Davis was born and grew up in Sacramento, California and attended Sacramento High School. He was 5-foot-9 as a freshman but grew to 6-5 by the end of his sophomore year. Davis played on the junior varsity basketball until his junior year and did not see significant playing time until his senior season, when he averaged 9.1 points and 8.2 rebounds per game. After receiving interest from only one Division I basketball program, Davis opted to complete a fifth year at the New Hampton School in New Hampton, New Hampshire.
College career
Davis played four seasons for the Anteaters and was the team's starting power forward for his final three. As a freshman, Davis set the school record for blocks in a season with 55. He was named the Big West ConferenceDefensive Player of the Year as a sophomore and broke his previous school record and led the conference with 88 blocked shots. As a senior, Davis was named first team All-Big West and led the team with 12.9 points and 7.1 rebounds per game. He was named the Most Valuable Player of the 2015 Big West Conference Tournament as UC Irvine won its first conference championship and received its first-ever bid to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. He finished his career with a school-record 208 blocks, 852 career rebounds and 8th in scoring with 1,384 points.
Professional career
Kolossos Rodou
Davis signed with Kolossos Rodou B.C. of the Greek Basket League on August 20, 2015. In his first professional season, Davis averaged 7.0 points and 4.0 rebounds and 18.2 minutes played in 28 games.
Davis was selected by the Reno Bighorns in the second round of the 2016 NBA Development League draft. He averaged 9.7 points, 4.3 rebounds, and 1.1 blocks over 42 games for the Bighorns during the 2016-17 G League season and finished 6th in the G-League in field goal percentage with.611 and 8th with an offensive rating of 124.9. In his second season with Reno, Davis averaged 8.6 points, 4.3 rebounds and 18.6 minutes per game in 32 games before being traded.
Windy City
The Bighorns traded Davis to the Windy City Bulls on February 22, 2018. He averaged 4.4 points and 2.2 rebounds in 14 games with the Bulls and 7.4 points and 3.7 rebounds in 46 total G-League games. Davis was selected in the 2018 NBA G LeagueExpansion Draft by the Capital City Go-Go.
Larnaca
Following the G-League season, Davis signed with AEK Larnaca of the Cypriot Basketball League on August 6, 2018. Davis only appeared in two games with Larnaca before leaving the team, both in the qualifying round of the 2018–19 Basketball Champions League, scoring 28 points and grabbing 8 rebounds.
Davis returned to the G-League after his overseas rights were acquired in a trade from the Go-Go by the Long Island Nets on February 20, 2019. Davis played in 10 regular season games with the Nets, averaging 4.6 points and 3.0 rebounds with 11.5 minutes played per game and appeared sparingly in two playoff games as Long Island eventually lost in the G-League Finals to the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.
