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Baron Davis folds his arms, lowers his chin and leans his shoulder against a wall outside New Orleans Arena. He locks his gaze on the concrete, as if he had X-ray vision and the answers to all his questions were on the other side. His brow furrows, and a look of confusion blankets his face.

"What? Won't that affect the back end?" he asks. "Are you sure?"

He stands straight up and puts his hands on his hips, nodding slightly. "Who do you think is right for the part?" A pause. "I could see that."

He's not CRAZY. Davis lifts up his shirt to reveal the celly clipped to his waistband, flipping it shut to end the call. When he's not running the break or launching rainbow threes for the Hornets, this is what he does.

"Just closed a two-picture agreement," Davis says with a grin. As the CEO of Too Easy Entertainment, a film production company he formed in 2002, he's bringing the glitz to the Crescent City. "There's definitely an art to the deal," he says. "I'm learning."

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