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NBA Rookie Closes Inner Circle After Deadly Shot Is Fired

16.01.10

“They don’t allow many people to get very close,” Davis said of the Evanses.

Few N.B.A. stars have a tighter inner circle than Evans, who is averaging 20.6 points and 5.1 rebounds a game and is a leading contender for rookie of the year. He has four older brothers who are active in his life. And 13 years later, he and Davis remain inseparable.

At the American Christian School in Aston, Pa., where Evans starred, Davis was a team manager. Davis followed Evans to Memphis in 2008 and played a similar role: answering phone calls and rebounding shots for his friend at 1 a.m. When Sacramento drafted Evans with the fourth pick of the N.B.A. draft in June, Davis too moved west.

“I’m a second pair of eyes,” said Davis, who lives in a three-bedroom condominium with Evans and his trainer, Lamont Peterson, near Arco Arena.

Davis, who goes by the name Gym Rat, was also in the backseat of Evans’s gold Ford Expedition when gunshots rang out in front of Evans’s aunt’s house in Toby Farms, a rough section of Chester, Pa., around 6 p.m. on a Sunday in November 2007. According to a police report, Evans, who was driving, saw his cousin Jamar Evans put a silver handgun in his hooded sweatshirt. Davis, in his statement, concurred. Neither said he saw Jamar Evans pull the trigger for the shot to the chest that killed the 19-year-old Marcus Reason. Tyreke Evans maintains that Reason charged them first.

Source: New York Times