Veteran NBA point guard Ty Lawson appears set to return to the Chinese Basketball Association for the 2019/20 season, according to a pair of reports from Emiliano Carchia of Sportando. After initially writing that Lawson was close to signing with the Fujian Sturgeons, Carchia said in a follow-up tweet that it’s a done deal.
Lawson, who was said to be drawing interest from the Xinjiang Flying Tigers earlier this month, has spent most of the last two seasons with China’s Shandong Golden Stars. In 2018/19, the 31-year-old averaged 26.5 PPG and 8.7 APG in 24 games with Shandong.
An NBA first-round pick in 2009, Lawson spent eight seasons in the league and enjoyed a productive run with the Nuggets, but hasn’t appeared in an NBA regular season game since the 2016/17 season.
While he did sign with the Wizards on the last day of the 2017/18 campaign and appeared in five playoff games for the club that spring after returning from China, he hasn’t received an NBA contract since then. It’s possible that a successful run with Fujian will put him on NBA teams’ radars again this spring.
I wish he was back in the nba
Agreed. Really hope he got the help he needed.
Lawson was one of THREE PG taken in the FIRST ROUND of the 2009 NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves with their FOUR first round picks.
At least Lawson has a job as a pro athelete.
Jonny Flynn is, I believe, a Greeter at WalMart.
Hard to believe that David K—-A—-H—-N
isn’t a GM for some team in the NBA !!