Know Your Team: Ed Horton

KW Titans

6'3

Guard

From Shreveport, Louisiana

Now in his third season with the KW Titans, and his fifth overall in the NBL Canada, Ed Horton has flourished into one of the top players on the team and a well known fixtures in all of the league.

An all-state player with a 19.9 points per game average in his senior year at Southwood High School, Horton made the move to Corsicana, Texas, to play for the Navarro Bulldogs in the NJCAA. In the 2004-05 season his 45% three-point shooting was the eleventh-best in all of America, which earned him the attention of the Birmingham-Southern Panthers in the NCAA Division 1.

Horton played one season with the Panthers, starting in every game and posting averages of 8.3 points and 2.8 total rebounds per game, before finishing his college career with a season with the Murray State Racers in Kentucky, where he won Ohio Valley Conference defensive second team honours.

As a professional, Horton first played for the East Kentucky Miners in the Continental Basketball Association. In 2010 he won the first of two American Basketball Association championships with the Jacksonville Giants, in between he played for KR Reykjavik in Iceland, averaging 16.0 points, 4.5 assists and 3.9 rebounds.

After representing the USA in the 2013 William Jones Cup, Horton went on to play in Nicaragua for Tiburones Bancentro, for whom he averaged 20.0 points, 5.1 rebounds and 4.3 assists while shooting 51% from the field and 45% from three-point territory. The following season he won his third ABA title with the Shreveport-Bosier Mavericks, himself being named season and finals MVP.

2014 saw him make his first appearance in the NBL Canada for the London Lightning, for whom he played two seasons. After which, he moved to the KW Titans, and though a latecomer to the season posted 11.7 points, 3.1 assists and 2.8 rebounds in 16 games. The following season for the Titans he had his best results of his NBLC career, averaging 15.7 points per game, as well as 3.7 assists and 3.0 rebounds.

Having proved himself in his first two seasons, Horton has been made an integral part of the Titans' game plan - and has repaid the team for their faith in him. After seventeen starts out of seventeen for the team in 2018-19, he was on 11.8 points and 2.8 in both rebounds and assists and has been a big part in their rise to the league's highest ranks across the season.

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