Glen comes into second NBA season armed with a new mid-range jumper (albeit still a work in progress) and earns even more playing time, while also earning some national notoriety for crying on the bench after getting yelled at by spiritual leader of the team and then later on for hitting a game-winning shot with one of those aforementioned jumpers in the playoffs against the Orlando Magic.

Glen heads into offseason seeking a nice payday after submitting elevated play but when his team leaves him to field hefty contract offers from other NBA teams and no offers come in, Glen’s Twitter pages suddenly comes to life with the following string of tweets:

“Why is this (bad word deleted) taking so long!!! I really don’t understand!!!!”

“Anybody knows what’s going on with the Celtics? Cause I don’t!!!!!”

“Well I’m not worried about Sheldon!!! Great. Guy and great player!!! But we are different players you know!!!!!”

“I wonder how the weather (is in) Boston cause I haven’t been there in so long!!!!”

“I like some of you guys ideas!!!! I going to tell danny (ainge) about some of you guys ideas!!!! I don’t know why then they sign (Williams) before me!!”

“Well I don’t know where I’m going to be!!! Where guys think I’m going to be!!! Who needs a pf?”

After the tweets become big news and cause a negative blowback, tweets from Glen’s same Twitter account reveal a sudden about-face:

“Don’t be mad at Bigbaby!!!”

“Sorry guys !!!! This is not Bigbaby ..”

“You really think this the real Bigbaby!!!! If you think so !!!your wrong…”

Glen follows with strong denials of authoring any of such tweets but does not mention poor spelling, capitalization or grammar. Glen’s denials are met with some skepticism.

Glen comes into training camp noticeably slimmer and in the best shape of his career with a shiny new two-year $6.3 million contract (with a weight clause) in hand but then Glen uses same hand to punch a childhood friend in the face repeatedly during a late-night altercation.

Glen’s right thumb is placed in a cast, causing Glen to miss the first 27 games of the season. While sitting out games, Glen gains back some of the lost weight and loses his outside shooting touch.

In his 12th game back from his thumb injury, Glen shouts an obscene sexual reference at a Detroit Pistons fan, which earns Glen a $25,000 fine from the league for “directing inappropriate language” toward a fan. Glen expresses regret for losing $25,000.

Glen boldly announces in front of hoard of reporters desperate for a story in the middle of the season that he no longer wants to be called “Big Baby” and is seeking new nickname. Glen immediately takes to reporter suggestion of “Uno Uno” in the spirit of NFL player Chad (formerly Johnson) Ochocinco. Said reporter fails to follow up with observation that Ochocinco is actually one of the best players at his position in his league whereas Davis is a back up big who averages under 6 points and 4 rebounds per game in his three year career.

And that brings us to the present. Honestly? The fact that so many people considered Glen Davis’s demand for a new nickname to be newsworthy is just too confounding for words. For the record, I actually like what Davis bring to this team as the second big off the bench and was definitely in favor of bringing him back at a reasonable cost. That said, like most Celtics fans, at this point I'd just like to see his game continue to progress without these continued setbacks and distractions. As such, I don’t have any nickname ideas for Davis, mostly because I think “Big Baby” is both fitting and deeply established and that he shouldn’t try to get rid of it now just because it’s become negatively ironic due to his own prolonged string of immature behavior.

I do, however, have a proposal for Davis in terms of action over words: Shut up and play, and thus earn your way out of your established nickname. Or, in the words of your own coach in his reaction to this Uno Uno nonsense: “Actions change your image most of the time, but we'll see.” More specifically, do something very well on a sustained basis that inspires others to call you something that reflects earned respect.

Think of Paul Pierce as an example of this. Recall that Paul Pierce was simply Paul Pierce until one night in March of 2001 when he went off against the Los Angeles Lakers for 42 points on 13-19 shooting and Shaquille O’Neal marveled after the game:

“Paul Pierce is the mother[expletive]ing truth. Quote me on that and don't take nothing out. I knew he could play, but I didn't know he could play like this. Paul Pierce is the truth.”

And since then, Paul Pierce has become known as The Truth, universally so, because he was bestowed the nickname as an honor directly from a lock future Hall of Fame player. That’s how it works. Demanding a more favorable – or at least a more innocuous – nickname through the press is definitely NOT how it works. Actions, not words, drive the image. And that, my friends, the mother****ing truth.