No. 12 – Baloncesto Fuenlabrada | |||||||||||||
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Position | Forward | ||||||||||||
League | Liga ACB | ||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||
Born |
Long Beach, California |
September 21, 1990 ||||||||||||
Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) | ||||||||||||
Listed weight | 225 lb (102 kg) | ||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||
High school | Mater Dei (Santa Ana, California) | ||||||||||||
College |
North Carolina (2009–2010) UCLA (2011–2014) |
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NBA draft | 2014 / Undrafted | ||||||||||||
Playing career | 2014–present | ||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Reno Bighorns | ||||||||||||
2015 | Sacramento Kings | ||||||||||||
2015–present | Baloncesto Fuenlabrada | ||||||||||||
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David Earl Wear, Jr. (born September 21, 1990) is an American professional basketball player who plays for Baloncesto Fuenlabrada of the Liga ACB. He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels and the UCLA Bruins. As a high school athlete, Wear was selected to participate in the 2009 McDonald's All-American Game and played on the 2008 silver medal winning USA Basketball U18 team at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship tournament.
Wear attended Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California where he was a two-time California Interscholastic Federation State champion in 2007 and 2008. As a junior, he averaged 18.9 points and 10.0 rebounds per game. As a senior, he averaged 16.4 points and 7.5 rebounds per game. Wear was selected as the 2009 county boys' basketball player of the year, a 2009 fourth-team Parade All-American, a repeat first team all-county member, first team All-Division I-AA member, first team all-league member, second team all-state in 2009, and an all-state sophomore in 2007.
Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, Wear was listed as the No. 16 power forward and the No. 59 player in the nation in 2009.
Wear and his twin brother, Travis, played for the defending national champion North Carolina Tar Heels in their freshman year. Wear contributed 2.9 points and 1.7 rebounds a game while averaging over 10 minutes per game. The Tar Heels missed the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament, which upset their fans. Brother Travis said playing for North Carolina "wasn't what I thought it would be." The twin brothers transferred after the season in May 2010 to UCLA. They redshirted the following season due to NCAA transfer rules.