Ty Lawson (born November 3, 1987 in Clinton, Maryland) is an American professional basketball player. He plays for the Houston Rockets in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has also played for the Denver Nuggets from 2009 until 2015. He went to school at the University of North Carolina.
On July 20, 2015, the Nuggets traded him along with a second round pick in the 2017 NBA draft to the Houston Rockets in exchange for Joey Dorsey, Nick Johnson, Kostas Papanikolaou, Pablo Prigioni, a first round pick in the 2016 NBA draft, and cash.