Anthony Davis Age 2026: How Old Is Anthony Davis Now?

Last updated: November 8, 2026  ·  By Celebamerica Editorial Staff

Anthony Davis is 33 years old. He was born on March 11, 1993, in Chicago, Illinois, which makes him 33 years and eight months old as of November 2026 — and he turns 34 on March 11, 2027. The Washington Wizards big man is in his 15th NBA season, still producing like a star when he is on the floor, and still fighting the same question that has followed him for a decade: how much longer can his body hold up at this level?

Age matters more for Davis than for almost any other star of his generation, because his contract, his trade value and his next payday all turn on it. He is playing the final guaranteed year of his deal at a salary of $58.46 million, per Celebrity Net Worth, and he holds a $62.79 million player option for 2027-28. The Athletic reported in October 2026 that he wants a maximum-level extension — a four-year deal worth up to roughly $275 million if he declines that option — while the Wizards are, in the same reporting, described as almost certain not to offer it. Every game he plays at 33, and every game he misses, moves that negotiation.

This page answers the age question in full: his exact birth date, his age at every milestone of his career, how 33 compares with the other stars of his era, what he is earning at this age, and where he stands right now — including the sprained right ankle that kept him out of the Wizards’ November 6 game against Atlanta.

Anthony Davis: Quick Facts

How Old Is Anthony Davis?

Anthony Davis was born on March 11, 1993, in Chicago, Illinois. That makes him 33 years old as of November 2026. He will turn 34 on March 11, 2027, a few weeks before the end of the 2026-27 regular season.

His star sign is Pisces. He is one of the older starting big men still playing heavy minutes in the NBA, and one of the youngest players ever to reach the milestones he already owns: he won an Olympic gold medal at 19, before he had played a single NBA game, and he was an NBA champion by 27.

Some pages on the web still list Davis as 32. That figure is out of date — it was correct only until his birthday in March 2026. A few low-quality biography pages also still describe him as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers or the Dallas Mavericks. Both are stale: he was traded from the Lakers to Dallas in February 2025, then from Dallas to Washington in February 2026. If a page says he is 32 and a Laker, it has not been updated in at least a year.

Anthony Davis’s Age at Every Career Milestone

Davis packed more into his teens and twenties than most players manage in a full career. The timeline below shows how young he was at each turning point — and why, at 33, the conversation around him has shifted from what he might become to how much he has left.

The pattern is plain: Davis did his growing up in public, very fast. By the time most players are finding their footing, he had a national title, an Olympic gold and a No. 1 draft pick. By 27 he had a ring. What he has not had, at any age, is a long stretch of uninterrupted health — and at 33, that is the number that shapes every decision about his future.

Early Life and Chicago Roots

Anthony Marshon Davis Jr. was born on March 11, 1993, and raised in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. His parents are Anthony Davis Sr. and Erainer Davis. He has an older sister, Iesha, and a twin sister, Antoinette. His father played a steady role in his early basketball life, and the family kept him rooted in Chicago through his school years.

Davis attended Perspectives Charter School in Chicago, where his growth spurt became the stuff of recruiting legend. He entered high school as a 6-foot-2 guard and left it at 6-foot-10, keeping the guard skills — the handle, the shooting touch, the court vision — inside a big man’s frame. That late growth is the reason his game looks the way it does: a center’s length with a perimeter player’s instincts.

By his senior year he was one of the most sought-after recruits in the country, and he chose the University of Kentucky under John Calipari. He arrived in Lexington in the fall of 2011 as an 18-year-old with one season of college basketball ahead of him and no idea how completely that single season would define him.

Kentucky: One Season, One National Title

Davis spent one season at Kentucky, 2011-12, and it remains one of the great single seasons in college basketball history. He averaged 14.2 points, 10.4 rebounds and 4.7 blocks per game, led the Wildcats to the NCAA championship with a win over Kansas in the final, and swept every major national player of the year award — the Naismith, the Wooden and the AP award — as a freshman. He was also named Final Four Most Outstanding Player.

His defense was the story: 4.7 blocks a game, with timing and reach that made the paint a no-go area. Offensively he was efficient rather than flashy, shooting 62.3 percent from the field, finishing lobs and put-backs, and showing the soft touch that would later stretch out to the three-point line.

