Nuggets agree to trade Ty Lawson to Rockets
After spending his entire career with the Nuggets, Ty Lawson will be suiting up for a different team in the upcoming NBA season. On Sunday, Denver agreed to trade the 27-year-old point guard to the Rockets.
Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports reported the pieces involved.
Denver has agreed to a deal to send guard Ty Lawson to Houston, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) July 20, 2015
Sources: As part of deal for Ty Lawson, Houston will send Kostas, Pablo Prigioni, Joey Dorsey, Nick Johnson and a protected first to Denver.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) July 20, 2015
Houston will send a 2016 protected first-round pick to Denver, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) July 20, 2015
Denver will send a 2017 second-round pick to Houston, league sources tell Yahoo.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) July 20, 2015
Despite being a productive player on the court, Lawson had his troubles away from it. He has been arrested on DUI charges twice this year, most recently last week, and now is looking at 30 days in a rehab program that was to begin this weekend.
Earlier this year, Nuggets general manager Tim Connelly said Lawson “needed to grow up”. However, that didn’t stop teams from expressing interest in him. Always willing to make a move, Daryl Morey once again pulled the trigger and landed a quality piece to a team that advanced to this year’s Western Conference Finals.
