Davis is a NBA Champion (2020), nine-time NBA All-Star (2014-21, 2024), All-Star Game MVP (2017), four-time All-NBA First Team selection (2015, 2017, 2018, 2020), five-time NBA All-Defensive Team (2015, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2024), All-Rookie First Team selection (2013), and three-time NBA blocks leader (2014, 2015, 2018). Anthony helped the United States win gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics, 2024 Paris Olympics, and the 2014 FIBA World Cup in Madrid. He has appeared in 736 NBA games (729 starts) for Los Angeles and New Orleans, and 60 playoff games (all starts) for the Lakers and Pelicans.

In his one year at the University of Kentucky, Davis gathered the following accolades: National Champion, Final Four Most Outstanding Player, Consensus First Team All-American, Wooden Award winner, Naismith Award winner, Rupp Trophy award winner, AP Player of the Year, NABC Defensive Player of the Year, All-SEC First Team selection, USBWA Player of the Year, USBWA Freshman of the Year, Sporting News Player of the Year, SEC Rookie of the Year, SEC Player of the Year, SEC Defensive Player of the Year, SEC All-Freshman Team Selection, SEC All-Defense Team selection. He appeared in 40 games (all starts), leading the NCAA in blocks (186) and blocks per game (4.7), and the SEC in field goal percentage (.623), free throws (144), offensive rebounds (119), defensive rebounds (296), total rebounds (415), blocks (186), and blocks per game (4.7).

Davis is from Chicago and was named All-Conference three consecutive years while playing for Perspectives Charter High School. He was the Co-MVP of the Jordan Brand Classic All-American Game, a finalist for the Morgan Wootten National Player of the Year Award, finalist for the Naismith Award, and a Parade first team All-American. Anthony is a two-time recipient of the NBA Cares Community Assist Award (March 2016; January 2015). He is known for his charitable acts, which include gifting Christmas shopping sprees to more than 200 children from local nonprofits and gifting a mother of two from the Kingsley House the brand-new Kia awarded to him as the 2017 NBA All-Star MVP.