Before he ever played an NBA game, he was an Olympian. Team USA took the 19-year-old to London 2012, where he won gold. It was a rare honor — a college freshman on an Olympic roster — and it set the tone for a career in which the biggest stages arrived early.

New Orleans: The No. 1 Pick Grows Up

The New Orleans Hornets — renamed the Pelicans a year later — took Davis first overall in the 2012 NBA draft. He made his debut on October 31, 2012, at 19 years old. The franchise spent the next seven seasons building around him, and he repaid them by becoming one of the league’s best two-way players: a first All-Star nod at 20 in 2014, then a run of selections that would eventually reach ten.

The high point in New Orleans came in 2018, when Davis, then 25, led the Pelicans past Portland in a first-round sweep — the franchise’s first playoff series win in a decade. The low point was the ceiling: the team never got past the second round with him, and by early 2019 he had asked for a trade. The Pelicans held him through the deadline and moved him that summer.

Those seven seasons also set the pattern that still defines him. He missed games every year with a rotating list of injuries — shoulder, knee, ankle, back — while putting up numbers that placed him among the league’s elite whenever he played. The talent was never the question. Availability was.

Los Angeles Lakers: The 2020 Championship

In July 2019, at 26, Davis was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in a blockbuster that sent Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, Josh Hart and three first-round picks to New Orleans. The pairing with LeBron James was the move of that offseason, and it paid off within a year.

The 2019-20 season ended in the Orlando bubble with Davis’s first NBA championship: the Lakers beat the Miami Heat in six games in the Finals. Davis was the second star and, on many nights, the best player on the floor — a rim protector and switch defender who could also take over games offensively. He followed the title by signing a five-year, $190 million extension in December 2020.

The Lakers years after the title were uneven. Davis won the inaugural NBA Cup with the team in 2023, and he remained a top-ten player when healthy, but the roster around him and James never got back to the Finals. In August 2023, at 30, he signed a three-year, $186 million extension — the deal that still governs his pay today. It was briefly the richest annual contract in NBA history. Nobody in Los Angeles imagined, when he signed it, that he would be playing for a third team before it ran out.

The Luka Trade and the Dallas Detour

On February 2, 2025, the NBA world woke to one of the most shocking trades in league history: the Lakers sent Anthony Davis to the Dallas Mavericks for Luka Doncic, in a three-team deal also involving the Utah Jazz. Davis was 31. The Mavericks received Davis, Max Christie and a 2029 first-round pick; the Lakers got Doncic, Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris.

It went badly from the start. Davis was hurt in his Dallas debut, and his time with the Mavericks became a case study in the availability problem. Per reporting by Bleacher Report in October 2026, he played just 29 of a possible 115 games from the moment of the Luka trade. He missed the final 45 games of the 2025-26 season after suffering ligament damage in his left hand in January 2026, and he had played only 20 games in the 2025-26 season before the injury ended his year, averaging 20.4 points and 11.1 rebounds in those games.

The trade cost Dallas general manager Nico Harrison his job — he was fired in November 2025 — and by the February 2026 trade deadline the Mavericks decided to move on entirely. Davis had become, in the words of The Ringer’s February 2026 account of the deal, a player whose talent nobody doubted and whose health nobody could bank on. Dallas traded him for a package built around Khris Middleton, young players and draft picks, without getting a star back.

Washington Wizards: A New Start at 33

The Washington Wizards acquired Davis from Dallas in February 2026 in an eight-player trade at the deadline. Washington sent Khris Middleton, AJ Johnson, Malaki Branham and Marvin Bagley III to Dallas, along with two first-round draft picks and three second-round picks. In return the Wizards got Davis, Jaden Hardy, D’Angelo Russell and Dante Exum.

It was a sharp change of direction for a franchise that had lost 67 and 64 games in the two seasons before the trade. Washington had already traded for Trae Young, and adding Davis — alongside young core pieces like Alex Sarr, the No. 2 pick in 2024, and AJ Dybantsa, the No. 1 pick in the 2026 draft — was a declaration that the rebuild was over and the team wanted to compete for a playoff spot.

Davis did not play for Washington in 2025-26. The hand injury kept him out until after the season, so his Wizards debut came in the 2026-27 opener, eight months after the trade. Through his first eight games he has been exactly the player Washington hoped for: 23.4 points, 9.3 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.1 blocks per game, per ClutchPoints’ November 7, 2026 report, leading the team in scoring and rebounding. The question, as ever, is how many games he plays.

