Sometimes I joke about a particular player being so obscure that nobody has ever heard of them. Such comments, when I happen to make them, are always in jest. For every modern player, there is a significant amount of people who remember them from a stint on a favorite college or pro team. Most historical players in the past three decades have retained some amount of recognition from old-timers, except those whose NBA game total is in the single digits.
Mark Davis is an exception to this axiom.
I made this video and I still don’t have a clear idea if this guy even really existed. He was a small forward according to basketball-reference. He couldn’t shoot jumpers. He had a short career and only logged real minutes in one season and part of another. Every team he played for was garbage, probably because he was playing for them, and he was garbage himself. So he was like a skinnier, decade-earlier Joey Graham?
Texas Tech fans might remember him. Howard University(?) fans might remember him. Fans of any team he played for, though, will want to do nothing but forget him, in the unlikely scenario that they even remembered him in the first place.
And I want to forget that I ever made this video.