Walt Davis
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| Born | January 5, 1931 Beaumont, Texas |
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| Nationality | American | |||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) | |||||||||
| Listed weight | 205 lb (93 kg) | |||||||||
| Career information | ||||||||||
| High school | Nederland (Nederland, Texas) | |||||||||
| College | Texas A&M (1949–1952) | |||||||||
| NBA draft | 1952 / Round: 2 / Pick: 13th overall | |||||||||
| Selected by the Philadelphia Warriors | ||||||||||
| Playing career | 1953–1958 | |||||||||
| Position | Forward / Center | |||||||||
| Number | 12 | |||||||||
| Career history | ||||||||||
| 1953–1958 | Philadelphia Warriors | |||||||||
| 1958 | St. Louis Hawks | |||||||||
| Career highlights and awards | ||||||||||
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| Career statistics | ||||||||||
| Points | 1,558 (4.8 ppg) | |||||||||
| Rebounds | 1,397 (4.3 rpg) | |||||||||
| Assists | 231 (0.7 apg) | |||||||||
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | ||||||||||
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Walter Francis "Walt" Davis (born January 5, 1931) is an Olympic gold medalist in the high jump, and later basketball player, from the United States. He was born in Beaumont, Texas.
Despite contracting polio at age nine and being unable to walk for three years, Davis had a standout athletic career at Texas A&M University and later won Olympic gold in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, with a leap of Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value)..
The Philadelphia Warriors selected the 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) Davis in the second round of the 1952 NBA Draft. He spent five seasons with the Warriors and St. Louis Hawks, averaging 4.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game.
External links
- sports-reference.com
- Buddy Davis Bio from the Texas Sports Hall of Fame
- Pro basketball statistics
- Buddy Davis Bio from the Museum of the Gulf Coast
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- 1931 births
- Living people
- American high jumpers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players from Texas
- Former world record holders in athletics (track and field)
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in track and field
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Olympic track and field athletes of the United States
- Sportspeople from Beaumont, Texas
- Philadelphia Warriors draft picks
- Philadelphia Warriors players
- St. Louis Hawks players
- Texas A&M Aggies men's basketball players
- Texas A&M Aggies track and field athletes
- American track and field athletics Olympic medalist stubs
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