The Money: Salary, Net Worth and the Contract Question

For an age article, the money is the reason the age matters. Davis is one of the highest-paid players in NBA history, and the figures attached to his 33-year-old season are enormous — but they come with a decision attached that will define the rest of his career.

Net worth

Anthony Davis’s net worth is estimated at $160 million to $180 million as of November 2026. Celebrity Net Worth anchors the range at $180 million, on a snapshot dated November 5, 2026, and notes that he had earned more than $364 million in NBA salary alone through the end of the 2025-26 season. Other outlets carry lower figures — several published estimates from early 2026 put him at $160 million — which is why this page reports a range rather than a single number. The gap mostly reflects different treatments of taxes, spending and investment returns, none of which are public.

Salary and contract

Davis is in the final guaranteed year of the three-year, $186 million extension he signed with the Lakers in 2023. The money steps up each season:

The option is the fork in the road. If Davis takes the $62.79 million for 2027-28, he is paid like a maximum player for one more year and hits free agency at 35. If he declines it, he becomes eligible for a four-year extension worth up to roughly $275 million through 2030-31, per The Athletic. That is the deal his camp wants — a contract at or near maximum salaries, as David Aldridge and Josh Robbins reported on October 6, 2026 — and the same reporting says there is “almost no chance” Washington offers it, citing his age, his injury history and the team’s stage of development, with the luxury-tax aprons looming over any big commitment.

Davis has been eligible to sign an extension worth up to $275 million over four years since August 6, 2026. At media day on September 28, he said he intends to play out the season before making a decision on his future, including the player option. ESPN’s Brian Windhorst reported on November 7, 2026 that Washington wants to see Davis play 20 to 30 games and judge the fit before revisiting an extension — and that if no extension comes, Davis’s name will be on the trade market.

Endorsements and off-court income

Forbes listed Davis among the world’s highest-paid athletes in 2026, with total annual earnings of $58.1 million, and named Nike, Bacardi and Booking.com among his sponsors. Other reporting adds Red Bull and Beats to his endorsement portfolio. He has a long-running Nike relationship that includes his own signature shoe line, and he has spoken publicly about the sneaker collections — including Christian Louboutin pairs — that he started buying once he reached the league.

The endorsement money is a small slice next to the salary: the $58.46 million he earns on the court this season dwarfs his off-court income. That is why the contract decision matters so much more than any brand deal. At 33, this is very likely the last time Davis can command a maximum-level, multi-year NBA contract. The next one, if it comes, will be smaller and shorter.

Age in Context: How 33 Looks in the Modern NBA

Thirty-three is not old in the modern NBA — not anymore. Training, load management and sports science have stretched prime years well past 30 for the league’s best players. But 33 is the age where the range of outcomes widens fast: some stars stay elite into their late thirties, and others fall off a cliff in a single season. Davis’s own history makes the second outcome the one teams price in.

The comparison cuts both ways for Davis. On one side, big men who rely on athleticism tend to age faster than shooters: Durant and Curry can lean on skill as their legs go, while Davis’s game is built on explosion, lift and lateral quickness. On the other side, his per-game production has not slipped at all — 23.4 points and 9.3 rebounds at 33 is in line with his career averages of 24.0 points and 10.7 rebounds. The skills are intact. The body is the open question, and it has been for years: he has topped 62 regular-season games just once in the last eight years, in 2023-24, per RealGM’s October 2026 reporting.

For Washington, the age math is the whole gamble. If Davis gives them 60-plus healthy games a season for two or three more years, the trade is a win and the playoff push is real. If the pattern of the last two seasons repeats — 29 of 115 games played since the Luka trade, per Bleacher Report — then the Wizards paid five draft picks for a player who cannot stay on the floor. At 33, there is no more time to wait and find out slowly.

The Injury Question at 33

No honest account of Anthony Davis at 33 can skip the injuries. They are the single biggest fact about his career after the talent, and they are the reason his age carries more weight than it would for a healthier player.

