{"id":22476,"date":"2025-07-25T06:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22476\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T06:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:53:07","slug":"mavericks-summer-star-leaving-nba-for-contract-in-europe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22476\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks&#8217; summer star leaving NBA for contract in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks gave a platform to Maxwell Lewis during NBA Summer League, and he used it well, putting up 12 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>But that wasn&#8217;t enough to stick with the Mavs or another NBA team.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Lewis is heading to Turkey to play for Tofas S.K., the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TofasSporKulubu\/status\/1948425162044379368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1948425162044379368%7Ctwgr%5E26695be454178d5ee368a4065be962caf91a5d58%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.si.com%2Fnba%2Fnets%2Fnews%2Fformer-nets-wing-signs-with-overseas-team-max-lewis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:announced on social media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">announced on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year old Lewis played the most recent NBA regular season with the Brooklyn Nets, averaging 5.3 points across 21 games.<\/p>\n<p>He then played with Cooper Flagg and company at Summer League in Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis was the 40th overall pick out of Pepperdine in 2023 by the Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/news\/warriors-steph-curry-retirement-plans\/3df5805d39c53ebb91db385a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steph Curry provides clarity on his retirement plans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Steph Curry provides clarity on his retirement plans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He joined the Lakers and spent lots of time with their G League affiliate in South Bay. He was then traded on Dec. 29 in the Dorian Finney-Smith deal, which is why he closed out the campaign in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Summer League features plenty of scouts from overseas, and apparently Lewis&#8217; strong play caught the attention of the Turkish club.<\/p>\n<p>Given Lewis&#8217; age, he very well could make it back to the NBA someday. For now, he&#8217;ll be plying his craft across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NBA NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks gave a platform to Maxwell Lewis during NBA Summer League, and he used it well,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[6996,49,48,2597,2695,6702,5407,18548,459,1227,82,12467],"class_list":{"0":"post-22476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-brooklyn-nets","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-cooper-flagg","12":"tag-dallas-mavericks","13":"tag-dorian-finney-smith","14":"tag-lakers","15":"tag-maxwell-lewis","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nba-summer-league","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-steph-curry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}