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Bobby Lewis (basketball, born 1945)

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Bobby Lewis
Personal information
Born (1945-03-20) March 20, 1945 (age 79)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Listed height6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight175 lb (79 kg)
Career information
High schoolSt. John's (Washington, D.C.)
CollegeNorth Carolina (1964–1967)
NBA draft1967: 4th round, 39th overall pick
Selected by the San Francisco Warriors
Playing career1967–1971
PositionShooting guard
Number15, 5
Career history
1967–1970San Francisco Warriors
1970–1971Cleveland Cavaliers
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA statistics
Points1,481 (5.8 ppg)
Rebounds533 (2.1 rpg)
Assists555 (2.2 apg)
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Stats at Basketball Reference Edit this at Wikidata

Robert Franklin Lewis (born March 20, 1945) is an American former basketball player.

Lewis grew up in Northwest Washington, D.C., and developed a lot of his skills at the Jelleff's Boys Club in Georgetown, under the tutelage of Joe Branzell.

He played in high school at DC's St. John's College High School, playing for coach Joe Gallagher.

In his junior year, Lewis averaged 25.4 ppg, scoring a season high 40 vs the Georgetown frosh, and was named first team All Met.

In his Sr year, Lewis was the Daily News SSA Player of the Year, named first team All Met for the second year in a row, and capped it off with an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show as a Parade Magazine All-American for 1963.[1]

He then played for Dean Smith at the University of North Carolina, where he played an integral role on the 1967 ACC Champion and Final Four team. He averaged 27.4 points per game in 1966, the second-highest single-season average in UNC history. On December 16, 1965, he scored 49 points against Florida State, the most ever for a UNC player. He currently ranks tenth all time in scoring at UNC with 1,836 career points.

He was an All-ACC and All-America selection in 1966 and 1967. Because of his national accolades, Lewis' number 22 was honored by the University of North Carolina and currently hangs in the rafters of the Dean Smith Center.

He was selected by the San Francisco Warriors in the 4th round (39th pick overall) of the 1967 NBA draft. He was also selected by the Anaheim Amigos in the 1967 ABA Draft.[2]

He played for the Warriors in the NBA for three seasons and with the Cleveland Cavaliers for one. During his professional career, he averaged 5.8 points, 2.1 rebounds, and 2.2 assists per game.

Career statistics

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Legend
  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

NBA

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Source[3]

Regular season

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Year Team GP MPG FG% FT% RPG APG PPG
1967–68 San Francisco 41 8.3 .391 .772 1.4 1.0 4.4
1968–69 San Francisco 62 12.2 .390 .735 1.8 1.2 5.0
1969–70 San Francisco 73 18.5 .382 .658 2.2 2.7 7.2
1970–71 Cleveland 79 23.4 .370 .717 2.6 3.1 5.9
Career 255 16.9 .381 .712 2.1 2.2 5.8

Playoffs

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Year Team GP MPG FG% FT% RPG APG PPG
1968 San Francisco 1 4.0 .667 – .0 .0 4.0
1969 San Francisco 5 11.8 .393 .333 1.0 1.2 4.6
Career 6 10.5 .419 .333 .8 1.0 4.5

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "The All-America high school team". The Independent Star-News. March 31, 1963. p. 115. Retrieved July 10, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ "1967 ABA Draft at BasketballReference.com". Archived from the original on December 30, 2008. Retrieved December 12, 2009.
  3. ^ "Bobby Lewis NBA stats". Basketball Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 9, 2024.
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