Career Highlights

Career Transactions:
Selected by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round (first pick overall) of the 1987 NBA Draft.

David has led an outstanding career with tremendous accomplisments:

  • 1999 & 2003 NBA World Champion

  • NBA MVP 1995

  • College Player of the Year in 1987

  • Named one of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players of All-Time 1996

  • NBA Defensive Player of the Year 1992

  • NBA Rookie of the Year 1990

  • 5 time winner of the IBM Award: 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995 and 1996

  • 1994 NBA Scoring Title

  • 1991 NBA Rebounding Title

  • 1992 NBA Blocked Shot Title

  • All-NBA First Team four times (1991, 1992, 1995 and 1996)

  • All-NBA Second Team twice (1994 and 1998)

  • All-NBA Third Team twice (1990, 1993 and 2000)

  • Only player in NBA history to be named to both an All-NBA Team and an NBA-All Defensive team in each of his first seven NBA seasons.

  • A 10-time All-Star

  • Named NBA Player of the Week 15 times and NBA Player of the Month 4 times

  • Won the NBA Rebounding Title in 1991, the NBA Blocked Shots Title in 1992 and the NBA Scoring Title in 1994 (he and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are the only two players in NBA history to win each of the three titles)

  • Named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team four times (1991, 1992, 1995 and 1996) and the All-Defensive Second Team four times (1990, 1993, 1994 and 1998)

  • Only male basketball player in U.S. history to appear in three different Olympic Games; was the leading scorer on the 1996 Team which captured  gold in Atlanta, was a member of the 1992 Team that won the gold in Barcelona and the 1988 Team that won the bronze in Seoul.

  • 1987 Pan American Team and the 1986 USA World Championship Team

  • 1999 Montblanc de la Culture Award, the first athlete and youngest recipient in the award's history

  • Member of both the San Antonio Sports Hall of Fame and the Texas Sports Hall of Fame

  • Honored with the 2001 NBA Sportsmanship Award

  • Sporting News 1999 Good Guys in Pro Sports Awards

  • 1998 Inductee World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame

  • Scored 71 Points in 1994

  • Registered Quadruple Double in 1994

  • The Spurs all-time NBA leader in games, rebounds, blocked shots, assists and both FT made and attempted and is second in franchise history in points and both FG made and attempted