Career
He also represents the Latvian national basketball team He was selected with the 42nd pick in the 2011 National Basketball Association Draft by the Indiana Pacers, who later sent him to the San Antonio Spurs. Union Olimpija
In November 2010, Bertāns signed a multi-year contract with the Slovenian team Union Olimpija.
Following April, Bertāns competed in the 2011 Nike Hoop Summit.
Bertāns was selected in the second round (42nd overall) of the 2011 National Basketball Association Draft by the Indiana Pacers. However, his rights were immediately traded to the San Antonio Spurs.
Partizan Belgrade
On 4 January 2012, 19-year-old Bertāns signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with the Serbian club Partizan Belgrade. In the Serbian League finals series against FMP Železnik in June 2013, he tore the Anterior Cruciate Ligament on his right knee which sidelined him off the court for 9 months.
Eight days later, on 28 March 2014, Dāvis scored team-leading 20 points in a road Euroleague Top 16 loss at Lokomotiv-Kuban.
Partizan ended the season by winning its 13th and Dāvis" third consecutive Serbian League title, defeating rivals FMP Železnik 3-1 in the finals series. On 3 July 2014, Bertāns terminated his contract with the club Laboral Kutxa Baskonia
On July 19, 2014, Bertāns signed a three-year contract with the Spanish team Laboral Kutxa Baskonia.
On March 26, in a game against Emporio Armani Milano, Bertāns tore the Anterior Cruciate Ligament on his right knee, the same injury that sidelined him in 2013.
lieutenant is expected that the period of the recovery will take 6 to 8 months. Over 22 Euroleague games, he averaged 11 points and 2.9 rebounds per game, while also averaging 11.4 points in 25 games of the Spanish League.
In Laboral Kutxa Baskonia"s very next game following Bertāns" injury, a Spanish League contest versus Valencia British Columbia, each Baskonia player wore Bertāns" number 42 in a show of support for their sidelined teammate. Bertāns represented Latvia at the EuroBasket 2011.
He averaged 5.6 points and 2 rebounds per game for Latvia.
Bertāns" older brother, Dairis, is also a professional basketball player. Their father, Dainis, was a professional basketball player and is currently a youth coach. Their mother is a sports teacher and a former high level rower.