Debut: FIBA 2013 Oceania Championship
Height: 196cm
Major Tournaments - Olympics: 2020, 2024 FIBA World Cup: 2014, 2023.
Current team: Dallas Mavericks, NBA
Junior club: Keilor Thunder
Origin: Melbourne, Victoria
Biography
Born in Melbourne, Exum attended the AIS in Canberra and represented Australia at junior international level.
Selected with Pick 5 in the 2014 NBA, Danté Exum made his debut with the Utah Jazz where he spent five seasons and played 245 games including a stint with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Exum spent time at the Cleveland Cavaliers (2019 - 2021) before playing Euro ball for Barcelona (2021 - 2022) and Partizan NIS Belgrade (2022 - 2023)
The guard made a return to the NBA for Dallas in 2023 and played a key role in the NBA Finals campaign for the Dallas Mavericks in 2024 alongside fellow Boomer Josh Green.
Did You Know?
Danté Exum's father Cecil was drafted by the Denver Nuggets in 1984 and later carved out a brilliant NBL career in Australia with the Giants, Tigers and Supercats.
In the spirit of reconciliation Basketball Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
