Baron Davis was once a point guard in the NBA. He led the league in steals twice. He was an All-Star twice. Those days are behind him, though. Davis will turn 37 years old next month, and hasn’t played for an NBA team since the 2011-12 season, when he played 29 games for the New York Knicks.
Davis is attempting an NBA comeback, though, and is currently playing for the Philadelphia 76ers’ D-League affiliate team, the Delaware 87ers. In 3 games with the 87ers, Davis has averaged 14.3 points, 2.3 assists, 2 rebounds, and 1.3 steals per game.
Davis is eager to join an NBA team, and while he would be willing to play for any team, his number 1 choice is the Golden State Warriors.
From Jay Mariotti of the San Francisco Examiner:
Baron Davis, a month shy of his 37th birthday, wants to play again in the NBA.
Preferably, he’d do so with the Warriors.
“I would love to. It would be a dream come true. Be a dream come true, man,” says Davis, his grin as big as it ever was, nine years after leading the “We Believe” Warriors to pro basketball’s biggest-ever postseason upset. “Who wouldn’t want to play on a team that plays basketball the way it should be played? I’ve always dreamed about playing for a team that’s unselfish.
“I love ’em. Everyone bought into the system. Most importantly, they bought into each other. It’s just the beauty of watching them. I never miss a game. They are my favorite team.”
And his favorite front office, hint hint, after having to play years ago in the abysmal Chris Cohan era. “It will always be home and always be a special connection,” Davis says of the Bay Area. “I wish we had this ownership [Joe Lacob and Peter Guber] and organizational sphere when I played. It’s unfortunate that we didn’t; there were a lot of shenanigans, just a lot of stuff that should have happened that didn’t. Bad leadership, I would say. They figured it out with this ownership group and management. It shows, top to bottom, how serious they are about winning. Those fans deserve it. You can see why they’re undefeated at Oracle.”
Davis has played for the Warriors before — from 2004 to 2008. He would be ecstatic to be able to come back to Golden State and try to win a championship — something he has never been able to accomplish.
