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Anthony Davis
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American basketball player (born 1993)
OverviewAI-generated
Anthony Davis is a United States basketball player who has been active since 2012. He plays the power forward position for the Washington Wizards and wears jersey number 23. Davis stands 211 centimeters tall and weighs 115 kilograms.
The name Anthony Davis is also associated with a United States musician and author. This individual performs in genres including bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, funk, and classical music. He has authored fifty works, including *King of Diamonds*, *Woolf Barnato - Man about Town*, *Justin Bealiba*, *Epic Tale of Rhiannon*, and *Alien Antecede*.
Synthesized by Vinony from 26 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 50
Top works
- King of Diamonds
- Woolf Barnato - Man about Town
- Justin Bealiba
- Epic Tale of Rhiannon
- Alien Antecede
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1926-05-26
- Active to
- 1991-09-28
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4,493
- Total plays
- 35,106
Tags
Please note there are multiple artists with this name; 1.) Anthony Davis, better known as Tony Davis (born February 20, 1951 in Paterson, New Jersey), is an American composer, jazz pianist, and student of gamelan music. Davis composed an opera entitled X (about Malcolm X), taught at Yale University, and has played with Anthony Braxton and Leo Smith. In 1981, he formed an octet called Episteme. He also wrote the incidental music for the Broadway version of Tony Kushner's Angels in America. <a h
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data
· 2014 · cited 61,985x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,115x
- Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology
· 1989 · cited 45,551x
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,714x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,922x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Position
- Center / power forward
- League
- NBA
- Born
- ( 1993-03-11 ) March 11, 1993 (age 33) , Chicago , Illinois, U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
- Listed weight
- 253 lb (115 kg)
- High school
- Perspectives Charter (Chicago, Illinois)
- College
- Kentucky (2011–2012)
- Nba draft
- 2012 : 1st round, 1st overall pick
- Drafted by
- New Orleans Hornets
- Playing career
- 2012–present
- 2012 2019
- New Orleans Hornets / Pelicans
- 2019 2025
- Los Angeles Lakers
- 2025 2026
- Dallas Mavericks
- 2026 present
- Washington Wizards
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Team
- Washington Wizards
- Position
- Power Forward
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
~40 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Anthony Marshon Davis Jr. (born March 11, 1993), nicknamed "AD" and "the Brow", is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Davis, a power forward and center, is a ten-time NBA All-Star and has been named to five All-NBA Teams (including four first-team selections) and five NBA All-Defensive Teams (including three first-team selections). In 2021, he was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. Davis is widely regarded as one of the greatest power forwards of all time.
Davis played one season of college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats, when he was first team All-American and the Consensus National Player of the Year. He also won the USBWA National Freshman of the Year, NABC Defensive Player of the Year and the Pete Newell Big Man Award. Davis led the NCAA in blocks and set Southeastern Conference and NCAA Division I freshman single-season blocked shots records. He led Kentucky to a national championship and was named the most outstanding player of the 2012 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anthony Davis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.