NBA’s got a new Big Baby
It looks like Glen “Big Baby” Davis is going to declare for the upcoming NBA Draft. Well, I cannot wait for this to unfold over the next 3-5 years. Here’s the scenario of how I see the career going down:
Our story starts with Glen getting drafted by a struggling team early in the second round. Of course, this struggling team will seek some immediate results from Big Baby, and he’ll probably provide some solid minutes as a rookie after he figures the game out, sort of like a Mark Jackson (the power forward, not point guard) level rookie/sophmore performance. Of course, he’ll start to relax a little bit, gain a little bit of weight back, which will cause him to lose favor with the current team’s coaching staff. This may or may not result in a trade to a new team, but it will result in an incredible change in Glen’s attitude coming into a season in which he will be available to seek a long-term deal. Once again, this is a 3-5 year story, keep that in mind. Big Baby will show up in the best shape of his life, resulting in a career-year, sort of like when Reggie Evans was able to earn the starting power forward spot for the Seattle Sonics in the year when the Sonics shot to the top of the Pacific Division in the Western Conference. If Davis can help spur on such a solid season for his team, all the better. Of course, this will result in some general manager with way too much free money to spend, because of an ever-increasing salary cap due to the all-time-high NBA revenues from the young stars of Durant, Oden and Foye and the in-their-primes stardom of Paul, Bosh, Anthony, James, and Wade, signing Davis to some mega-millions, long-term deal. With this newfound fame and money, Big Baby will return the favor by blowing up like White Goodman at the end of “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.” Well, maybe not that big, but he’ll compete with his former alumnus, Oliver Miller.
I’ve now put my crystal ball away for the day, but I will be back with it tomorrow with some March Madness predictions. It also appears that I will be in Lexington, Kentucky, on Thursday to enjoy the games, so I will have plenty to report on Sunday after watching Oden, OSU, TAMU, and Louisville play some ball (and probably shoot a combined 27% from the three-point line). NCAA hoops; it’s fantastic.
