Dane Watts

Dane Watts
Dane Watts (left, 2017)
Player information
Full name	Anthony Dane Watts
birthday	April 20, 1986 (34 years and 133 days)
place of birth	Kansas City (MO), USA
size	203 cm
position	Power forward
college	Creighton
Clubs as active
2004–2008 Creighton Bluejays ( NCAA ) 2008–2009 EnBW Ludwigsburg 2009–2011 WALTER Tigers Tübingen 2011 Hyères-Toulon Var 2011–2013 ratiopharm ulm 2014 Skyliners Frankfurt 2014–2015 Cajasol Sevilla 2015 Limburg United 2015–2017 Güssing Knights 2016–2018 Oettinger Rockets 00000 00000 00000

Anthony Dane Watts (born April 20, 1986 in Kansas City , Missouri ) is an American basketball player who has played as a professional since 2008 and was under contract with several clubs in the German basketball league . He played for the Gotha Rockets until the end of the 2017/18 season .

Career

At a height of 2.03 m, he usually takes the position of the power forward . He attended Warrensburg High School. From 2004 to 2008 he played during his studies at Creighton University in Omaha ( Nebraska ) for the Bluejays in NCAA Division I, with which he reached the national finals in 2005 and 2007 , in which, however, you were eliminated in the first round.

He then moved to EnBW Ludwigsburg in the basketball league in 2008. From 2009 Watts was active for two seasons with league rivals and local rivals Walter Tigers Tübingen. In his three seasons, however, his teams did not manage to qualify for the play-offs for the German championship . After the end of the BBL season 2010/11, he moved to the French LNB Pro A for the Provencal club Hyères-Toulon Var Basket, which had qualified for the play-offs for the French championship. Already in the quarter-finals, the southern French had to admit defeat to the eventual champions SLUC Nancy Basket and after three completed games Watts left the club again.

For the 2011/2012 season Watts moved back to the BBL and received a contract with ratiopharm ulm. With this team he was runner- up in the basketball Bundesliga 2011/12 . In the following season, the Ulm team started again on the international stage for the first time after their recovery in 2007 and immediately reached the knockout games of the quarter-finals in the second most important European club competition Eurocup 2012/13 . But Watts had to undergo a necessary intervertebral disc operation due to acute deficits in mid-February 2013 , which meant he was out the rest of the season. After all, it took Watts just under a year before he signed a professional contract again.

At the beginning of January 2014 Watts finally returned to active sport and signed a contract until the end of the season with the Ulm league competitor Fraport Skyliners from Frankfurt am Main to replace his compatriot Jacob Burtschi, who was also injured in his back .

The 2014/2015 season began Watts in the highest Spanish league with the Eurocup participant Cajasol Sevilla , in January 2015 there was a separation. He then moved to Limburg United in Belgium. After this station Watts went to the Austrian Bundesliga to the UBC Güssing Knights .

In November 2016 he returned to Germany after being signed by the Gotha Rockets . With the Thuringians he reached the Bundesliga promotion as ProA runner-up in spring 2017. He contributed to this success with averages of 13.5 points and 7 rebounds (in 30 missions). In the 2017/18 season Watts missed relegation in the Bundesliga with the Thuringians.

Web links

Commons : Dane Watts  - Collection of Images

• easyCredit BBL - Dane Watts - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• WATTS, DANE - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
• Dane Watts Stats - Creighton Bluejays - College Playtime Profile & Statistics on statsheet.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dane Watts Biography - GoCreighton.com. Creighton University : GoCreighton.com, 2007, accessed on May 7, 2011 (English, player profile on the Unisport website). 
2. ↑ Dane Watts - Hyeres-Toulon - Joueurs - Pro A - LNB.fr. (No longer available online.) Ligue Nationale de Basket , archived from the original on February 3, 2014 ; accessed on July 6, 2011 (French, player profile). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Lena Bauer, Matthias Sauter: Basketball Ulm: Watts is the next new one. Südwest Presse , July 6, 2011, archived from the original on May 4, 2013 ; Retrieved January 19, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Dane Watts is out for the rest of the season. ratiopharm Ulm , February 13, 2013, accessed on January 19, 2014 (Medien-Info). 
5. ^ Skyliners sign Watts. (No longer available online.) Hessischer Rundfunk , January 17, 2014, archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; Retrieved January 19, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ ACB.COM. Retrieved May 9, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Dominique Nuydt: Scooore League: Dane Watts, de Séville à Limburg United - video . In: Basket in Belgium, actualité du basketball en Belgique . ( basketinbelgium.be [accessed May 9, 2017]).
8. ↑ Transfer coup at the end !: UBC Güssing Knights. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on May 9, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
9. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Dane Watts is now strengthening the Oettinger Rockets. Retrieved May 9, 2017 . 
10. ↑ New Rockets concept: games in the future in the exhibition hall and Riethsporthalle . In: Thuringian General . ( thueringer-allgemeine.de [accessed on September 29, 2018]).