Chris Watson (Hebrew: כריס ווטסון; born July 16, 1975) is an American–Israeli former basketball player, who has played on the Israel national basketball team, and whose positions have been power forward and center.

[5] He attended Niagara University, where he played for the Purple Eagles basketball team in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

[1] He led the team in scoring in his final three seasons, and was third in the Conference in scoring in both his junior (16.8 points per game) and senior (17.4 points per game, as he led the Conference with a .568 field goal percentage) seasons.

[3] He has played in Belgium (Leuven Bears), Sweden, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, and Israel (Hapoel Tel Aviv, Hapoel Holon, Ironi Ramat Gan, GreenTops Netanya, and Ironi Ashkelon).

[4] Watson was selected to the Israeli Basketball Premier League All-Star Game in 2011.

[3] He played for Hapoel Be'er Sheva in the Israel National League from 2014 to 2016.