Sports Taboo!

Oh, dat crazy hyphy movement still lives within Baron Davis.

The guy who would’ve been an ideal combination with Monta Ellis (pre-scooter accident) and Stephen Jackson is now thinking second thoughts about his sudden departure from da Bay Area this summer.

Instead of playing his fifth year with the Warriors, the L.A. native opted out of his contract’s final year and landed a homecoming to the . . . Clippers to begin the 2008-09 season. Some people thought stealing Marcus Camby would suddenly resurrect the franchise, â la Kevin Garnett/Ray Allen did to the bottom-feeding Celtics in 2008. Clearly, those “some people” were fucking retarded.

Anyways, fast forward to yesterday. Davis told the San Jose Mercury News that he wouldn’t mind reuniting with his boy Jackson back at Golden State.

“That’s all we talked about,” Jackson said, according to the newspaper. “I went to his house, spent some time with his mom and his grandmother. He wants to come back. And if he wants to come back, I want him back.”

Could there be a worse thing to say in professional sports?

Remember when Manny Ramirez said he wouldn’t mind playing for the Yankees? Believe it or not, that was one point in Ramirez’s career that the slugger (seemingly) enjoyed playing for the Sox. Oh, how quickly the perception changed of Ramirez — for the good. If the media could kill, Ramirez would be frozen next to Ted Williams in Scottsdale right now.

So we ask: Is Baron Davis losing his fucking mind? Here are the cardinal sins of things to say as a professional athlete:

1. I would love to play for the (team-other-than-your-own)s.
2. I guarantee we win tomorrow night
3. Sloppy seconds*

* = NHL

Not since Antoine Walker’s reappearance in Boston (he was traded, then traded back, proving that the Celtics front office clearly had no clue what was going on pre-2008) has something of that odd magnitude occured in the NBA.

Not that Golden State has a clue what they’re doing, anyways. Or how fast their players are riding European-esque moped scooters.