No. 5 – Salt Lake City Stars | |
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Position | Power forward / small forward |
League | NBA G League |
Personal information | |
Born | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. | April 12, 2002
Listed height | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) |
Listed weight | 245 lb (111 kg) |
Career information | |
High school | Baltimore Poly (Baltimore, Maryland) |
College | Marquette (2020–2022) |
NBA draft | 2022: undrafted |
Playing career | 2023–present |
Career history | |
2023 | Windy City Bulls |
2023–present | Salt Lake City Stars |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Stats at NBA.com | |
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Justin Lewis (born April 12, 2002) is an American professional basketball player for the Salt Lake City Stars of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Marquette Golden Eagles.
Lewis was born and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and initially attended Calvert Hall College High School.[1] He transferred to the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute after his freshman year.[2] As a junior, Lewis averaged 17.3 points and 9.2 rebounds per game with 16 double doubles and was named first team All-Metro and second team All-Maryland by USA Today as Baltimore Polytechnic won the state championship.[3] As a senior, he averaged 19.3 points, 13.4 rebounds and 4.4 blocks per game and was named the Metro Co-player of the Year and first-team All-Maryland while leading the team to a second straight state championship.[4] A four-star recruit, he committed to playing college basketball for Marquette over offers from UConn and Virginia Tech, among others.[5]
Lewis came off the bench for Marquette as a freshman.[6] He averaged 7.8 points and 5.4 rebounds per game.[7][8] On January 26, 2022, Lewis scored a career-high 33 points as well as nine rebounds and six assists in a 73–63 win against Seton Hall.[9] He was named to the First Team All-Big East, as well as Big East Most Improved Player.[10]
After becoming undrafted in the 2022 NBA draft, Lewis signed a two-way contract with the Chicago Bulls on July 7, 2022[11] and afterwards joined them in the 2022 NBA Summer League.[12] In his Summer League debut, Lewis scored eight points and five rebounds in a 100–99 win against the Dallas Mavericks.[13] Justin Lewis tore his ACL and was later waived on October 15 while he rehabbed the injury.[14]
On March 7, 2023, Lewis signed another two-way contract with the Chicago Bulls,[15] but was waived on December 16, after appearing in 12 games with the Windy City Bulls.[16] Two days later, he returned to Windy City.[17]
On December 27, 2023, Lewis was traded to the Salt Lake City Stars.[18]
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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2020–21 | Marquette | 21 | 1 | 21.0 | .417 | .219 | .577 | 5.4 | .8 | .4 | .7 | 7.8 |
2021–22 | Marquette | 32 | 32 | 32.2 | .440 | .345 | .761 | 7.9 | 1.7 | 1.1 | .6 | 16.8 |