Baron Davis
Baron Davis
Baron Walter Louis Davisis an American professional basketball player for the Delaware 87ers of the NBA Development League. A two-time NBA All-Star, he was drafted with the third overall pick in the 1999 NBA draft by the Charlotte Hornets. He also played in the NBA for the New Orleans Hornets, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Clippers, Cleveland Cavaliers and New York Knicks. Davis played college basketball for UCLA, where he was an All-American honoree before turning professional after his sophomore...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth13 April 1979
CityLos Angeles, CA
Just whipping that ball around and sharing, guys knocking down threes. Team play is the most important thing to me. I'm not really averaging a lot of points. But at the same time, we're winning, I'm happy, my assists are up. It's fun when we share the ball and make the extra pass.
There's going to be some nights where he's going to score big for us and there's going to be some nights where he won't. His defense and his ability to be out there and to make plays without having the ball is going to be really helpful in the long run.
(In the fourth quarter), we put some people in who wanted to play. We got back to playing defense and moving the ball and going down low ... We have to do stuff like that. We have to play people that are going to produce.
We finally started to move the ball and we found a way to exploit them at the offensive end, but in the fourth quarter, we got away from it.
That's the type of energy we need. It's good to see guys getting an opportunity.... Last year when I came (to the Warriors via a Feb. 24 trade), our bench was so critical. The energy they brought was fun and exciting. That's what we were missing.
We were not as sharp as we usually are, ... They have very good one-on-one players, and down the stretch we couldn't hit our open 3-point shots.
What I'm trying to do is use my body. That way, as I back him down, I can kick it out to other players.
We didn't really do a good job of shutting down anybody today.
We came out like gangbusters, ... It's going to be exciting. You can see it.
When you're not playing well as a team, you've got to play the players that are giving you the best effort out there on the floor. And no offense -- no knock on anybody because we need everybody on our team -- but Ike has really given us a boost. We'll just see what happens.
We stepped our intensity up, played better defense, applied the pressure,
We're getting there. We're trying to keep ourselves in ballgames. We just got to close it out.
I am the donation to the foundation.
I just stopped liking basketball. And then you dribbling down the court and having the owner like cuss at you and call you an idiot. I didnt even look forward to coming to the games, and if the owner [Donald Sterling] came to the game, I definitely was not gonna have a good game because it was just like, how do you play when the main heckler in the gym is the owner of the team, and hes telling you how much he hates you and calling out your name?