deal with owners and deal with all this shit and I'm seeing everything, they just seeing the gym, you know what I mean?

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 Levy 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 like 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 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 dude, 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.