South Beach Sessions - Baron Davis
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Welcome to South Beach Sessions, West Coast style. I'm very excited about this one. I'm gonna call this man my interview nemesis because he only wants to show you so much of himself. He likes this creative process a little bit. You tell me whether I've got anything wrong here. Baron Davis, two-time All-Star, but so much more than that. Like, I don't know if two-time All-Star is the least interesting part of his story, but he's got more story to tell here. But I feel like what you have felt during the process of interviews over the course of your career A lot of gotcha, a lot of journalists trying to get you to say things and not totally understood. So you play with the form and don't actually reveal anything intimate because you are careful that way. So I'm hoping that over the course of this, I can get to know you a little bit better.
And I don't know if you're going to allow it. I'm going to see it. I'm going to see if you deflect. No shark dogs this time.
No, I'm going to see. Yes, during the pandemic, he just made a total mockery of everything that we were doing at ESPN in a way I found delightful because at that point we were ready to leave ESPN and I felt like you were in on the joke. But I don't feel like I've gotten to know what your actual roots are, not just L.A., but like how you were raised by your grandparents. How it is you got to where you are. And so these are meant to be intimate. They're meant to be biographical. And we will see how close you allow us to the truth here because you you're a very creative person. And I've loved to see what it is you've been trying to do in your city after from afar. Yeah. When I watch your career and I'm like. This guy loves LA, gets to UCLA, blows out his knees.
So that story doesn't go quite the way he wanted to. Gets to the league as a sophomore, way too early to get to the league. Then gets his dream with the Clippers and has a racist owner who makes everything awful. And you thought it was going to be something and it became something else. But I don't want to speak for you. I do want to get to the roots of how all of that was made. So let's start with...
how it is that you grew up in los angeles and what los angeles means to you because it seems to have the same pull on you that miami has for me yeah man i think uh you know when you grow up uh in a city like miami or l.a especially growing up in l.a um as i was saying this last night as a kid by the time i hit 10 years old i had been to like 13 14 funerals were kids, not adults, you know what I mean? These were kids, kids getting shot, kids dying, you know what I mean? And so I seen so much death, I seen so much drugs, I seen so much gang violence, I seen so much everything, everything you could imagine. You know what I mean? By 10 years old, right? Where I lived was like, it was, If you paid attention, you're in the worst fucking place in the, can I cuss? You're in the worst, I was in the worst place that you can be. And there were epicenters in LA in the hood where it's like, hey, if you live in this hood or if you live in this, you know, on this street, like you're pretty much never, like you're never gonna make it.
let alone seeing down the block, seeing around the corner, like, you know, welfare, you know what I mean? In and out of crack houses, in and out of we don't know where the fuck we at. You hang out at the park, you know, at 2, 3 o'clock in the morning. And then my grandparents just kind of like flipped the switch and gave me stability, gave me and my sister stability. So from that moment, I could do nothing but as a eight, 10-year-old kid appreciate The fact that I can go to bed and wake up and I can do that every day, you know what I mean? And not have to worry about, is the house being raided? Like, where the fuck are we going tonight? You know what I mean? Like, damn, it's just me and my little sister here. What happened to the lights?
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