Anthony Davis was constructing one thing else fully whereas he was additionally constructing his wealth.
The Washington Wizards star energy ahead revealed to TODAY’s Craig Melvin that he initially missed his agent’s calls when he obtained his final two contract extensions, in addition to the shocking cause why.
“What’s one hobby that you have that would surprise most people?” Melvin requested Davis on the April 28 episode of “Glass Half Full.”
“I love to build Legos,” the basketball star mentioned.
“You’re just layered,” Craig replied.
“It’s funny because my agent called me my last two extensions, and I wasn’t answering the phone,” Davis recalled. “He was like, ‘Man, you just got paid the highest extension in NBA history, and I can’t get ahold of you.’ ‘I’m sorry, I was building Legos. I apologize.’”
Davis, who was the No. 1 total choose within the 2012 NBA draft by the-then New Orleans Hornets after he led the University of Kentucky to the nationwide championship in his lone season there, mentioned Legos are a critical matter to him,
“I build Legos. I have an entire collection of Legos. I love to build Legos,” he mentioned.
The 14-year NBA veteran has not precisely stored his adoration for Legos a secret, both.
“My peace … where it’s just like I would listen to music and just be drifted off, it’s doing Legos,” he mentioned on “The Backyard Podcast” in 2024.
In 2023, Davis, then with the Los Angeles Lakers, signed a three-year, $186 million most contract extension, the richest annual extension in NBA historical past, ESPN reported on the time.
Prior to that, in 2020, he re-signed with the Lakers on a five-year, $190 million contract. In 2015, Davis signed a five-year, $145 million contract extension with the Pelicans.
After starting his profession with the Hornets (who modified their identify to the Pelicans earlier than the 2014-2015 NBA season), Davis was traded to the Lakers in 2019 and helped make them the NBA title the following season.
He battled accidents the following few seasons earlier than he was traded to the Dallas Mavericks in 2025, in a single of the league’s most blockbuster deals that despatched Luka Dončić to the Lakers. This previous February, Davis was traded once more, to the Wizards.
