Kornél Dávid

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Dávid Kornél
Personal information
Born (1971-10-22) October 22, 1971 (age 52)
Strasbourg IG
2002–2003BC Žalgiris
2003–2006TAU Cerámica
2006–2008CB Gran Canaria
Career highlights and awards
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Dávid Kornél (in

NBA
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Early life

Dávid grew up with the

Albacomp (Székesfehérvár) recruited Dávid and was his team up to the 1996–97 championship season.[citation needed
]

NBA career

Dávid was signed by the

.

On 21 January 1999, Dávid was signed as a free agent by the Chicago Bulls and was waived in January 2000. A few days later, he signed the first of two consecutive 10-day contracts with the Cleveland Cavaliers. He then moved back to Hungary in February and was signed for the remainder of the season by Albacomp Székesfehérvár. Again Dávid would bring accolades by leading Albacomp Székesfehérvár to the 2000 Hungarian National Cup. Next, Dávid signed as a free agent by the Toronto Raptors in August 2000 and was then traded to the Detroit Pistons in February 2001.

Dávid played 109 NBA games, starting 11, averaging 5.0 points and 2.8 rebounds per game. A retrospective short documentary about his NBA career entitled Kornél on Tour was produced in 2017.[1][2][3]

Post-NBA career

He moved to France for the 2001-02 season, signing in November with

Strasbourg IG. Later, Dávid moved to BC Žalgiris of Lithuania
for the 2002-03 season, and promptly captured the Lithuanian National Championship.

He went to Spain for the 2003-04 season, donning jersey number 18 for TAU Cerámica. Dávid played a decisive role in the team's first Final Four appearance. He averaged 10.3 points and 4.2 rebounds in the regular season, but his numbers went up to 14.5 points and 5.3 rebounds in the Top 16, helping Tau to reach the playoffs. In October 2010 he was appointed as the director of international scouting for the Phoenix Suns.

In December 2012, Dávid became the president of the Hungarian club Alba Fehérvár.

Personal

He is married to handball player

Fruzsina Azari. Their first born son,Dalton Barnabas was born in July 2017. Their second son Benedikt Mor was born also in July,but 2021. [4]

Career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  PIR  Performance Index Rating
 Bold  Career high  *  Led the league

NBA

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1998–99 Chicago 50* 6 18.0 .449 .000 .811 3.5 .8 .5 .3 6.2
1999–00 Chicago 26 5 17.0 .426 .000 .808 2.8 .6 .5 .1 6.5
1999–00 Cleveland 6 0 5.2 .444 .750 1.3 .2 .7 .2 1.8
2000–01 Toronto 17 0 8.2 .517 .923 1.9 .2 .1 .2 2.5
2000–01 Detroit 10 0 6.9 .455 1.9 .3 .4 .1 2.0
Career 109 11 14.5 .446 .000 .817 2.8 .6 .4 .2 5.0

Euroleague

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG PIR
2002–03 Žalgiris 13 13 33.0 .536 1.000 .793 8.2 1.1 .9 .8 16.9 21.8
2003–04 TAU Cerámica 20 17 28.1 .523 .333 .773 5.3 1.8 1.1 .5 12.2 13.2
2004–05 TAU Cerámica 23 15 26.1 .529 .500 .888 4.9 1.0 .8 .5 10.9 12.7
2005–06 TAU Cerámica 25 13 21.1 .500 .200 .853 4.8 .5 1.0 .5 9.1 10.3

See also

  • List of foreign NBA players

References

  1. ^ "Features - NBA.com". watch.nba.com.
  2. ^ "Ingyen nézhető a Dávid Kornélról szóló zseniális magyar dokumentumfilm". 11 August 2021.
  3. ^ "fmc.hu - Ingyen megnézhető a Dávid Kornélról készült film az NBA honlapján". fmc.hu.
  4. ^ "Gólyahír: megszületett Dávid Kornél gyermeke" (in Hungarian). Blikk.hu. 12 July 2017.

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