If you watched the first two episodes of ESPN's "The Last Dance" documentary chronicling the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls, you likely witnessed a particularly awkward exchange in which Michael Jordan declined to give an autograph to an audio technician wiring him up for sound.
Several years later, former Warriors guard Baron Davis would attempt a similar endeavor in a much more appropriate environment and got a funny story to show for it.
Davis' first All-Star Game appearance came in 2001-02 in his third NBA season with the Charlotte Hornets, which also happened to coincide with Jordan's penultimate All-Star appearance. Twenty-two years old at the time, Davis was determined what the audio technician could not and had a plan to make it happen.
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"I knew Michael Jordan didn't sign stuff," Davis explained Monday on KNBR's "Murph & Mac Show," "so I was like, alright, I'm gonna get Michael Jordan to sign some shoes. So, I'm like, 'Yo, man, why don't you sign some shoes?' And he was like, 'Man, get out of here.'
"So after we went to warm-ups, I was like, yo bro, I'm in the All-Star Game. ... You warm up, you come back, you warm up again, because everybody is trying to get loose. So I ran back into the locker room, just to take a moment, and I was like, 'Hold on, dude. I'm never gonna probably ever get a chance to play with Michael Jordan ever again -- Dude, I'm about to sit in this locker and meditate!'
"And lo and behold, man, he comes rearin' to slap me, 'Man get your a-- out my locker!' And so I just kept bothering him the whole time."
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Davis was unclear if he was successful in getting his shoes signed, but went on to explain that wasn't even his main goal.
"I wasn't even trippin' on the autograph," he added, "it was more so I just needed to work my way in and try to be friends with him. I just needed some attention -- I needed some recognition from Michael Jordan."