The Houston Rockets are working to buyout point guard Ty Lawson‘s contract according to multiple reports.
As ESPN reported last week on deadline day, Rockets indeed looking to cut ties w/Ty Lawson, which became inevitable when Utah deal collapsed
— Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) February 26, 2016
Lawson’s brief time in H-Town has been an out-and-out disaster, fraught with sub-standard play and off-the-court scandals.
The 28-year-old has put up a career-low averages of 6.0 points in 51 games so far with the Rockets.
Per Yahoo!:
After an initial unwillingness to part with Lawson post-NBA trade deadline, the Rockets could use the savings on a possible buyout to clear salary-cap space to acquire other players becoming available through buyouts, league sources said. […] Houston discussed trade-deadline deals on Lawson, but was unable to find a suitable trade. Lawson is still owed $3.2 million on his 2015-16 contract, having already been paid $9.2 million.
The Rockets are $524,000 under the hard salary cap. […] For Lawson, the experiment of co-existing with All-Star guard James Harden hasn’t worked this season. Lawson has carried himself as a professional throughout a difficult season, but simply has been unable to thrive with Harden, who is a ball-dominant scoring guard.
Lawson, 28, will likely be attractive to playoff teams searching for guard depth or those out of the postseason race that want to give Lawson the chance at a test run for the future. Lawson will need to agree to a buyout and be waived by Tuesday in order to be added to a team’s postseason roster.
