Baron Davis is LA to his core, so of course Dan had to meet with him on his home turf for a special LA-based episode of South Beach Sessions. Steeped in vulnerability, Baron dives into his life and career on a new level – from the streets to being an NBA All-Star. Baron cracks open his past - growing up in South LA surrounded by violence and abuse - detailing his journey through the care of his grandparents from poverty to one of the wealthiest schools in the country. Baron also holds nothing back about his chaotic time with the Clippers – all the behind the scenes drama and destruction created under Donald Sterling’s ownership. Join the members-only Business Inside the Game (BIG) community, founded by Baron Davis, at teambig.io. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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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.
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