| Romeo Weems | |
| Position: | Forward |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 7 |
| Weight Lbs: | 215 |
| League: | NBA G League |
| Team: | Rip City Remix |
| Number: | 88 |
| Birth Date: | 9 June 2001 |
| Birth Place: | Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| High School: | New Haven (New Haven, Michigan) |
| College: | DePaul (2019–2021) |
| Draft Year: | 2021 |
| Career Start: | 2021 |
| Years1: | 2021–2023 |
| Team1: | Memphis Hustle |
| Years2: | 2023–present |
| Team2: | Rip City Remix |
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Romeo Jajuan Weems (born June 9, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Rip City Remix of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the DePaul Blue Demons.
Weems grew up in Detroit, Michigan and attended New Haven High School in New Haven, Michigan, where he was a four-year starter on the basketball team.[1] As a freshman in 2015–16, he started in all 25 games and averaged 16 points, 10.7 rebounds, 5.1 assists, 4 steals and 1.8 blocks to help his team to a 22–3 record, a regional championship and the state Class B quarterfinals. As a sophomore in 2016–17, he started in all 28 games and averaged 18.1 points, 11.8 rebounds, 3.6 assists, 3.7 steals and 3.2 blocks to help his team to a 27–1 record, a second-straight regional title and a Class B state title. He averaged 23.5 points, 10.8 rebounds, 5.3 assists, 4.8 steals and 2 blocks per game and was named All-Michigan by USA Today in his junior season. As a senior, Weems averaged 27.9 points, 11.4 rebounds, 4.2 steals, 3.5 assists and 2.6 blocks per game and was named the Associated Press Division 2 Player of the Year and Mr. Basketball of Michigan.[2] Weems finished his high school career with 2,151 points scored.[3] Weems was considered to be a Top 50 recruit in his class and committed to playing college basketball for DePaul over offers from Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State and Oregon.[4]
As a freshman, Weems averaged 8 points, 1.7 assists, 4.9 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game and was named to the Big East Conference All-Freshman team.[5] [6] He was named the conference Freshman of the Week after a nine-point, five-rebound, three-block game in a 93–78 victory over Iowa on November 11, 2019, and scoring nine points with eight rebounds and four assists in a 75–54 win against Cornell on November 16, 2019.[7] [8] Weems repeated as Freshman of the Week after scoring 17 points, 11 rebounds, three steals and two assists in a 72–67 win over Boston College.[9] As a sophomore, Weems averaged 7.3 points and 5 rebounds per game. On April 7, 2021, he declared for the 2021 NBA draft, forgoing his remaining college eligibility.[10]
After going undrafted in the 2021 NBA draft, Weems joined the Memphis Grizzlies for the 2021 NBA Summer League[11] and on October 8, he signed with the Grizzlies.[12] However, he was waived on October 15.[13] On October 23, he signed with the Memphis Hustle as an affiliate player.[14]
On June 8, 2023, Weems was selected by the Rip City Remix in the 2023–24 NBA G League Expansion Draft[15] and on October 30, he officially joined the team.[16]
Weems played for United States National Team as they won the 2017 FIBA Under-16 Americas Championship.[17] He was a starter for Team USA and averaged 8.6 points and 8.1 rebounds per game when they won the 2018 FIBA U17 World Cup.[18]
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2019–20| style="text-align:left;"| DePaul| 32 || 32 || 30.1 || .427 || .365 || .607 || 4.9 || 1.7 || 1.3 || .8 || 8.0|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2020–21| style="text-align:left;"| DePaul| 18 || 15 || 28.6 || .376 || .366 || .696 || 5.0 || .9 || 1.3 || .6 || 7.3|- class="sortbottom"| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career| 50 || 47 || 29.5 || .408 || .365 || .633 || 4.9 || 1.4 || 1.3 || .7 || 7.7