# Dāvis Bertāns
**Dāvis Bertāns** (born 1992) is a Latvian professional basketball player, a 6-foot-10 (2.08 m), 225-pound forward known as one of the most accurate high-volume three-point shooters of his era, who played nine NBA seasons and currently plays for [Dubai Basketball](https://www.edgepedia.org/dubai-basketball).[1](https://www.nba.com/player/202722/davis-bertans) • [2](https://www.aba-liga.com/news/54310/dubai-basketball-extend-contracts-with-klemen-prepelic-davis-bertans-and-nemanja-dangubic/) His nickname in the NBA was the "Latvian Laser."
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 1992, Latvia; 6'10" (2.08 m), 225 lb (102 kg)[1](https://www.nba.com/player/202722/davis-bertans) |
| Draft | 2011 NBA Draft, second round, 42nd pick, by the Indiana Pacers; rights immediately traded to the San Antonio Spurs[1](https://www.nba.com/player/202722/davis-bertans) • [3](https://www.fiba.basketball/en/news/latvias-davis-bertans-bounces-back) |
| NBA career | Nine seasons: Spurs, Wizards, Mavericks, Thunder, Hornets; career 39.6% from three[4](https://www.si.com/nba/hornets/onsi/news/hornets-player-grades-d-vis-bertans) • [5](https://as.com/baloncesto/mas_baloncesto/bertans-escoge-dubai-n/) |
| Best NBA season | 2019-20 with Washington: 15.4 points per game, 3.7 three-pointers made per game at 42%[6](https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/sports/basketbols/26.08.2025-lsm-skaidro-kas-ir-latvijas-izlases-basketbolisti-un-kadu-speli-var-gaidit-eiropas-cempionata.a611708/) |
| Contract | Five years, $80 million from the Wizards in 2020, one of the most lucrative contracts in Latvian sport at the time[7](https://as.com/baloncesto/acb/osman-o-bertans-que-aportaria-cada-uno-al-madrid-n/) • [6](https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/sports/basketbols/26.08.2025-lsm-skaidro-kas-ir-latvijas-izlases-basketbolisti-un-kadu-speli-var-gaidit-eiropas-cempionata.a611708/) |
| Current club | Dubai Basketball (ABA League), joined for the inaugural 2024/25 campaign, contract extended in March 2026[2](https://www.aba-liga.com/news/54310/dubai-basketball-extend-contracts-with-klemen-prepelic-davis-bertans-and-nemanja-dangubic/) |
| National team | Latvia, including the 2023 World Cup and the 2024 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Riga[6](https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/sports/basketbols/26.08.2025-lsm-skaidro-kas-ir-latvijas-izlases-basketbolisti-un-kadu-speli-var-gaidit-eiropas-cempionata.a611708/) • [8](https://www.fiba.basketball/en/players/169406-davis-bertans) |
## Early career in Europe
Bertāns grew up in a basketball family in Rūjiena, Latvia; his father and first coach, Dainis Bertāns, negotiated his first professional move. On his 18th birthday in 2010, having been named to the All-Star five of the European U-18 championship, he signed with the [EuroLeague](https://www.edgepedia.org/euroleague) club Olimpija Ljubljana, with a 3+3 contract structure that began with a season in the club's farm team.[9](https://www1.basket.lv/jauniesu_izlases/sievietes_u-20/news/3961?season=3)
He then spent two seasons with Partizan Belgrade (2012-13 and 2013-14), winning the Serbian championship twice.[5](https://as.com/baloncesto/mas_baloncesto/bertans-escoge-dubai-n/) • [10](https://likme.tv/teams/davis-bertans/) In June 2013, while playing for Partizan, he tore the ACL in his right knee and missed nine months.[3](https://www.fiba.basketball/en/news/latvias-davis-bertans-bounces-back) He returned with the Spanish club Laboral Kutxa (Baskonia) in Vitoria, where he played from 2014 to 2016, averaging more than 11 points per game in the EuroLeague and shooting 34.9% from three (22 of 63) as the club reached the Top 16.[3](https://www.fiba.basketball/en/news/latvias-davis-bertans-bounces-back) • [11](https://luckydiena.com/sportists/davis-bertans/)
