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Dwight Davis (basketball)

American basketball player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Dwight E. Davis is a retired American professional basketball player. After playing college basketball at the University of Houston from 1969 to 1972, Davis was selected as the 3rd overall pick of 1972 NBA draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Nicknamed "Double D", Davis played for five seasons in the NBA.

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“Dwight Davis (basketball)” enters the record as american basketball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dwight, Davis and basketball can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dwight, Davis and basketball.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 19, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1969 and 1972.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dwight Davis (basketball)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.