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{{Short description|American basketball player}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
| name            = Bobby Lewis
| image           = Bob Lewis 1965.jpeg
| width           = 
| caption         = Lewis, circa 1965
| height_ft       = 6
| height_in       = 3
| weight_lb       = 175
| birth_date      = {{birth date and age|1945|03|20}}
| birth_place     = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
| high_school     = [[St. John's College High School|St. John's]] (Washington, D.C.)
| college         = [[North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball|North Carolina]] (1964–1967)
| draft_year      = 1967
| draft_round     = 4
| draft_pick      = 39
| draft_team      = [[San Francisco Warriors]]
| career_start    = 1967
| career_end      = 1971
| career_number   = 15, 5
| career_position = [[Shooting guard]]
| years1          = {{nbay|1967|start}}–{{nbay|1969|end}}
| team1           = [[San Francisco Warriors]]
| years2          = {{nbay|1970|full=y}}
| team2           = [[Cleveland Cavaliers]]
| highlights =
* 2× Third-team [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] – [[National Association of Basketball Coaches|NABC]] ([[1966 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1966]], [[1967 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1967]])
* Third-team All-American – [[Associated Press|AP]] (1966)
* 2× First-team [[List of All-Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball teams|All-ACC]] (1966, 1967)
* Second-team All-ACC (1965)
* First-team [[Parade All-America Boys Basketball Team|''Parade'' All-American]] (1963)
| stats_league    = NBA
| stat1label      = [[Point (basketball)|Points]]
| stat1value      = 1,481 (5.8 ppg)
| stat2label      = [[Rebound (basketball)|Rebounds]]
| stat2value      = 533 (2.1 rpg)
| stat3label      = [[Assist (basketball)|Assists]]
| stat3value      = 555 (2.2 apg)
}}
'''Robert Franklin Lewis''' (born March 20, 1945) is an American former professional [[basketball]] player.

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

He attended [[St. John's College High School]] in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington, D.C]], where he played for coach Joe Gallagher.

As a junior, Lewis averaged 25.4 points per game, including a season-high 40 points against the Georgetown freshman team. He was named first team All-Met.

As a senior, he was named the Daily News SSA Player of the Year and First Team All-Met for the second consecutive year. He also appeared on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'' as a [[Parade All-America Boys Basketball Team|Parade Magazine All-American]] in 1963.<ref>{{cite news|title=The All-America high school team|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/31746820/?terms=Parade%2Ball-America%2Bbasketball |newspaper=The Independent Star-News |date= March 31, 1963|page=115|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|accessdate = July 10, 2016}} {{Open access}}</ref>

He went on to play for coach Dean Smith at the [[North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball|University of North Carolina]], where he played an integral role on the 1967 ACC Champion and Final Four team. In 1966, he averaged 27.4 points per game, the second-highest single-season average in UNC history. On December 16, 1965, he scored 49 points against [[Florida State]], which remains the highest single-game scoring total in school history. Lewis 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 hangs in the rafters of the [[Dean Smith Center]].

Lewis was selected by the [[San Francisco Warriors]] in the fourth round (39th pick overall) of the [[1967 NBA draft]].  He was also selected by the [[Anaheim Amigos]] in the [[1967 ABA Draft]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.basketballreference.com/draft/draftyear.htm?lg=A&yr=1967# |title=1967 ABA Draft at BasketballReference.com |access-date=2009-12-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081230023424/http://www.basketballreference.com/draft/draftyear.htm?yr=1967&lg=A# |archive-date=2008-12-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He played for the Warriors for three seasons and 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==
{{NBA player statistics legend}}

Source<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/l/lewisbo01.html|title=Bobby Lewis NBA stats|website=[[Basketball Reference]]|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|accessdate=9 June 2024}}</ref>

===NBA===

====Regular season====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
|-
! Year
! Team
! GP
! MPG
! FG%
! FT%
! RPG
! APG
! PPG
|-
|style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1967}}
|style="text-align:left;"| [[1967–68 San Francisco Warriors season|San Francisco]]
| 41 || 8.3 || '''.391''' || '''.772''' || 1.4 || 1.0 || 4.4
|-
|style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1968}}
|style="text-align:left;"| [[1968–69 San Francisco Warriors season|San Francisco]]
| 62 || 12.2 || .390 || .735 || 1.8 || 1.2 || 5.0
|-
|style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1969}}
|style="text-align:left;"| [[1969–70 San Francisco Warriors season|San Francisco]]
| 73 || 18.5 || .382 || .658 || 2.2 || 2.7 || '''7.2'''
|-
|style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1970}}
|style="text-align:left;"| [[1970–71 Cleveland Cavaliers season|Cleveland]]
| '''79''' || '''23.4''' || .370 || .717 || '''2.6''' || '''3.1''' || 5.9
|- class="sortbottom"
|style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 255 || 16.9 || .381 || .712 || 2.1 || 2.2 || 5.8
|}

====Playoffs====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
|-
! Year
! Team
! GP
! MPG
! FG%
! FT%
! RPG
! APG
! PPG
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1968 NBA playoffs|1968]]
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1967–68 San Francisco Warriors season|San Francisco]]
| 1 || 4.0 || '''.667''' || &ndash; || .0|| .0 || 4.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1969 NBA playoffs|1969]]
| style="text-align:left;"| [[1968–69 San Francisco Warriors season|San Francisco]]
| '''5''' || '''11.8''' || .393 || '''.333''' || '''1.0''' || '''1.2''' || '''4.6'''
|- class="sortbottom"
|style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 6 || 10.5 || .419 || .333 || .8 || 1.0 || 4.5
|}

==See also==
*{{Portal-inline|Sports}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{basketballstats|nba_historical=bobby_lewis|bbr=l/lewisbo01}}

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