## NBA career
Although drafted in 2011, Bertāns did not get his NBA opportunity until 2016, when he debuted for the [San Antonio Spurs](https://www.edgepedia.org/san-antonio-spurs) under coach [Gregg Popovich](https://www.edgepedia.org/gregg-popovich); the role established him as one of the league's more accurate three-point shooters.[6](https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/sports/basketbols/26.08.2025-lsm-skaidro-kas-ir-latvijas-izlases-basketbolisti-un-kadu-speli-var-gaidit-eiropas-cempionata.a611708/) In his rookie 2016-17 season he played 67 games for the Spurs, averaging 4.5 points in 12.1 minutes while shooting 39.9% from three.[12](https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/bertada01.html)
**Breakout in Washington.** In 2019 he moved to the [Washington Wizards](https://www.edgepedia.org/washington-wizards), who expanded his role by running plays for him and tailoring their style to his strengths.[13](https://kcwizards.theoffside.com/nba/2019/12/18/21024240/davis-bertans-wizards-trade-value-highlights-stats) In his first Washington season he ranked fourth in the NBA in three-pointers made per game (3.6), led the league in catch-and-shoot threes made per game (3.1), and shot 42.9% from beyond the arc, the same full-season mark he had posted with [San Antonio](https://www.edgepedia.org/san-antonio) the year before.[14](https://atlantahawkspr.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-mtn-dew-three-point-contest-field-announced-2-4-20.pdf) That season, in which he averaged 15.4 points per game, earned him the five-year, $80 million contract from the Wizards in 2020.[6](https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/sports/basketbols/26.08.2025-lsm-skaidro-kas-ir-latvijas-izlases-basketbolisti-un-kadu-speli-var-gaidit-eiropas-cempionata.a611708/) • [7](https://as.com/baloncesto/acb/osman-o-bertans-que-aportaria-cada-uno-al-madrid-n/)
**Later seasons.** Production declined after the contract. In 2021-22 he averaged 5.6 points, 2.1 rebounds, and 14.4 minutes in 56 games split between Washington and Dallas, shooting 33.5% from three, his only NBA season below 35%; in February 2022 he was included in the trade that sent [Kristaps Porziņģis](https://www.edgepedia.org/kristaps-porzingis) to Washington.[15](https://cdn.nba.com/teams/uploads/sites/1610612760/2023/10/mediaguide-2324.pdf) • [7](https://as.com/baloncesto/acb/osman-o-bertans-que-aportaria-cada-uno-al-madrid-n/) He was traded to the [Oklahoma City Thunder](https://www.edgepedia.org/oklahoma-city-thunder) in 2023 and to the [Charlotte Hornets](https://www.edgepedia.org/charlotte-hornets) in 2024, the Hornets being his last NBA team; in 2023-24 with Oklahoma City he played 31 games, averaging 6.1 points and shooting 38.5% from three.[5](https://as.com/baloncesto/mas_baloncesto/bertans-escoge-dubai-n/) • [1](https://www.nba.com/player/202722/davis-bertans)
## Shooting profile
Bertāns's value rests almost entirely on long-range shooting at high volume. Across his nine-year NBA career he shot 39.6% from three, with a large share of his attempts coming from deep.[4](https://www.si.com/nba/hornets/onsi/news/hornets-player-grades-d-vis-bertans) In Dallas in 2021-22 he took 81% of his shots from three-point range, the fourth-highest rate among the 212 players with at least 500 attempts, and in the preceding season he made 40% of 7.5 three-point attempts per game, a mark considered a "down" year only because he had hit 43% in each of his two previous seasons with the Spurs.[16](https://www.dmagazine.com/sports/2022/03/davis-bertans-time-is-coming/)
