Anthony Marshon Davis Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. Davis played one season of college basketball for the University of Kentucky, when he was first team All-American and the Consensus National Player of the Year. Davis left college for the NBA after one season and was drafted as the first overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft by the New Orleans Pelicans. He has won gold medals with the United States national team on their 2012 Olympic team and 2014 World Cup team. Davis is a seven-time NBA All-Star and has been named to four All-NBA First Teams and four NBA All -Defensive Teams. In his first season with the Lakers, he won an NBA championship in 2020
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Anthony Marshon Davis Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. Davis played one season of college basketball for the University of Kentucky, when he was first team All-American and the Consensus National Player of the Year. Davis left college for the NBA after one season and was drafted as the first overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft by the New Orleans Pelicans. He has won gold medals with the United States national team on their 2012 Olympic team and 2014 World Cup team. Davis is a seven-time NBA All-Star and has been named to four All-NBA First Teams and four NBA All -Defensive Teams. In his first season with the Lakers, he won an NBA championship in 2020. Davis began his junior basketball season at 6 feet 8 inches, saying he felt fortunate to have had such a rapid growth spurt without any knee pains. In junior high school, he was known as \”the little guy who would shoot threes from the corner\”. He ended his freshman year at a height of 6-feet 0 inches. By the beginning of his sophomore year, he had grown another 1 inch, and he finished the year at 6 feet 4 inches. Davis verbally committed to Kentucky on August 13, 2010, choosing it over DePaul, Ohio State, and Syracuse. His family considered having him transfer to one of Chicago’s basketball powerhouses, but Hyde Park Career Academy head coach Donnie Kirksey advised against it, saying \”If you’re good enough, they’ll find you wherever you are\”.
In August 2010, Davis played in the Nike Global Challenge in Hillsboro, Oregon. In the opening game, Davis had 23 points and 9 rebounds. He was soon thereafter rated as the number one player in the class of 2011 by Scout. com and was listed in the ESPNU 100. He has since become the youngest player to score at least 59 points in an NBA game. In 2017, Davis was named the recipient of the NBA All star Game MVP Award after setting an All-star Game scoring record of 52 points. Davis was traded to the Lakers in 2019. He is a member of the U.S. Basketball Hall of Fame and the NBA Hall of Famer. His father, Anthony Davis Sr, is a former NBA player and coach. Davis has been involved in a number of high-profile incidents, including the death of former NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf in 2010. He was also involved in the shooting death of Michael Jordan in 2011. Davis was selected that summer to play for the 2012 Olympics and was selected to play in the World Cup in 2014. He played for the Chicago Bulls in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015, and the 2015 NBA All Star Game in 2016 and 2016, and was named to the NBA’s All-Rookie First Team and All-Defensive Team in 2014 and 2015. He also won the NCAA Division I freshman single-season blocked shots records. Davis led the NCAA in blocks and set Southeastern Conference and NCAA Division One freshmanSingle-season blocks records.
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