He set out to become the best basketball player ever to play the game, and his on-court accomplishments at the end of his career will put him in the conversation. Baron Davis, on the other hand, often was admonished as a waste of talent, despite a lengthy, though injury-plagued career as a starting point guard in the NBA. He was criticized for lacking the same single-minded focus as Bryant, and people often wondered “what if…” about his career.