Ty Lawson

Retired • Retired after 2023 season • PG • 9 years of NBA experience

Height5'11
Weight195 lbs
Born3rd November 1987 (age 38)
Nationality🇺🇸USA
NBA Draft18th pick, 20092009 Early Entry: Stayed in2008 Early Entry: Withdrew
Pre-draft teamNorth Carolina
HandRight
Agentn/a
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Representative Teams
NBA Summer League - Las Vegas 2010 roster
Denver Nuggets
NBA Summer League - Las Vegas 2009 roster
Denver Nuggets

Stats
Year League Team GMPGPTS/GFGFGAFG% 3P3PA3P% FTFTAFT%ORBDRB TRBASTSTLBLKTOVPF
2009-10 NBA Denver Nuggets 65 20.3 8.3 3.1 6.0 51.5% 0.5 1.3 41.0% 1.6 2.2 75.7% 0.6 1.3 1.9 3.1 0.7 0.0 1.3 1.4
2010-11 NBA Denver Nuggets 80 26.3 11.7 4.3 8.6 50.3% 0.9 2.1 40.4% 2.2 2.8 76.4% 0.8 1.8 2.6 4.7 1.0 0.1 1.7 1.7
2011-12 EuroLeague Zalgiris 7 21.3 7.4 2.6 6.0 42.9% 0.4 1.1 37.5% 1.4 3.0 47.6% 0.6 2.4 3.0 1.6 0.9 0.0 1.0 1.9
2011-12 NBA Denver Nuggets 61 34.8 16.4 6.1 12.6 48.8% 1.2 3.3 36.5% 2.9 3.5 82.4% 0.9 2.8 3.7 6.6 1.3 0.1 2.4 1.5
2012-13 NBA Denver Nuggets 73 34.4 16.7 6.1 13.3 46.1% 1.2 3.2 36.6% 3.2 4.3 75.6% 0.5 2.2 2.7 6.9 1.5 0.1 2.5 1.8
2013-14 NBA Denver Nuggets 62 35.8 17.6 5.6 13.0 43.1% 1.2 3.3 35.6% 5.2 6.5 79.8% 0.6 2.8 3.5 8.8 1.6 0.2 3.2 1.8
2014-15 NBA Denver Nuggets 75 35.5 15.2 5.4 12.3 43.6% 0.9 2.7 34.1% 3.5 4.8 73.0% 0.6 2.6 3.1 9.6 1.2 0.1 2.5 1.7
2015-16 NBA Houston Rockets 53 22.2 5.8 2.1 5.4 38.7% 0.6 1.8 33.0% 1.1 1.5 70.0% 0.4 1.3 1.7 3.4 0.8 0.1 1.5 1.3
2015-16 NBA Indiana Pacers 13 18.1 4.9 2.2 5.2 41.8% 0.4 1.1 35.7% 0.2 0.5 50.0% 0.5 1.9 2.4 4.4 0.8 0.1 1.0 1.2
2015-16 NBA Total (NBA) 66 21.4 5.7 2.1 5.4 39.3% 0.5 1.6 33.3% 0.9 1.3 68.6% 0.4 1.4 1.8 3.6 0.8 0.1 1.4 1.3
2016-17 NBA Sacramento Kings 69 25.1 9.9 3.4 7.6 45.4% 0.5 1.7 28.8% 2.5 3.1 79.7% 0.6 2.0 2.6 4.8 1.1 0.1 1.9 1.7

Teams
DateTeam
2006 - 2009 North Carolina (NCAA)
June 2009 - August 2011 Denver Nuggets (NBA)
August 2011 - December 2011 Zalgiris Kaunas (Lithuania)
December 2011 - July 2015 Denver Nuggets (NBA)
July 2015 - March 2016 Houston Rockets (NBA)
March 2016 - June 2016 Indiana Pacers (NBA)
August 2016 - June 2017 Sacramento Kings (NBA)
August 2017 - present Shandong (China)

Transactions
DateLeagueTransaction
2009 NBA Draft NBA Drafted 18th overall by Minnesota Timberwolves.
2009 NBA Draft NBA Draft rights traded by Minnesota Timberwolves to Denver Nuggets in exchange for a protected future first-round pick (2010, #16, Luke Babbitt).
14th July 2009 NBA Signed four-year, $7,064,472 rookie scale contract with Denver Nuggets. Included team options for 2011/12 and 2012/13.
21st October 2010 NBA Denver Nuggets exercised 2011/12 team option.
20th June 2011 NBA Denver Nuggets exercised 2012/13 team option.
15th August 2011 Lithuania Signed for the duration of the NBA lockout with Zalgiris Kaunas.
1st December 2011 Lithuania Opted out to return to the NBA.
30th October 2012 NBA Signed a four-year, $48 million extension with Denver Nuggets.
20th July 2015 NBA Traded by Denver Nuggets, along with a 2017 second-round pick (#43, Isaiah Hartenstein), to Houston Rockets in exchange for Nick Johnson, Kostas Papanikolaou, Joey Dorsey, Pablo Prigioni, a protected 2016 first-round pick (#15, Juancho Hernangomez and cash.
1st March 2016 NBA Waived by Houston Rockets.
7th March 2016 NBA Signed a guaranteed minimum salary contract for the remainder of the season with Indiana Pacers.
3rd August 2016 NBA Signed an unguaranteed one-year minimum salary contract with Sacramento Kings.
8th August 2017 China Signed a one-year contract with Shandong.

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2017 NBA Manifesto

Ty Lawson
PG, 5’11, 195lbs, 29 years old, 8 years of experience

On the court, Lawson had a good bounce-back season, not reaching the heights of his Nuggets days but having some big scoring nights, shooting a .551% true shooting percentage and putting up a near 2.5:1 ratio. He even tried hard on defence, mostly. However, off the court, the arrest warrant for suspected violation of probation by failing three alcohol tests flared its head towards the end of the season, which rather took the shine off of it. Lawson showed this season that there is still talent in the tank, so here’s hoping that’s the storyline going forward.

Player Plan: Expiring minimum salary contract. Although he had a decent bounce-back season, and although Fox and Mason could use a veteran hand at the point guard position, Collison is the better player and should be the priority.
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2010 Summer League Rosters: Minnesota Timberwolves

Jonny Flynn

This time last year, I claimed that Jonny Flynn was not much better than Ty Lawson. After one season, here's how they stack up:

Flynn: 28.9 mpg, 13.5 ppg, 4.4 apg, 2.4 rpg, 1.0 spg, 2.9 topg, 41% shooting, 38% 3PT, .511% TS, 13.0 PER

Lawson: 20.2 mpg, 8.3 ppg, 3.1 apg, 1.9 rpg, 0.7 spg, 1.3 topg, 51% shooting, 41% 3PT, .600% TS, 16.5 PER

So I had a point.

There are other factors, of course. Lawson was playing for a good team; Flynn had Pavlovic and Wilkins play over 2,400 minutes alongside him. Lawson is a year and a half older; Flynn is only 21 and had to try and run an offense that didn't really exist with a coach who wanted to install a triangle offense, but only for a while. These things are all true. But if and when they stop being true, and there's still not much separation between them, I'm claiming that. It's already far more accurate than my belief that Wayne Ellington could be the next Voshon Lenard. Whoops.
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