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RJ Luis Jr.
| Column 1 |
|---|
| Luis in 2025 |
| Shooting guard / small forward |
| SEC |
| (2002-11-27) November 27, 2002Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| American / Dominican |
| 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) |
| 215 lb (98 kg) |
| Mt. Zion Prep Academy(Lanham, Maryland) |
| UMass (2022–2023) |
| St. John's (2023–2025) |
| LSU (2026–present) |
| 2025: undrafted |
| Consensus second-team All-American (2025) |
| Big East Player of the Year (2025) |
| First-team All-Big East (2025) |
| Big East tournament MOP (2025) |
| Haggerty Award (2025) |
| Atlantic 10 All-Freshman Team (2023) |
| Stats at NBA.com |
| Stats at Basketball Reference |
Reggie Jason "RJ" Luis Jr. (born November 27, 2002) is an American-Dominican college basketball player for the LSU Tigers of the SEC. He previously played college basketball for the St. John's Red Storm and UMass Minutemen. Luis went unselected in the 2025 NBA draft, and signed with the Utah Jazz before being traded to and waived by the Boston Celtics, and returned to college in 2026.
Coming out of high school, Luis was rated as the 233rd overall player in the class of 2022, where he committed to play college basketball for the UMass Minutemen.
As a freshman in 2022–23, Luis appeared in 27 games with ten starts, where he averaged 11.5 points, 4.6 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1.1 steals per game, while shooting 45.5 percent from the field and 34.8 percent from three-point range. He was named to the Atlantic 10 Conference all-freshman team. After the season, Luis entered his name into the NCAA transfer portal.
Luis transferred to play for the St. John's Red Storm. In his first season with the Red Storm in 2023–24, he appeared in just 23 games with ten starts due to being hampered by a hand injury, where he averaged 10.9 points and 4.6 rebounds per game. On February 7, 2025, Luis dropped 21 points and seven rebounds in a win over UConn. On February 16, 2025, he notched 21 points, 14 rebounds and five assists in a win over #24 Creighton. On March 1, 2025, he scored 21 points and grabbed six rebounds in a win over Seton Hall to clinch the Big East championship.
On May 19, 2026, after a year away from college basketball, Luis signed to play at LSU after going unselected in the 2025 NBA draft.
On June 26, 2025 after being undrafted in the 2025 NBA draft, Luis signed a two-way contract with the Utah Jazz. On August 6, Luis was traded alongside an $8 million trade exception to the Boston Celtics in exchange for Georges Niang and two future second-round draft picks. He was waived on October 15, before the start of the season. Following his cut, Luis signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the Celtics' NBA G League affiliate, the Maine Celtics.
Luis is American, Dominican, and Ecuadorian. Luis' father, Reggie Luis Charles, is Dominican, and his mother, Verito Luis, is Ecuadorian. Luis also has two younger sisters, Racheal and Rylee. He is fluent in both Spanish and English.
- St. John's Red Storm bio
- UMass Minutemen bio
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