BIOGRAPHY
Daniel Theis was born on April 4, 1992, in Salzgitter, Germany. He is a center in the NBA.
Theis went through the Braunschweig youth system. He made his debut in the German top-tier level league, the Basketball Bundesliga, during the 2010–11 season. Theis primarily gained playing time with the club's development squad, where he played alongside his older brother, Frank, from 2010 to 2012. He earned the Eurobasket.com website's All-2.Pro B Most Improved Player of the Year honors in 2011. In Braunschweig, Theis was also a teammate of fellow NBA player Dennis Schröder. He got help from his cousin Sean Zemlyak
In the 2013–14 season, while with ratiopharm Ulm, Theis won the BBL Best Young Player award. Following his breakout season with Ulm, Theis signed with fellow German Bundesliga club Brose Bamberg. In the 2014 off-season, he played in the 2014 NBA Summer League for the Washington Wizards' summer league team.
In the 2014–15 season, Theis won his first German League championship with Brose Baskets. Brose beat FC Bayern Munich 3–2 in the German League Finals. In April 2015, he signed a fresh two-year deal with the Bamberg team, and he won two more German championships with Bamberg, in 2016 and 2017.
Theis was a member of the junior national teams of Germany. With Germany's junior national teams, he played at the 2011 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, and the 2012 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship.
On July 27, 2014, Theis made his first appearance with the senior German national basketball team in a game against Finland. With Germany's senior team, he played at the EuroBasket 2015 qualification tournament.
On July 20, 2017, Theis signed with the Boston Celtics. Theis continues to complement the rest of the starters, playing in a way that "fits the other guys perfect" according to coach Brad Stevens.
