Houston Rockets: Which Players Will Get Traded?
By Duncan Smith
Ty Lawson
People thought Ty Lawson had a lot of baggage when he arrived in Houston this past July following multiple DUIs in Denver and Los Angeles. While he’s been on his best behavior in Houston, he’s been an unmitigated disaster.
He was perhaps overly generous in his desire to come to Houston when the Denver Nuggets were trying to move him in the sumer, as he unguaranteed next year’s $13 million salary, and it appears at the moment that is sure to lose the gamble he took on himself.
His season has been an incredible disappointment, and he has played his value straight into the ground to the point where teams who are interested in Lawson are probably more likely to wait in the wings and see if the Rockets will just release him so they can pick him up for nothing.
Shaun Livingston cooks Ty Lawson, gets a beautiful up & under layup!
— Def Pen Hoops (@DefPenHoops) February 10, 2016
Stephen Curry & #Warriors bench loves it! pic.twitter.com/jrG9kR1IcU
Due to the unguaranteed 2016-17 salary, he effectively has an expiring contract, enabling whoever has his rights at the end of the year to simply cut him at no further cost to themselves. To make matters worse, an expiring contract has never meant less than it will in this coming offseason, when the salary cap is set to explode by $20 million.
Lawson is very unlikely to get moved unless general manager Daryl Morey is able to work actual witchcraft on some unwitting GM, which isn’t something you can rule out with Morey.
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