Lucius Cecil Davis
(born July 20, 1970) is an American former professional basketball player who played the forward position.
He played for the
Isuzu GigaCats in Japan, and for
Maccabi Rishon LeZion in the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
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. He was the
top scorer in the 2004 Israel Basketball Premier League.
Personal life
Davis is a
San Jose, California
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, native.
During his basketball playing career, he was listed at a height of tall, and a weight .
Basketball career
College career
Davis attended and played basketball for
Piedmont Hills High School. He was named the 1988 ''
Mercury News
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'' All-County and Player of the Year.
After high school, Davis attended the
University of California, Santa Barbara
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, where he played
college basketball
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for the
Gauchos.
In 1988–89, Davis came off the bench as a freshman.
As a sophomore, he was the
Big West Conference
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's Sixth Man of the Year.
In 1990–91, he was the team's leading scorer at 16.0 points per game, and was All-Big West.
In his senior year, 1991–92, he led the Big West with 22.2 points per game, the second-highest total in school history, led the conference with 644 points, led the Big West with 225 field goals, and his 194 free throws which led the conference were at the time the third-most made in a season by a player in the Big West.
He was
Big West Player of the Year, First Team All-Big West, All-District, All-Region, and Honorable Mention All-American.
Professional career
The ''
Los Angeles Times
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'' reported Davis to be one of the possible second-round picks of the
1992 NBA draft
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, but he ultimately was not selected by any
NBA
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team in the draft. He was selected in the 3rd round (39th overall) of the
Continental Basketball Association
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(CBA) draft by the
Omaha Racers
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. In late 1992, he played for
Apollon Patras
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in
Greece
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's top-tier level
Basket League. In 1993, he joined
Deportivo Roca of the
Liga Nacional de Básquet
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of
Argentina
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. In his first season with the club, he averaged 27.3 points per game. He also stayed with the club for a second season; he scored a total of 2,608 points, in 97 appearances, in the
Liga Nacional de Básquet
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, for an average of 26.9 points per game. He then played with the Greek club
Papagou
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, and with them he averaged 25.4 points per game in the 1995–96 season.
In 1996, Davis was noticed by Italian basketball agent and sports writer
Federico Buffa, and he was then signed by the Italian
Lega Basket Serie A
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club
Mens Sana Siena. He played in 28 games with the team, averaging 22.1 points, 4.2 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 2.5 steals per game.
From 1997
to 2002, he played for the
Isuzu GigaCats in Japan; in 1998, he ranked third in scoring in the Japanese league, at 21.3 points per game, and he went on to lead the 2000–01
JBL Super League season in scoring, at 25.1 points per game.
Davis played at the
small forward
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position for
Maccabi Rishon LeZion of the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
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, where he averaged 25.0 points per game, in the 2002–03 season. He was the
Israeli Premier League Top Scorer in the 2003–04 season.
In the 2004–05 season, he played in
Cyprus
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for the
Cypriot League club
Keravnos: he competed in the
2004–05 FIBA Europe Cup and won the 2005 edition of the
Cypriot Cup
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.
Honors
Davis is a member of the
UCSB Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame.
In 2013, he was honored by the
Gauchos, as he was named the fifth men's basketball "Legend of the 'Dome".
References
External links
Italian league statsIsraeli league stats
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1970 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in Argentina
American expatriate basketball people in Cyprus
American expatriate basketball people in Greece
American expatriate basketball people in Israel
American expatriate basketball people in Italy
American expatriate basketball people in Japan
American men's basketball players
Apollon Patras B.C. players
Basketball players from San Jose, California
Keravnos B.C. players
Maccabi Rishon LeZion basketball players
Mens Sana Basket players
Papagou B.C. players
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos men's basketball players
20th-century American sportsmen