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2016 NBA Trade Deadline: 10 Players Teams Should Absolutely Avoid

By Gerald Bourguet

Nov 1, 2015; Miami, FL, USA; Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside (21) during the second half against the Houston Rockets at American Airlines Arena. The Heat won 109-89. Mandatory Credit: Steve Mitchell-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 1, 2015; Miami, FL, USA; Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside (21) during the second half against the Houston Rockets at American Airlines Arena. The Heat won 109-89. Mandatory Credit: Steve Mitchell-USA TODAY Sports /
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Feb 4, 2016; Phoenix, AZ, USA; Houston Rockets guard Ty Lawson (3) dribbles the ball up the court against the Phoenix Suns at Talking Stick Resort Arena. The Rockets won 111 – 105. Mandatory Credit: Jennifer Stewart-USA TODAY Sports /

8. Ty Lawson

The Houston Rockets made the Western Conference Finals last year. Then the Houston Rockets added Ty Lawson over the summer. Now the Houston Rockets are sitting at ninth in the conference standings with a dismal 27-28 record. Sure, a lot of other stuff happened in the middle, but it doesn’t take a damn mathematician to figure out what went wrong with this equation.

Dwight Howard is the big name that keeps popping up, but Houston would also really benefit from hoodwinking some other team into thinking that Lawson’s fully non-guaranteed contract for next season makes him a risk worth taking.

It’s not that Lawson has been arrested for another DUI or that he’s a toxic personality in the locker room, but his 6.3 points and 3.6 assists per game on .392/.337/.705 shooting splits pretty clearly indicate that he doesn’t have a long-term future in Houston.

Lawson’s fit with the Utah Jazz is questionable at best, since, you know, they actually play defense. But no matter which team the Rockets try to pawn Lawson off on as a “veteran presence,” that team’s response should be to hang up, block and report as spam.

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