The latest episode came on November 4, 2026, against the Atlanta Hawks. Davis sprained his right ankle in the first quarter, landing on teammate AJ Dybantsa’s foot while contesting a shot. He had the ankle wrapped, left for the locker room in the third quarter, and still finished the game with 26 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 blocks in under 30 minutes. Washington lost 120-105. Two nights later, in the NBA Cup rematch, he was ruled out with the sprain — his first missed game of the season. As of November 7, he was listed as questionable for the game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, with NBC Sports reporting that he would miss a second straight game if he could not go.

The history behind that ankle is long. A left hand ligament injury in January 2026 ended his 2025-26 season after 20 games and cost him the final 45 games of the year. Before that came calf strains, groin and quad tightness, and a string of ankle and knee problems across his Lakers and Pelicans years. NBC Sports noted in October 2026 that he has appeared in only 71 total games over the last two seasons combined.

None of this has dented his production when he plays. That is the paradox of Davis at 33: the per-game numbers of a top-15 player, attached to a games-played record that no team can build around with confidence. His age does not explain the injuries — he has been hurt at every age — but it does change how teams value the risk. A 26-year-old with this injury record gets the benefit of the doubt. A 33-year-old with a $62.79 million option decision coming does not.

Personal Life and Family

Davis keeps his private life quiet, and most of what is known comes from a small number of public moments. He is married to Marlen Polanco Davis. The couple began dating around 2017 and made their red-carpet debut at the Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty in 2020. They married in a private ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel on September 18, 2021, according to People magazine.

They have three children: a daughter, Nala, born in November 2017, and two sons born in the early 2020s. The sons’ names have not been made public, and Davis has kept them out of the spotlight — Nala is the only child who has appeared publicly with him, including at the 2020 championship celebration and the premiere of Space Jam: A New Legacy, in which Davis voiced a role.

His family remains close to his Chicago roots. His parents, Anthony Davis Sr. and Erainer Davis, and his sisters Iesha and Antoinette, have been a steady presence through his career, and Davis has spoken over the years about what it meant to grow up in Englewood and to make it out through basketball. He is also known for his long-standing friendship with the late Kobe Bryant, whom his daughter Nala called “uncle” — a bond that began when Davis was a young player in New Orleans and Bryant took an interest in his game.

Real Estate and Assets

Davis’s wealth is mostly in the form of career earnings — more than $364 million in NBA salary through 2025-26, per Celebrity Net Worth — rather than a public portfolio of businesses. He has not built the kind of visible off-court empire some of his peers have, and he has no widely reported major equity stakes or franchise ownership. What is documented is property.

In 2018 he bought a home in Westlake Village, California, for a reported $7.5 million. In 2021, fresh off the championship, he bought a mansion in Bel-Air for a reported $31 million, in a deal widely covered by Los Angeles property reporters at the time. Both purchases fit the pattern of a player who earned his biggest contracts in Los Angeles and put down roots there — even though his basketball life has since taken him to Dallas and now Washington.

Beyond property, his most valuable asset is the contract itself: $58.46 million this season, a $62.79 million player option for 2027-28, and eligibility for a four-year extension worth up to roughly $275 million if he declines the option. Whether that extension ever materializes is the biggest open question in his financial life, and it will be settled by what his 33-year-old body does over the next few months.

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Sources and Reporting

How we estimated: The age in this article is a matter of public record — Anthony Davis was born March 11, 1993, in Chicago, Illinois — and it is confirmed by StatMuse, which lists him as 33 years old with a March 11, 1993 birth date. Money figures are estimates built from public reporting, not audited statements: Celebrity Net Worth anchors the net worth range at $180 million (snapshot November 5, 2026), with other published estimates from early 2026 at $160 million, so we report $160 million to $180 million. Salary and contract figures come from Celebrity Net Worth ($58.46 million for 2026-27, $62.79 million player option, more than $364 million in career salary) and from The Athletic’s October 6, 2026 reporting by David Aldridge and Josh Robbins (the $62.8 million option, the up-to-$275 million extension eligibility, and the Wizards’ stance). Season stats are from StatMuse and ClutchPoints (November 7, 2026). Injury reporting is from NBC Sports and Heavy (November 5-7, 2026). Where sources disagree, we name who says what instead of picking a number and hiding the disagreement.

Sources consulted: StatMuse · Celebrity Net Worth · The Athletic · NBC Sports · Heavy · ClutchPoints · Bleacher Report · The Ringer · ESPN · Forbes · People · BasketballNews · SportsDunia