On Saturday, Baltimore television station WMAR reported that former NBA forward Glen “Big Baby” Davis had been arrested last month after police found 126 grams of marijuana and $92,164 inside his hotel room. Davis was then reportedly charged with seven counts of drug possession and distribution.
As that news spread across the internet, Davis took to Instagram to share his side of the story. In a video that seems to have been recorded from an airplane, Davis sits next to a briefcase of cash, shows off his 2008 NBA championship ring, eats Popeye’s and confidently proclaims, “I will have my day in court.”
“Don’t believe all that shit on the internet,” he says in the video. “They just mad because a black man got money, man. Just trying to keep a black man down, man. … My shit legal, man. A lot of jump shots. A whole lot of jump shots.”
Davis, for what it’s worth, made $32,175,991 in salary during his eight-year NBA career. And though it’s tough to imagine how he could have ended up in a room with 126 grams of weed and $90,000 without committing a couple crimes, you never know.
