NEW SIGNING: MAXWELL LEWIS ✍️🔥🦁
London Lions have pulled off a statement signing for the 2026-27 season, bringing in American forward Maxwell Lewis on a season-long loan from EuroLeague side Zalgiris Kaunas.
Lewis, 23, arrives in the capital with genuine NBA pedigree. The 6'7" wing was selected 40th overall in the 2023 NBA Draft and went on to share an NBA court with LeBron James, winning the league’s In-Season Tournament with the Los Angeles Lakers in his rookie year. He later moved to the Brooklyn Nets, appearing in 21 games and averaging 5.3 points and 2.5 rebounds before taking his game to Europe.
The forward has committed his long-term future to Zalgiris on a deal running through the end of the 2028-29 season, with the Lithuanian giants electing to loan him to London for the year ahead as the next step in his development. It is a vote of confidence in the Lions as the environment to push one of European basketball’s most promising young wings towards the EuroLeague level.
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