Ty Lawson #5 of the North Carolina Tar Heels reacts after making a basket late in the second half against the Duke Blue Devils during their game at the Dean E. Smith Center on March 8, 2009 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Ty Lawson (Getty Images) more pics » Career Stats Height 6'0'' Weight 195 lbs. Per Game Averages Points - 12.7 Assists - 5.7 Rebounds - 2.8 Free Throw Percentage: 78.2% Ty Lawson is a junior point guard for the... Read Full Story
Carmelo Anthony scored 27 points, Nene added 17 and the Denver Nuggets dealt the New Jersey Nets their 14th straight loss to start the season with a 101-87 win Tuesday night. Arron Afflalo had 15 points, helping the Nuggets win their 16th straight regular-season home game, including all six this season. At 0-14, the Nets are creeping closer to the NBA record of 17 consecutive losses to start a season, which is held by Miami and the Los Angeles Clippers. New Jersey will play in Portland on... Read Full Story
Ryan Houston ran for a career-high 164 yards and Jheranie Boyd scored the clinching touchdown midway through the fourth quarter to help North Carolina beat Duke 19-6 on Saturday. Charles Brown also came up with a key interception late in the third quarter as part of a dominating defensive performance for the Tar Heels (6-3, 2-3 Atlantic Coast Conference), who shut down Thad Lewis and the prolific passing attack that had carried the Blue Devils (5-4, 3-2) to three straight victories. Duke... Read Full Story
Carmelo Anthony had a game-high 30 points and rookie Ty Lawson scored seven of his 17 points in a pivotal fourth-quarter run, lifting the Denver Nuggets to a season-opening 114-105 win over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night. Chauncey Billups finished with 25 while Kenyon Martin added 16 points and 11 rebounds. Deron Williams led Utah with 28 points and 13 assists. Andrei Kirilenko and Ronnie Brewer each contributed 16 on a night when two-time All-Star Carlos Boozer struggled, finishing 3 of... Read Full Story
Man getting back to work is hard when you know it is a short week. Good thing we have a bunch of these 10 question posts in the can so we don’t have to think.
For day 17 of 10 questions we are going to spend a little time with a blogger who submitted his answers and clearly wants to join the party that is 10 Questions.
1. Name/handle/blogs: Jason Peck ( jasonfpeck.com ), PrepChamps ( prepchamps.com )
2. Favourite sports team: North Carolina Tar Heels (college basketball), Carolina... Read Full Story
The Denver Nuggets landed the reserve point guard they coveted in Ty Lawson, who's expected to take some wear and tear off Chauncey Billups while serving as his protege. The Nuggets traded a future first-round draft pick to Minnesota for the rights to North Carolina point guard who led the Tar Heels to the national championship. Denver needed a reserve point guard to spell Billups, who tired out toward the end of the Western Conference championship after leading the Nuggets within a whisker... Read Full Story
The Denver Nuggets have traded a future first-round draft pick to Minnesota for the rights to North Carolina point guard Ty Lawson, according to a person familiar with the deal. The Nuggets, who lacked a first-round pick for the fourth straight year, landed Lawson in exchange for a future first-round pick they had acquired from Charlotte last year, according to the person, who confirmed the deal to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the league hadn't announced the trade... Read Full Story
North Carolina had to wait nearly two months last year to find out whether Ty Lawson and Wayne Ellington would stay in the NBA draft or return to school. Now, with a championship in hand, the waiting begins again for the Tar Heels. Ellington said it was too soon to say whether he will return for his senior season after being named the most outstanding player at the Final Four. Lawson said the same thing. "I don't know yet," Lawson said when asked whether it was his last college game. "I'm... Read Full Story
It seems like the Kansas Jayhawks is the only Big 12 school in recent memory who has tasted NCAA tournament success; that isn’t a slam on Big 12 basketball whatsoever…I’m just saying. But nonetheless, the Oklahoma Sooners on Sunday were looking to be join Kansas as another Big 12 school to make it to the Final Four as they took on the North Carolina Tar Heels at Memphis, TN. Perhaps the only thing that went right for the Sooners during the game was that star forward Blake Griffin got his... Read Full Story
One thought popped into the heads of many — it had to, right? After North Carolina dominated Michigan State to win the National Championship on Monday: Man, has Magic Johnson gotten big.
OK, that’s not the thought. This is: What if North Carolina had been healthy all season?
Could the men’s game had seen its first undefeated season since 1976? Given how the Tar Heels dominated the NCAA tournament, it’s not an unreasonable question. After all, they did not get healthy until later in the... Read Full Story
