Kenneth Davis (basketball)
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Born | September 12, 1948 (age 75) Slat, Kentucky |
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Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
Listed height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||||||
Listed weight | 181 lb (82 kg) | ||||||||||||
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High school | Wayne County (Monticello, Kentucky) | ||||||||||||
College | Georgetown (Kentucky) (1967–1971) | ||||||||||||
NBA draft | 1971 / Round: 11 / Pick: 181st overall | ||||||||||||
Selected by the New York Knicks | |||||||||||||
Position | Guard | ||||||||||||
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Kenneth Bryan "Kenny" Davis (born September 12, 1948)[1] is an American former basketball player.
Davis was born in Slat, Kentucky.[1] After his collegiate career as a small college All-American at Georgetown College, where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order, and a short stint with the Marathon Oil AAU team, Davis was named Captain of the U.S. national team in the 1972 Olympics. In the aftermath of the controversial finish to the Gold Medal game, Davis famously led the United States team in a refusal to accept the Silver Medal and has a provision in his will that neither his wife nor children may accept the medal after his death. After his basketball career ended, Davis became and still is a sales representative for Converse (39 years) and also is a noted motivational speaker residing in Garrard County, Kentucky.[2]
Davis was drafted by the New York Knicks in the eleventh round of the 1971 NBA draft. He never played professionally, however.
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- 1948 births
- Living people
- Basketball players from Kentucky
- Basketball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players at the 1971 Pan American Games
- Georgetown Tigers men's basketball players
- New York Knicks draft picks
- Olympic basketball players of the United States
- Olympic medalists in basketball
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States
- People from Wayne County, Kentucky
- People from Garrard County, Kentucky
- American basketball biography, 1940s birth stubs