UNC basketball legend Walter Davis, Olympic gold medalist and 6-time NBA All-Star, dies at 69

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UNC basketball legend Walter Davis, Olympic gold medalist and 6-time NBA All-Star, dies at 69
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The Phoenix Suns selected Davis with the No. 5 pick in the 1977 NBA Draft.

Walter Davis, a University of North Carolina basketball legend and an Olympic gold medalist for the United States, died of “natural causes” Thursday, the school announced. He was 69. Davis — the uncle of current UNC coach Hubert Davis — was a two-time All-ACC honoree with the , leading the team to an ACC tournament win and to the NCAA championship game. The guard scored 1,863 points and put up 670 rebounds and 409 assists playing for coach Dean Smith.

men’s basketball team, coached by Smith, that took gold at the Montreal Olympics. The selected Davis with the No. 5 pick in the 1977 NBA Draft. He was named the 1977-78 Rookie of the Year and became a six-time All-Star over his 15-year NBA career, which also included stints with the and . Davis made two All-NBA teams, averaging 18.9 points on 51.1 percent shooting to go along with 3.0 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game before retiring in 1992. The Pineville, N.C.

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