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William Wise III (born October 30, 1992) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Eastern Mavericks of the Premier League in Australia. He played college basketball for TAMIU where as a junior he helped the team set school records in total wins in a season and most consecutive wins in a season, while also clinching the school's second ever berth to the NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Championship. He later transferred Dominican College (New York) where he finished out his collegiate career.

Early life and college career
Wise III, known to most simply as Will is a 6'9" Forward from Philadelphia. As a child, Wise had a rough upbringing as he was forced to grow up in foster care while living in various orphanages and homeless shelters due to his biological mother's known drug usage. At the age of fourteen Wise was adopted by Chrystie Cannon a local owner of a dance studio who is known in the community for her vigorous work with intercity youths through dance. Cannon was the owner of her own dance studio for over 25 years. Wise attended Abington Friends School for his freshman and sophomore years of high school before transferring to The Hun School of Princeton for his final two years where as a senior he averaged 16.3 points and 9 rebounds a game and was a 2011 McDonald's All American Game nominee.

Wise started his colligate career at UMBC where as a freshman he competed in 28 games and scored a season best 15-points and 9 rebounds against Loyola University. As a sophomore Wise had a tough year as he suffered a season ending ankle injury as well as his head coach at the time, Randy Monroe, deciding to resign just two days prior to the official start of practice. After only playing 6 total games that season Wise decided to transfer to TAMIU in the fall of 2013. In his first year with the Dustdevils Wise helped the team set school records in both total wins in a season (22) and most consecutive wins in a season (12), while also clinching the school's second ever berth to the NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Championship. In the Spring of 2015 Wise would apply for and be granted a waiver from the NCAA deeming his sophomore season at UMBC which ended in sudden injury, a Medical Redshirt year. This would allow Wise to have one more year of eligibility left and due to the fact he had already graduated it would allow him to transfer without having to oblige to the mandatory 1 year sit-out rule enforced by the NCAA on it's student athletes that choose to transfer. Wise would transfer to Dominican College in New York to finish his collegiate career he averaged 4.5 points and 3 rebounds with his lone season with the Chargers.

Professional career
Following the end of his college career, Wise signed with C.B. Nerja in Spain's 4th division. Wise led the team to a 10-13 record while averaging 21 points per game in his first season in professional basketball. In his second year of professional basketball Wise signed with CSM BC Sighetu Marmației in Romania. Initially the club played in the country's second-tier basketball league, Liga I but were promoted to the top-tier Liga Națională. Wise led the team to first place finish in stage I, while leading the team in scoring and rebounding with 24.3 points and 9.2 rebounds.

After leading CSM BC Sighetu Marmației to a group best 8-2 finish in Stage I and a 2-0 start in Stage II Wise opted to leave the club midseason and join the Eastern Mavericks of the Premier League in Australia. For the 2018 season Wise led the Eastern Mavericks in total points, total rebounds, minutes played, rebounds per game (7.44) and was second in scoring with 19.83 ppg. This placed Wise top 10 in both scoring and rebounding in the Premier League for the 2018 season.