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Pepperdine’s Maxwell Lewis will forgo eligibility after declaring for draft

Lewis is projected to be a first-round pick in the NBA draft after a career year at Pepperdine.

Pepperdine Waves sophomore Maxwell Lewis on Monday said he will forgo his remaining collegiate eligibility and remain in the 2023 NBA draft after a career year.

Lewis announced last week on social media that he would declare for the draft. He did not state in that announcement whether he’d keep the option to return to school, but he made his intentions clear in an interview with Jonathan Givony of ESPN.

“I’m going all-in and forgoing my college eligibility,” Lewis said.

He was named to the All-West Coast Conference second team after averaging 17.1 points, 5.7 rebounds and 2.8 assists on 46.8% shooting from the field in 31 games. He finished sixth in the conference in scoring and seventh in field-goal percentage.

The 6-foot-7 forward dazzled as a scorer throughout the season. He was ranked in the top 20 nationally in scoring earlier this year and put up a season-high 30 points twice. He has good size at his position as a wing and is a great rebounder.

Lewis is projected to be a first-round pick this year. He is slotted by most mock drafts to go in the 12-20 range given his skills and ability to score. He would be the first player from the program to be drafted in the first round since Brandon Armstrong in 2001.

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Projected first-round pick Maxwell Lewis to declare for NBA draft

Lewis was named to the All-West Coast Conference second team after averaging 17.1 points, 5.7 rebounds and 2.8 assists.

Pepperdine Waves sophomore Maxwell Lewis on Tuesday announced he plans to declare for the 2023 NBA draft after a career year with the program.

Lewis was named to the All-West Coast Conference second team after averaging 17.1 points, 5.7 rebounds and 2.8 assists on 46.8% shooting from the field in 31 games. He finished sixth in the conference in scoring and seventh in field-goal percentage.

The 6-foot-7 forward dazzled as a scorer throughout the season. He was ranked in the top 20 nationally in scoring earlier this year and put up a season-high 30 points twice. He has good size at his position as a wing and is a great rebounder.

Lewis is projected to be a first-round pick this year. He is slotted by most mock drafts to go in the 12-20 range given his skills and ability to score. He would be the first player from the program to be drafted in the first round since Brandon Armstrong in 2001.

Underclassmen have until April 23 to declare for the draft.

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2023 NBA Mock Draft 2.0: Wembanyama, Henderson on top; Freshmen rising in latest projections

Rookie Wire took a look at where the next draft class stands at the midway point of the season.

The 2022-23 basketball season is in full swing as the next wave of prospects across the college level and the professional ranks look ahead to the 2023 NBA draft on June 22.

Of course, Victor Wembanyama and Scoot Henderson remain at the top of draft boards at the start of the new year. Both could shut down their seasons right now and still be viewed as the best two players in the class. In other words: They are locked in at Nos. 1 and 2.

Elsewhere, though, fortunes change seemingly nightly.

Several prospects have improved upon their preseason rankings, while others have struggled and had their stock fall. The latest look at the class even has several freshmen on the rise after some impressive performances through the first half of the year.

Rookie Wire took a look at where the first round stands at the midway point of the season. It is important to note that team needs were not necessarily taken into account with each pick. The projections are rather a look at where each individual player stands at this point of the process.

Note: The order of the draft was pulled from Tankathon as of Jan. 10. The draft will have only 58 picks this year because the Bulls and Sixers were stripped of their second-round picks by the NBA due to tampering violations.