## National team and Dubai
Bertāns has been a mainstay of the Latvian national team, playing in the 2023 World Cup and remaining committed to the program after leaving the NBA; his style fits the open, perimeter-oriented system of national team coach Luca Banchi, because defenses cannot leave him unguarded.[6](https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/sports/basketbols/26.08.2025-lsm-skaidro-kas-ir-latvijas-izlases-basketbolisti-un-kadu-speli-var-gaidit-eiropas-cempionata.a611708/) At the 2024 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Latvia he played four games, averaging 8.5 points.[8](https://www.fiba.basketball/en/players/169406-davis-bertans)
In 2024 he joined Dubai Basketball, a new club competing in the [ABA League](https://www.edgepedia.org/aba-league), for its inaugural 2024/25 campaign alongside captain Klemen Prepelič and Nemanja Dangubić; in March 2026 the club confirmed contract extensions for all three.[2](https://www.aba-liga.com/news/54310/dubai-basketball-extend-contracts-with-klemen-prepelic-davis-bertans-and-nemanja-dangubic/)
## Family
His older brother, Dairis Bertāns, known as the "Latvian Rocket," is also a long-serving Latvian national team player and its captain, who briefly played in the NBA with the [New Orleans Pelicans](https://www.edgepedia.org/new-orleans-pelicans) in 2019.[18](https://latvijassportisti.lv/sportisti/dairis-bertans/) • [6](https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/sports/basketbols/26.08.2025-lsm-skaidro-kas-ir-latvijas-izlases-basketbolisti-un-kadu-speli-var-gaidit-eiropas-cempionata.a611708/)
## References
1. [Dāvis Bertāns player page, NBA.com](https://www.nba.com/player/202722/davis-bertans)
2. [Dubai Basketball Extend Contracts with Klemen Prepelič, Davis Bertans and Nemanja Dangubić, ABA League](https://www.aba-liga.com/news/54310/dubai-basketball-extend-contracts-with-klemen-prepelic-davis-bertans-and-nemanja-dangubic/)
3. [Latvia's Davis Bertans bounces back, FIBA Basketball](https://www.fiba.basketball/en/news/latvias-davis-bertans-bounces-back)
4. [Hornets Player Grades: Dāvis Bertāns, Sports Illustrated](https://www.si.com/nba/hornets/onsi/news/hornets-player-grades-d-vis-bertans)
5. [Bertans escoge Dubái, Diario AS](https://as.com/baloncesto/mas_baloncesto/bertans-escoge-dubai-n/)
6. [LSM skaidro: Kas ir Latvijas izlases basketbolisti, LSM.lv](https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/sports/basketbols/26.08.2025-lsm-skaidro-kas-ir-latvijas-izlases-basketbolisti-un-kadu-speli-var-gaidit-eiropas-cempionata.a611708/)
7. [Osman o Bertans, ¿qué aportaría cada uno al Madrid?, Diario AS](https://as.com/baloncesto/acb/osman-o-bertans-que-aportaria-cada-uno-al-madrid-n/)
8. [Davis Bertans (Latvia), FIBA player profile](https://www.fiba.basketball/en/players/169406-davis-bertans)
9. [Dāvis Bertāns izvēlas Ļubļanas Olimpiju, Basket.lv](https://www1.basket.lv/jauniesu_izlases/sievietes_u-20/news/3961?season=3)
10. [Dāvis Bertāns biogrāfija, Likme.tv](https://likme.tv/teams/davis-bertans/)
11. [Dāvis Bertāns, Luckydiena](https://luckydiena.com/sportists/davis-bertans/)
12. [Dāvis Bertāns Stats, Basketball-Reference](https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/bertada01.html)
13. [The NBA whiffed on Davis Bertans, SB Nation](https://kcwizards.theoffside.com/nba/2019/12/18/21024240/davis-bertans-wizards-trade-value-highlights-stats)
14. [2020 MTN DEW Three-Point Contest field announced, Atlanta Hawks PR](https://atlantahawkspr.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-mtn-dew-three-point-contest-field-announced-2-4-20.pdf)
15. [Dāvis Bertāns, Oklahoma City Thunder 2023-24 Media Guide](https://cdn.nba.com/teams/uploads/sites/1610612760/2023/10/mediaguide-2324.pdf)
16. [Davis Bertans' Time Is Coming, D Magazine](https://www.dmagazine.com/sports/2022/03/davis-bertans-time-is-coming/)
17. [Davis Bertans must do more for the Wizards to thrive, The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/05/19/davis-bertans-contract-wizards-celtics/)
18. [Dairis Bertāns, Latvijas Sportisti](https://latvijassportisti.lv/sportisti/dairis-bertans/)
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