ESPN.com writer Eamonn Brennan noted in 2014,[4] ESPN's RecruitingNation maintains detailed scouting reports on hundreds of the best high school basketball players in the country.

Baker — who requested a redshirt year when he committed, as a walk-on, to Wichita State in April 2011 — couldn't have been more off the recruiting radar.After his senior season, Kansas invited him to visit the campus.

Baker's father recalled that Ron felt that his basketball game was rusty, and that "he didn't want to embarrass himself" in a potential scrimmage.

Baker did not prove himself to be an efficient scorer and played just eighteen games in the entire season due to a stress fracture in his left foot.

[6] He eventually played a major role when the Shockers made an unanticipated run into the semifinals of the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.

Baker was named to the 2014 MVC All-Conference First Team and the CBE Hall of Fame Classic's Most Valuable Player after finishing his first season with a double-digit scoring average.

[9] He made his debut for the Knicks in their season opener on October 25, 2016, recording five points and one rebound in seven minutes off the bench in a 117–88 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

[12] During his rookie and sophomore seasons, in which he became a fan favorite, he was assigned multiple times to New York's D-League/G League affiliate, the Westchester Knicks.

[15] Baker missed the Knicks' game on January 2, 2018, against the San Antonio Spurs because of a broken left orbital bone sustained when he was hit in the face trying to stop Anthony Davis' drive to the basket in New York's victory against the New Orleans Pelicans on December 30.

He told the hosts that he had undergone hip surgery while overseas, and wanted to move on with his life, with hopes of entering the business world.

[22] In August 2021, Baker was named project manager in the strategy and business development department at a medical center, Ascension Via Christi, in Wichita, Kansas.

[24] Following the 2015–16 season, Baker was contacted by the owner of a small publishing house in El Dorado, Kansas, who wanted him to write a children's book.

The final product, You're Too Big to Dream Small, is an illustrated book with rhyming text written primarily by Baker himself and based closely on his life.