Tom Lewis resigned as boys basketball coach at JSerra. He coached the Lions for five seasons, and quickly created a program that has been a fixture in the county top 10 the past two seasons and certainly looked like a top 5 team going into the 2008-09 season.

Lewis resigned, according to a JSerra release, to work as a private coach of NBA players. The release does not mention which players, but Lewis has long had a working relationship with Tyson Chandler.

At JSerra, Lewis will be replaced by Grant Meyers, who has been an assistant coach at JSerra and is a history teacher there.

Lewis was a very good coach at JSerra. He attracted talented players, of course, but he also demanded they play the game the right way, which probably made him not too popular with a couple of the players, and their parents, at JSerra.

Lewis was one of the greatest players in county history, when he was a two-time CIF player of the year at Mater Dei.

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