Greg Lewis (basketball)
| No. 42 – Atenas | |
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| Position | Power forward |
| League | Liga Nacional de Básquet |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
September 6, 1978 Akron, Ohio |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
| Listed weight | 215 lb (98 kg) |
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| NBA draft | 2002 / Undrafted |
| Playing career | 2002–present |
| Career history | |
| 2002–2003 | KTP-Basket |
| 2003 | Brevard Blue Ducks |
| 2003–2004 | Londrina |
| 2004 | Chicago Soldiers |
| 2005 | Waikato Titans |
| 2006 | Marinos |
| 2006 | Soles de Mexicali |
| 2006–2012 | ??? |
| 2012 | La Union |
| 2012–present | Atenas |
| 2013 | Marinos |
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Gregory Devon "Greg" Lewis (born September 6, 1978) is an American professional basketball player. In college, he was the Big South Conference player of the year as a senior in 2001–02. He was also a two-time Big South Tournament MVP in 2000 and 2002. Since graduating he has played professionally in numerous countries, and in 2012–13 he was named Latinbasket.com's All-Liga Americas MVP while playing for Asociación Deportiva Atenas in Argentina.
Greg Lewis grew up in Akron, Ohio without a father and admitted that he was "a little wild" as a youth. He would run away from home, and his grades at Akron East High School suffered due to his absences (he had to repeat his sophomore year because he missed 160 days of school). Lewis became more focused when he met an ordained minister by the name of John Saucier. Saucier had started Team JAM (Jesus, Athletics, Ministry), a basketball program used to create better role models out of troubled or disadvantaged high schoolers. Saucier also convinced Lewis to attend Medina First Baptist School for a fifth year of high school due to his grades at Akron East. In his final prep year, Lewis increased his grade point average from 0.9 at Akron East to 2.9 by graduation at Medina. On the basketball court, he averaged 29.6 points and 13 rebounds per game en route to all-state honors.
Unable to play for an NCAA Division I right away, Lewis signed to play for Seward County Community College in Kansas, but due to frequent run-ins with their head coach, he stayed only one semester. The following year, Lewis enrolled at Howard College in Texas, where he averaged 17.9 points and 8.0 rebounds per game and led the team to a 26–6 record. After his year at Howard, he wanted to play for the University of South Alabama, but his mother would not sign the scholarship papers because she felt uncomfortable with that decision, citing that they "did not have his best interest at heart."
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