Chris Daniels joins joins Qingdao

Chris Daniels (211 cm, Texas A&M – Corpus Christi’08) has signed with the Qingdao Double Star Eagles (China-CBA) to finish the season. Over the past two seasons he’s been playing in the NBA D-League, most recently with the Santa Cruz Warriors and prior to that the Erie Bay Hawks (since 2011). He also played for Anyang KGC (Korea-KBL) in 2012, where he averaged 18.1ppg over 26 games and was third in the league in blocks with 1.7bpg.

From the ESPN NCAA Tournament Guide from 2007:

Chris Daniels. The 7-footer from San Antonio was the Southland Conference’s Player of the Year this season (15.2 ppg, 6.6 rpg, 1.5 bpg), and has NBA scouts checking him out. He can opt to return for one more season at Corpus Christi after regaining the year of eligibility he lost due to academics as a freshman. He says he probably will return for one more year.

Daniels is also quite the character. One of his many nicknames on the team is Big Greasy — “because I used to weigh 300 pounds. And my lips are extremely big. I got teased a lot as a little kid. Imagine these lips on a 6- or 7-year-old’s body!” Deep down, Daniels seems like quite the teddy bear — which is rather ironic since, according to the team’s media guide, he sleeps with a teddy bear. “Aw man they’re just playin’, I don’t sleep with no teddy bear,” Daniels replied when questioned about that. “They just told me to say that for fun.”