Quincy Spencer Davis III ( zh, 戴維斯; born 16 February 1983) is a Taiwanese professional
basketball
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player who plays for the
New Taipei Kings
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Facilities Home arenas
Training facilities
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of the
P. League+.
He
renounced his U.S. citizenship in June 2013 to naturalize in Taiwan so that he could play for the
Chinese Taipei national team in international competition.
Childhood and education
Davis was born in
Los Angeles
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,
California
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in an
African American
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family.
He graduated from
McGill–Toolen Catholic High School
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in
Mobile
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,
Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
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in 2002 before going on to
Tulane University
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, where he played for
Tulane Green Wave men's basketball
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. As a freshman, in a game against the
University of Southern Mississippi
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he matched the school record for single-game
field goal percentage
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. In his four-year career there until 2006, he scored a total of 1,106 points, including 56 games with more than 10 points and 12 with more than 20. He collected 559
rebounds
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, including 226 offensive rebounds, making him one of just fourteen players in school history to achieve both a thousand points and five hundred rebounds. He also set the school record with a .577 career field goal percentage.
Early career
Davis first went overseas to play for
ETHA Engomis
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The club was founded in 1942, but didn't win its first trophy until 2011. ETH ...
in
Cyprus
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in 2006. The next season, he played in
Portugal
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. In February 2008 he signed with , a
Liga Profesional de Baloncesto
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team in
Venezuela
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. There, he appeared in eight games, averaging 5.5 points per game. The following year, he moved to
mainland China
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to play in the
National Basketball League. After his next season in
Turkey
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, he came to
Taiwan
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to join
Pure-Youth Construction in the
Super Basketball League
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Current clubs
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.
In March 2012, he won SBL's Player of the Month award for leading his team to a 6–1 record that month with an average of 20.1 points, 14 rebounds, 1.9 blocks, two assists, and 1.4 steals per game.
Davis also became a partner in Coast To Coast Basketball, a basketball instruction institute founded in 2007 by fellow expatriate player
Edward Hardy II.
Naturalization in Taiwan
The suggestion that Davis join the
Chinese Taipei national team was first floated in January 2013 at the SBL 2012 MVP award ceremony. At the time, Davis stated that he was open to the idea of
naturalizing as a Republic of China citizen so he could represent Taiwan in international competition. He said that of all the places in which he had played basketball, he felt happiest in Taiwan.
However, naturalization would require him to