In discussing the origin story of how he became a professional musician with multiple platinum singles/albums, Adam Levine relayed a (likely) devastating story from his adolescence about how Baron Davis embarrassed him for 60 points when they were both "13 or 14." As the judge from The Voice remembers it:
As if getting 60 dropped on you isn't bad enough, Davis upped the humiliation by giving his ill-fated defender advanced knowledge of his attacks:
In fairness Davis likely did this to other, non-famous, people. But that particular spanking would go on to have a butterfly effect, and end up altering the course of music history:
So, from the sound of it anyway, Baron Davis is partially responsible for the creation of Maroon 5.
How you feel about that is up to you.
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[via Callaway Live, For the Win]


