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| profile = anthony_davis | bbr = davisan02 | letter = d }} Anthony Marshon Davis, Jr. (born March 11, 1993) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He plays the power forward and center positions. Davis was selected first overall in the 2012 NBA draft by New Orleans, and is a two-time NBA All-Star. He also earned a gold medal playing with Team USA at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Davis played one season of college basketball at the University of Kentucky, when he was a unanimous 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. Davis led Kentucky to a National Championship and was named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA tournament. He left college for the NBA after one season and was drafted by New Orleans, then known as the New Orleans Hornets, and was selected that summer to play for the Team USA in the 2012 Olympics. After his rookie season, he was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team. The next season, he became an All-Star for the first time and led the NBA in blocked shots per game. ==High school career== Davis is from the South Side of Chicago and played high school basketball for Perspectives Charter School, where he had attended school since sixth grade.〔 The team plays in a division of the Chicago Public High School League, known as the Blue Division, that is ignored by the media because of its lower level of competition.〔〔 Perspectives is a charter school that operates as a math and science academy with high academic pedigree, but minimal athletic success. The school had no gymnasium and Davis' middle school basketball teams practiced at a nearby church.〔 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 .〔 By the beginning of his sophomore year, he had grown another , and he finished the year at .〔〔 As an unheralded guard after his sophomore season, he worked out with his cousins on guard drills that their father (Davis' uncle) had developed. Davis did not play in the spring/summer AAU circuit between 8th grade and his junior year.〔 He began his junior year at a height of and his junior basketball season at ,〔 saying he felt fortunate to have had such a rapid growth spurt without any knee pains. During his junior year, his family considered having him transfer to one of Chicago's basketball powerhouses, but Hyde Park Career Academy head coach Donnie Kirksey, who knew Davis, Sr. well, advised against it saying "If you're good enough, they'll find you wherever you are."〔 Perspectives finished the season 8–15.〔 Although he remained unnoticed nationally and locally after three seasons of Chicago Public League play,〔 he was soon thereafter rated as the #1 player in the class of 2011 by Scout.com and in the ESPNU 100. Rivals.com rated him the #2 player behind Austin Rivers. The attention came when he started playing on Tai Streets' Meanstreets (AAU team) traveling system in the spring of his junior year.〔 As late as Spring 2010 he was still unknown, but began to be noticed in mid April.〔 In late April, Syracuse offered him a scholarship. That spring NBA Top 100 Camp Director Dave Telep, invited him to the camp based on his dominant first half performance of the first game of the Fort Wayne, Indiana Spiece Fieldhouse event. That summer his talent was attention-grabbing.〔 In August 2010, Davis played in the Nike Global Challenge in Hillsboro, Oregon. In the opening game, he had 23 points and 9 rebounds. Davis verbally committed to Kentucky on August 13, 2010, choosing it over his other finalists, which were DePaul, Ohio State, and Syracuse.〔 He had officially visited DePaul and Ohio State. On August 24, 2010, he became the number one rated player in the national class of 2011 at Scout.com. The pay-for-play scandal had played out very publicly in the press. Before Davis committed to Kentucky, the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' reported that his father, Anthony Davis, Sr. asked Kentucky for $200,000 for a commitment from his son. The report was initially released on Wednesday August 4, 2010 by ''Sun-Times'' reporter Michael O'Brien.〔 Citing "a reliable source," he posted the following text "rumors/sources that have Davis choosing Kentucky are also alleging that the commitment cost $200,000." before it was edited to say "rumors that Davis' commitment is for sale have surfaced since he cut his list of schools down about a month ago." and then removed later that day from the ''Sun-Times'' The article was reposted on the ''Sun-Times'' Davis signed his National Letter of Intent on November 10, 2010.〔 He began his senior season on the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' area 2010 Top 50 list. He was a pre-season first team all-state selection by the ''Sun-Times'' along with Ryan Boatright (East Aurora/Connecticut), Wayne Blackshear (Morgan Park/Louisville), Mycheal Henry (Orr/Illinois), and Jabari Parker (Simeon/Duke). By that time, he stood at .〔〔 According to Rodger Bohn of ''SLAM Magazine'' who saw him play more than 10 times, Davis retained his guard instincts after his growth spurt. Despite Davis' individual prowess, Perspectives began the season with a 0–6 record. He sat out one of those games with minor forearm and leg injuries. It took a near quadruple double on December 15, 2010 against Benito Juarez Community Academy, when he posted 32 points, 21 rebounds, 11 assists and 9 blocked shots for the team to earn its first victory in its seventh game.〔 The team's subsequent game against Whitney M. Young Magnet High School played at Chicago State University was nationally televised on ESPNU. Later in the season, he missed some games due to a sprained right thumb. Despite losing approximately three-quarters of its regular season games, Perspective earned a Class 3A regional play-in game victory against Noble Street Charter High School in the Illinois High School Association state playoffs when Davis totaled 33 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists, 5 blocked shots and 4 steals. However, after losing the subsequent regional semifinal game to King College Prep High School the team finished with a 6–19 record. Despite his growth, he continued to perform much of the role of a guard by bringing the ball up the court and shooting outside shots.〔 For the season, he averaged 32 points, 22 rebounds and 7 blocks. In high school, Davis earned numerous honors for his basketball abilities including being named to the 2011 McDonald's All-American Game and the 10th annual Jordan Brand Classic. Although he had not been rated in the Mr. Basketball USA poll to end the 2009–10 season, he began the 2010–11 season ranked fifth, which was the highest of previously unranked players and finished the season fourth behind Rivers, Mike Gilchrist (now known as Michael Kidd-Gilchrist) and Bradley Beal. He joined those three and James Michael McAdoo as first team USA Today All-USA high school basketball team selections. He was a first-team ''Parade'' All-American. He was also a first team All-American selection by ''SLAM Magazine'' (along with Gilchrist, Rivers, Beal, Quincy Miller and Marquis Teague) and ''Dime Magazine'' (along with Gilchrist, Rivers, Beal and Myles Mack). He was a first team selection to the ESPN Rise boys' high school basketball All-American team. However, in the statewide voting for the Illinois Mr. Basketball by coaches and media, he only placed fourth behind co-winners Boatright and Chasson Randle (Rock Island/Stanford) and third-place finisher Blackshear. Those four and Abdel Nader (Niles North/underclassman) formed the ''Chicago Tribune'' All-State first team. The ''Chicago Sun-Times'' selected him as a Class 3A first team All-State selection along with Blackshear. The ''Chicago Sun-Times'' selected him as an all-Public League selection along with Blackshear, Parker, Henry and D. J. Tolliver. The Illinois Basketball Coaches Association included him in the Class 3A/4A boys all-state first team. In the March 30, 2011 McDonald's All-American Game, in front of a hometown crowd at the United Center, he made his first five field goals on his way to a 14-point, 6-rebound, 2-steal and 4-block performance. In the April 9 Nike Hoops Summit, Davis led the USA Basketball team to a 92–80 victory over the world team with a team-high 10 rebounds to go along with 16 points and 2 blocks. He was named co-MVP of the April 16 Jordan Brand Classic game (along with McAdoo) after posting 29 points (on 13-for-15 shooting), 11 rebounds and 4 blocks in a losing effort. Davis' 29 points was the second-highest point total in the first 10 years of the Jordan Brand Classic, following only LeBron James' 34-point performance.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anthony Davis (basketball)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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