BASKETBALL PLAYER

Walt Davis

1931 - 2020

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Walter Francis "Buddy" Davis (January 5, 1931 – November 17, 2020) was an American athlete. After winning a gold medal in the high jump at the 1952 Olympics he became a professional basketball player.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 2.04 metres (6 ft 8+1⁄4 in).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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walt Davis has received more than 62,447 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Walt Davis is the 222nd most popular basketball player (down from 208th in 2019), the 9,650th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,278th in 2019) and the 116th most popular American Basketball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 62k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Walt Davis by language

Over the past year Walt Davis has had the most page views in the with 6,221 views, followed by Chinese (1,149), and Spanish (659). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (76.92%), Basque (61.84%), and Chinese (27.67%)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Walt Davis ranks 222 out of 1,757. Before him are Michel Bonnevie, Christian Laettner, Spud Webb, Alex English, Ratko Radovanović, and Željko Rebrača. After him are Rodolfo Choperena, Arijan Komazec, Viktor Zubkov, Tim Hardaway, Artis Gilmore, and Kawhi Leonard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Walt Davis ranks 511. Before him are Leslie Bricusse, Frank Gardner, Paul Motian, Gloria Talbott, Anatoly Lein, and Otis Blackwell. After him are Nirupa Roy, Ali Beratlıgil, Mary L. Good, Jaime Salazar, Clement Arrindell, and Rip Taylor. Among people deceased in 2020, Walt Davis ranks 602. Before him are Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Horst Meyer, Miguel Jones, José Jiménez Lozano, MF Doom, and Adam Musiał. After him are Victor Chizhikov, Christian Poncelet, Tom Seaver, Mário da Graça Machungo, Kristina Lugn, and Henri Weber.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walt Davis ranks 9,650 out of 20,380. Before him are Willie Brown (1900), Jeff Stryker (1962), Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882), Tina Louise (1934), Joel Glazer (1970), and Alan Rudolph (1943). After him are Edward Brophy (1895), Sunrise Adams (1982), Irma Thomas (1941), Frank Henry (1909), Joey King (1999), and Harry Hebner (1891).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Walt Davis ranks 116. Before him are Alonzo Mourning (1970), Clyde Lovellette (1929), Joe Fulks (1921), Christian Laettner (1969), Spud Webb (1963), and Alex English (1954). After him are Tim Hardaway (1966), Artis Gilmore (1949), Kawhi Leonard (1991), Ed Macauley (1928), Penny Hardaway (1971), and Maurice Stokes (1933).

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