Background
Wesley, David was born on November 14, 1970.
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Wesley, David was born on November 14, 1970.
David graduated from in Longview, Texas. He was classmates with former NFL player Bobby Taylor. Wesley played his freshman year at Temple Junior College, then transferred to Baylor University.
Wesley averaged 17 points per game and 4.4 assists per game in 72 total games at Baylor, and left in 1992, 33 hours short of a degree in physical education.
He is the current television color analyst for the New Orleans Pelicans. He is the cousin of former National Basketball Association player Michael Dickerson. When Wesley left Baylor University in 1992, many scouts considered him too small (at 6"1") to play as a shooting guard in the National Basketball Association, and doubted his ability to make the transition to point guard.
As a result, Wesley was not selected in the 1992 National Basketball Association Draft.
He spent the 1992-1993 season in the College of Business Administration playing for the Wichita Falls Texans, and signed with the New Jersey Nets as a free agent in 1993. He later played for the Boston Celtics, the Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets the Houston Rockets, and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
He received praise as a tenacious man-to-man defender, and a reliable outside shooter. Wesley played in 55 playoff games and scored double figures in more than half of them.
During the 2006-2007 season, Wesley only played for 35 games and averaged career-lows of 2.1 points, 1.0 rebounds and 1.1 assists.
He also did not play any minutes during the playoffs. On September 29, 2007, he was traded back to the Hornets for Cedric Simmons. On November 1, 2007, not even a week after the Nets signed him, he was waived.
A few days later, Wesley stated he planned on ending his Wesley"s 11,842 career points ranks second all-time in National Basketball Association history among undrafted players, behind Moses Malone.
From 2011–2012, Wesley worked as an assistant coach for the National Basketball Association Doctorate-League Texas Legends. On August 6, 2012, it was announced that Wesley would join the Fox Sports New Orleans team in broadcasting New Orleans Hornets games.
(Since then, the team has been renamed the Pelicans) He was hired to be the Hornets" television color analyst. A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police report said Phills and Wesley were speeding at more than 100 mph (160 km/h) when Phills lost control and crossed into oncoming traffic and collided with a car.
The report said both Phills and Wesley were driving "in an erratic, reckless, careless, negligent and/or aggressive manner", and the men were "involved in a speed competition".
Host youth basketball camp, 1998.