Dear Glen Davis
No new nickname can fix a pose like that...
via ESPN:
Declaring himself fit for a change, Glen Davis said before Monday's Boston Celtics game that he's dropping the "Big Baby" moniker and is searching for a new nickname. When a reporter suggested the Chad Ochocinco-like "Uno Uno" to match Davis' No. 11 jersey, he instantly fell in love with it.
"'Uno Uno,'" Davis erupted in delight. "I like that, I like that. I'll be 'Uno Uno,' that's my new name." Davis, who has had his maturity questioned through a series of events over the past year-plus, including an off-court fight that forced him to miss the first 27 games of the 2009-10 season, and last week's run-in with a fan where he was fined $25,000 for shouting an obscene phrase, is trying to distance himself from all that as he takes the next step in his maturation.
"I've been called 'Big Baby' all through my life," said Davis. "But I'm going through changes. I'm in a cocoon and I'm coming out a different player, a different person. Basically, the new person is growth. I'm shedding that 'Big Baby' and you can see something else, not the past."
Glen, Glen, Glen. It's been a while since you've been relevant on the Celtics. Rajon Rondo's developed into an All-Star, KG and Paul are doing their thing (kinda) and Rasheed Wallace, Brian Scalibrine and Shelden Williams have taken any PT you would have seen away. Now, after getting fined $25,000 (that DEFINITELY hurts your pockets), you decided it was time for a change, a new moniker. You're tired of being called 'Big Baby' and want to sit at the big boys' table at Thanksgiving and want your own room on road trips. Well, Glen, as most big boys know, you can't have everything you want, especially when what you don't want was given to you. Big boys don't cry, but big babies do. Your nickname 'Big Baby' is going to be your nickname until you retire or get waived. Yes, you can demand that you be called 'Uno-Uno' (that nickname sucks by the way), but who's really going to take you seriously at this point? That's like having a tall, bald-headed muscle-bound friend with a cock-eye and NOT calling him Debo. Then again, I suppose it's not serious. You can call yourself whatever you want. Just know that most people are going to be basing their opinions of you off moments like this: