Chris Horton (basketball)
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_2_Reyer_Venezia_EuroCup_20251008_(4).jpg) Horton with Reyer Venezia in 2025 | |
| No. 2 – Umana Reyer Venezia | |
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| Position | Power forward / center |
| League | LBA |
| Personal information | |
| Born | June 29, 1994 Decatur, Georgia, U.S. |
| Listed height | 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) |
| Listed weight | 225 lb (102 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Columbia (Decatur, Georgia) |
| College | Austin Peay (2012–2016) |
| NBA draft | 2016: undrafted |
| Playing career | 2016–present |
| Career history | |
| 2016–2017 | Grand Rapids Drive |
| 2017–2018 | Alba Fehérvár |
| 2018–2019 | Kymi |
| 2019–2020 | Cholet |
| 2020 | BCM Gravelines-Dunkerque |
| 2021 | Cholet |
| 2021–2022 | Nanterre |
| 2022 | Hapoel Tel Aviv |
| 2022–2023 | Lokomotiv Kuban |
| 2023–2025 | Trapani Shark |
| 2025–present | Reyer Venezia |
| Career highlights | |
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Chris Horton (born June 29, 1994) is an American professional basketball player for Umana Reyer Venezia of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He played college basketball at Austin Peay.
Horton was a four-year starter for the Austin Peay Governors. During his freshman season, Horton set a school record for blocks in a season with 100 and finished sixth in Division I with 3.23 blocks per game to go with 8.2 points and 6.8 rebounds per game this season and was named the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) Freshman of the Year and to the conference All-Newcomer team. As a senior, he averaged 18.8 points, 12.0 rebounds and 1.75 blocks per game and 25 double-doubles and was named first team All-OVC.[1] Horton was named the MVP of the 2016 OVC tournament after scoring 90 points and grabbing 57 rebounds during eighth-seeded Governors' run to the conference title.[2] Horton finished his collegiate career as the fifth-leading scorer in school history with 1,719 points, the second-leading rebounder with 1,261 and the all-time leader with 319 shots blocked (2nd most in OVC history).[3]