Nearly 17 years ago, Baron Davis delivered the play that defined the “We Believe” era of the Golden State Warriors . With less than 3 minutes remaining in the Warriors’ wire-to-wire Game 3 West Semis demolition against the Utah Jazz, B-Diddy bullishly attacked his left, flushed a brutal one-handed hammer over Andrei Kirilenko , and the rest was just history.
The move he dropped right on AK-47’s face was so nasty that it made Baron wonder what unfolded at that moment, as the entire “Roaracle” Arena exploded upon witnessing his exclamation dunk.
“When I dunked, I just pulled [my jersey]; I didn’t know what the fu** to do,” Davis recalled in his appearance on the Club 520 Podcast. “ I didn’t even know I made it, you know? Until I looked over on the side, and dudes was like, ‘That sh** was crazy.’ You couldn’t hear nothing, I couldn’t hear nothing. All I could see was people just stunned.
“It was epic. It wasn’t like none of that sh** was playing. I just pulled my shirt up, like to get in my belly, because I used to be like a fat bastard.”