Florida Gators wing Scottie Lewis will hire an agent and enter the 2021 NBA Draft, he announced Thursday with a post originally shared on Instagram.
Lewis came to Gainesville as a consensus top-10 recruit and a potential lottery pick in 2019, but two seasons of uneven offense have left him as a player who will need to impress scouts if he is going to be drafted at all.
Lewis possesses astonishing athleticism — as fleet of foot as any Gator ever, and blessed with spring-loaded legs, Lewis also went viral multiple times for showing off his flexibility by performing a kip-up when rising from the floor — and is regarded as a very good defender, but his inability to become a great defender is unlikely to hurt his NBA Draft stock as much as those offensive struggles will.