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Few players keep as busy as Warriors guard Baron Davis, and yesterday he went over his summer activities with the San Francisco Chronicle, including his strenuous workouts, extensive family time, his Los Angeles area basketball camps, various film production interests, as well as his thick beard.

The boy who never troubled his grandmother is in a state of rebellion. She has pleaded with him, chastised him, told him how ridiculous he looks with that awful beard.

It’s overgrown. It covers half his face. It makes him seem so menacing, she says. But Baron Davis isn’t budging. He refuses to get rid of his “grind,” no matter how much the most important woman in his life tells him to.

“She don’t understand — I’m in grind mode,” Davis says. “It’s what I do in the summer. I grind. I hustle. I don’t have time to get no haircut.”

That’s what we in the biz (the people biz) call great insight into beard-growing, and we want more of it. There are plenty of sites about NBA tattoos, but none about NBA beards. We want to know the hows and whys of everyone’s grinds, and we want it now!