Daniel Horton (basketball)

Daniel Horton (basketball)
Medal record
Men's basketball
Competitor for the  United States
FIBA Americas U18 Championship
Bronze 2002 Isla Margarita National team

Daniel Horton (born April 21, 1984 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a professional basketball player. He is a 6'3" 205 lb Guard.

He graduated in 2002 from Cedar Hill High School in Cedar Hill, a suburb of Dallas, Texas and was named to the 2002 McDonald's High School All-American team.

His brother is Jason Horton, that went to Missouri and has now graduated and is waiting to go play professionally. In 2004 two years after Daniel graduated Jason lead the Cedar Hill Longhorns to the state championship.

College career

Horton played four seasons for University of Michigan, from 2002 to 2006. He was voted to the All-Big Ten First Team by the media. He was voted All-Big Ten Second Team (by coaches). He was the 2004 NIT MVP. He was named 2003 Big Ten Freshman of the Year. He was named to the 2003 All-Big Ten Second Team. Finished 11th on Michigan’s all-time scoring list (1,614).

While at Michigan, Horton averaged 14.7 points, 4.4 assists, 2.6 rebounds and 1.70 steals. As a senior, Horton earned many of U-M’s yearly awards including the Bill Buntin Most Valuable Player Award, the Wayman Britt Outstanding Defensive Player Award, the Gary Grant Award for Most Assists, the Outstanding Free Throw Shooting Award and the Iron Man Award while averaging 17.6 points, 5.3 assists, 2.6 rebounds and 1.94 steals while also leading the Wolverines in scoring, assists and steals. Horton finished his career second all-time in school history in steals (187), three-point field goals (233) and three-point fields goals attempted (651) while placing fourth all-time with 484 assists.

Pro career

After going undrafted the 2006 NBA draft, he was signed by the Miami Heat during the 2007 preseason.

He played only one game and was waived by the Heat in October, and then moved to Turkey and signed for the Turkish Premier league team Pınar Karşıyaka[1].

He left after a couple of months after not receiving his wages from his team, so the Los Angeles D-Fenders signed him [2] in February 2007.

One year later, he left for France and signed for the Ligue Nationale de Basketball team Hyères-Toulon Var Basket.

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