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Baron Davis is turning to one of his former NBA teammates to help him win a Mirrorball Trophy this year -- telling TMZ Sports he's getting dancing advice from none other than Iman Shumpert! Just hours after it was revealed the former Golden State Warriors point guard would be on the newest season of "Dancing With The Stars" ... he told us he's already picking Shumpert's brain on how to two-step through the competition.
Former NBA star Baron Davis, a longtime Raiders fan, is set to host Raiders: Talk of the Nation. Davis forged his allegiance to the Silver and Black while growing up in Los Angeles, where he followed the Raiders as the 1983 team gave the city its first World Championship of Professional Football with a win in Super Bowl XVIII.
ClutchPoints: "LaMelo [Ball] needs to have a goal going into the season ... 'I'ma be the top point guard, I'ma play 82 games & get my team to the playoffs.'" Baron Davis gives his viewpoint on LaMelo Ball heading into the new season 🗣️ (via @PodcaPShow)
Baron Davis: Ring culture is like a disease — it allows certain people to use their accolades as leverage, to push narratives that aren't fair. I’m not saying they’re not experts, but some folks out here are pushing stories that don’t reflect the full picture.
How much did you feel that people they felt counted you and your teammates out during the 2006-07 “We Believe” Golden State Warriors team run in the NBA Playoffs against the Dallas Mavericks? Jason Richardson: Aw man! We felt EVERY bit of that! Every bit of that, man! We had an UNBELIEVABLE fan base out there in Oakland. They were tired of losing; it was 13, 14 years without them going to the playoffs and they just had this energy about us that just… almost propelled us going into the playoffs, you know — making the playoffs first of all. And so, we understood that people counted us out. Everybody had something against them, you know? They were saying that Baron [Davis] was “injury prone”; Stack Jack (aka Stephen Jackson) was coming off the situation in Detroit with the ‘Malice in the Palace’; they had me as a good player that’s getting numbers on a bad team… There were just so many things that we had that we wanted to prove people wrong and I think we put all of that aside and we played for each other and the only thing that we wanted to do was like, Hey we gonna let you know that one: We’re a good team and we’re good players…
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The Draymond Green Show with Baron Davis: "Basketball used to be a poor man's game… now it's a rich kid game... There's no imagination. Everybody's doing the same thing. And I think a lot of that is due sometimes to having trainers." @Money23Green reflects on what LeBron said about youth trainers vs. real hoopers — and how the game’s roots are fading.
"Basketball used to be a poor man's game… now it's a rich kid game... There's no imagination. Everybody's doing the same thing. And I think a lot of that is due sometimes to having trainers."@Money23Green reflects on what LeBron said about youth trainers vs. real hoopers — and… pic.twitter.com/juVD2mVma6
— The Draymond Green Show with Baron Davis (@DraymondShow) June 10, 2025
Baron Davis feels the key to the Golden State Warriors unlocking their potential is by adding an “athletic big.” The Warriors turned their season around following the Jimmy Butler trade, with the six-time All-Star helping revive Golden State’s season. The team was 25-26 at the time of the Butler acquisition and then went 23-8 in the ensuing 31 games. Butler’s arrival paved the way for the Warriors to win their first round series and advance to the second round. If not for a Stephen Curry injury that sidelined him for the last four games of the season, the Warriors’ playoff series against the Minnesota Timberwolves may have looked a lot different, says Davis. “They’re solid contenders now,” the former Warriors star told Basketball Insiders in an exclusive interview. “Steph getting hurt in that series kind of really derailed them and their momentum. But having Jimmy now playing that Robin character to Steph, it just gives you a different flow. Defenses are geared towards Steph, and now having Jimmy — who knows how to get a bucket, how to get to the free throw line — the Warriors can play (many different styles).”
Golden State’s biggest weakness is their lack of elite play at the big man positions. The Warriors were starting the 6-foot-6 Draymond Green and Trayce Jackson-Davis — a second-round pick who averaged 6.6 points last season — towards the end of the playoffs. “Their ceiling is really kind of the move that they make in the offseason to upgrade themselves athletically right in the front court,” says Davis. “I personally think they need some front-court athleticism to compete in the West with Nikola Jokic, Naz Reid and people like that.”
Golden State ranked 18th in rebounds and 24th in blocks last season. “They needed some help, I would definitely say, rebounding,” says Davis. “Steve Kerr said it himself. Draymond Green at the five the majority of the season kind of wore him out. I saw similar things. If they can get some support, that would really help.”
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Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green sent well wishes to New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns after the death of a family friend, but said Thursday he was just relaying what he heard when he said on his podcast that Towns didn't play for the Knicks against Golden State this week because Jimmy Butler was in the building. Towns was listed out for personal reasons when the Warriors beat the Knicks 114-102 on Tuesday. Green, during his podcast with former NBA player Baron Davis, said that "some would say he didn't play because Jimmy was in the building."
Green said on the podcast that he talked to Towns' father when he saw him at the game. "His pops is an incredible man, but they say KAT didn't play because Jimmy came into town, and you know him and Jimmy had the infamous practice in Minnesota," Green said.
Green was not aware of that until after the Warriors' 121-119 win over Brooklyn on Thursday. "That's unfortunate, I'm sorry to hear that. That sucks," Green said. "But my comments that I made were, you know, 'People, what I heard was this.' That's what I heard. So I do send my well wishes to him and his family. "It's inevitable, we all experience death in one way or another, and we'll all experience it in the same way one day. So it's unfortunate, you never wish that on anybody, but 'The Draymond Green Show with Baron Davis' must go on."
DeMar DeRozan passes Patrick Ewing in scoring
Jorge Sierra: DeMar DeRozan passed Patrick Ewing in scoring last night. He's No. 27 all-time now. Also: Damian Lillard moved ahead of Baron Davis for No. 41 in assists.
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