4:55pm: Lawson’s promotion to the 15-man roster is official, the Mavericks confirmed in a press release.
3:05pm: Two-way Mavericks shooting guard A.J. Lawson is being elevated to a standard roster deal, his agent, Elias Sbiet of Tandem Sports + Entertainment, informs Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN (Twitter link).
Lawson has already appeared in 28 contests with Dallas this season. The 23-year-old is averaging 3.8 points, 1.2 rebounds and 0.5 assists in 8.3 minutes per game. For the Mavericks’ NBAGL affiliate club, the Texas Legends, he’s averaging 20.7 PPG, 7.0 RPG and 1.9 APG.
Dallas has one open spot on its 15-man standard roster, so the team won’t need to make any corresponding move on that end to accommodate Lawson.
Promoting Lawson will open up a two-way slot, which the Mavs will have until Monday at the latest to fill. Greg Brown and Brandon Williams occupy the club’s other two-way roster slots.
A 6’6″ swingman, Lawson went undrafted out of South Carolina in 2021 and joined the Hawks’ NBAGL affiliate, the College Park Skyhawks, in 2021/22.
In ’22/23, he signed a pair of short-lived two-way contracts with the Timberwolves. He then inked a two-way deal with Dallas and returned to the club in the 2023 offseason.
good move by dallas. very underrated player and can definitely get rotational minutes on an nba team
Who cares? Jason Kidd refuses to give minutes in logical ways. He could score 20 his next game and then only play garbage minutes the rest of the year. I’ll bet Jaden Hardy pissed off Kidd by bringing an Android phone into his iPhone group message.
Kidd needs to go.
Kidd’s last year, unless Mavs do some really special stuff in the playoffs
Los mavs necesitan hechar a Jason Kid no levanta, si asi siguen pueden quedar fuera.