UNC Basketball: Ty Lawson is on the move yet again

Former UNC basketball standout Ty Lawson is on the move yet again.

It’s that time of the month again already, as former North Carolina Tar Heels point guard and world traveler Ty Lawson is back on the move.

This time, Lawson is set to join US Monastir, a Tunisian professional basketball organization based in Monastir that competes in the newly-formed Basketball Africa League. US Monastir was the league’s 2021 runner-up, and now adds a piece in Lawson that they believe could help them reach championship status in 2022. They also compete in the Championnat National A — the highest level of basketball in Tunisia where they’ve won six national championships.

A deal between Lawson and the North African-based ball club has already been agreed upon, as the team announced the signing on their official Instagram account on Tuesday afternoon. Now, Lawson, who spent a total of eight seasons with the Denver Nuggets, Houston Rockets, Indiana Pacers and Sacramento Kings, is about to become the first former NBA player to compete in the Basketball Africa League.

A couple of weeks ago, we believed that Puerto Rico would be Lawson’s new home for the foreseeable future, but that apparently worked out about as well as his most recent stint in Greece. His time in Puerto Rico lasted about as long as it would have taken for the ink to dry on the deal that we thought the two parties struck in late October. And Lawson’s time with Kolossos Rodou B.C. in Greece was cut short when he and the organization parted ways because they “didn’t fit well.”

That all followed a successful-turned-tumultuous stint in China where he once averaged 27.3 points, 8.7 assists and 5.5 rebounds per game before an eventual ban from the Chinese Basketball Association altogether. So, needless to say, things since Lawson’s days with the Denver Nuggets — when he was one of the league’s most promising young guards — simply haven’t worked out all that well.

Here’s hoping that he can stick with his new team a little bit longer than his last half-dozen.

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