{"id":602155,"date":"2026-04-12T13:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602155\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:49:17","slug":"raptors-convert-a-j-lawson-to-standard-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602155\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors convert A.J. Lawson to standard contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/a-j-lawson\/6bc71e02-9a03-40db-aed4-332ab5193336\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"6bc71e02-9a03-40db-aed4-332ab5193336\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">A.J. Lawson<\/a>&#8216;s strong play this season has earned him a full-time deal with his hometown team. <\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"toronto-raptors\" data-league=\"nba\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/toronto-raptors\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> converted Lawson to a standard NBA contract on Saturday, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Brampton, Ont., native is in his second season with the Raptors. <\/p>\n<p>Lawson, 25, has appeared in 23 games for Toronto this season and is averaging four points and 1.9 rebounds per contest. <\/p>\n<p>The two-way guard spent time with the Dallas Mavericks and Minnesota Timberwolves before joining the Raptors organization ahead of the 2024-25 season. <\/p>\n<p>Lawson becomes a permanent member of the Raptors with just one game remaining in the regular season. <\/p>\n<p>The Raptors need a win over the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday to guarantee they won&#8217;t end up in the NBA&#8217;s Play-In Tournament. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A.J. Lawson&#8216;s strong play this season has earned him a full-time deal with his hometown team. The Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-602155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}