Shane Lawal
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Born | Abeokuta, Nigeria | October 8, 1986||||||||||||||
Nationality | Nigerian / American | ||||||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) | ||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 242 lb (110 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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High school | Southfield (Southfield, Michigan) | ||||||||||||||
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NBA draft | 2009: undrafted | ||||||||||||||
Playing career | 2009–2019 | ||||||||||||||
Position | Center | ||||||||||||||
Number | 9 | ||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||
2009–2010 | Al Arabi Doha | ||||||||||||||
2010–2011 | Guadalajara | ||||||||||||||
2011 | Al-Ahli Benghazi | ||||||||||||||
2011–2012 | Clavijo | ||||||||||||||
2012–2013 | Tezenis Verona | ||||||||||||||
2013–2014 | Astana | ||||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Dinamo Sassari | ||||||||||||||
2015–2017 | FC Barcelona Lassa | ||||||||||||||
2017–2018 | Sidigas Avellino | ||||||||||||||
2019 | Homenetmen | ||||||||||||||
Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||||
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Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |||||||||||||||
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Olaseni Abdul-Jelili "Shane" Lawal (born October 8, 1986) is a retired Nigerian-American professional basketball player. He played the center position.
College career
[edit]Lawal played college basketball for three years at Oakland University, with the Oakland Golden Grizzlies, before moving to Wayne State University, where he played with the Wayne State Warriors during the 2008–09 season.[1]
Professional career
[edit]Lawal went undrafted at the 2009 NBA draft. For the 2009–10 season, he signed with Al Arabi Doha of the Qatari Basketball League.
For the 2010–11 season, he moved to Spain and signed with CB Guadalajara of the LEB Plata. In April 2011, he moved to the Libyan League club Al-Ahli Benghazi for the rest of the season.
In July 2011, he signed with CB Clavijo of the LEB Oro.[2]
On August 5, 2012, he signed with Tezenis Verona of the Italian Legadue Basket.[3] He led the league in rebounding (13.6 rpg) and in blocking shots (1.8 bpg) during the 2012-13 campaign.[4]
On July 29, 2013, Lawal signed a one-year deal with BC Astana of Kazakhstan.[5] With Astana, he won the Kazakh League and Cup in the 2013–14 season.
On July 31, 2014, Lawal signed a one-year deal with the Italian club Dinamo Sassari.[6] With the Italians, he won the season's League, Cup and Supercup. In Euroleague play, Lawal averaged 9 points and 7,3 rebounds in ten games for Sassari that season.[4]
Lawal has also competed for Overseas Elite in The Basketball Tournament. He was a center on the 2015 team that won TBT's $1 million prize.[7]
On July 20, 2015, Lawal signed a two-year deal with the Spanish club FC Barcelona Lassa.[8] On May 12, 2017, he parted ways with Barcelona.[9]
On August 26, 2017, Lawal signed with Italian club Sidigas Avellino.[10] His last stop in professional basketball was Homenetmen Beirut in 2019.[11]
National team
[edit]Lawal was Nigeria's top performer at the AfroBasket 2015 , averaging 19.6 efficiency, and 9.0 rebounds per game, as the West Africans clinched their first-ever continental championship in Tunisia.
Coaching career
[edit]Before moving to Beirut for his last stint as a professional basketball player in February 2019, he had served as a volunteer assistant coach at John Glenn High School in Westland, Michigan.[12] In 2019, he was appointed as head coach of the girls' basketball team at Renaissance High School in Detroit.[13]
Career statistics
[edit]GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | PIR | Performance Index Rating |
Bold | Career high |
EuroLeague
[edit]Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG | PIR |
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2014–15 | Sassari | 10 | 8 | 23.0 | .617 | .000 | .471 | 7.3 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 9.0 | 15.0 |
2015–16 | Barcelona | 17 | 0 | 14.9 | .673 | .000 | .594 | 4.1 | .6 | .5 | .7 | 5.2 | 7.7 |
Career | 27 | 8 | 17.9 | .643 | .000 | .530 | 5.3 | .9 | .9 | 1.0 | 6.6 | 10.4 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Shane Lawal - 2008-09 Men's Basketball". Wsuathletics.com. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
- ^ "El Clavijo ficha por una temporada al pívot nigeriano Shane Lawal". Elcorreo.com (in Spanish). July 21, 2011. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
- ^ Carchia, Emiliano (August 5, 2012). "Tezenis Verona officially signs Shane Lawal". Sportando.com. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
- ^ a b "LAWAL, SHANE - Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL". www.euroleague.net. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
- ^ "Olaseni Lawal inks with BC Astana". Court-side.com. July 29, 2013. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
- ^ "Dinamo Sassari gains rim-protecter in Lawal". Euroleague.net. July 31, 2014. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
- ^ "Individual payouts for Overseas Elite". www.thetournament.com. Retrieved 2017-05-18.
- ^ "Shane Lawal, primer refuerzo para el FC Barcelona Lassa". ACB.com (in Spanish). July 20, 2015.
- ^ "Acord per a la rescissió del contracte de Shane Lawal". fcbarcelona.cat (in Spanish). May 12, 2017. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
- ^ "Scandone Avellino signs Shane Lawal". Sportando.com. August 27, 2017. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
- ^ "Olaseni Lawal". asia-basket.com. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
- ^ "At 6-foot-10, coach for state runner-up Detroit Renaissance has his own view of the game". mlive. 2021-04-12. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
- ^ "Former European hoops pro Shane Lawal has Renaissance Phoenix girls on the rise again | State Champs! Sports Network". www.statechampsnetwork.com. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
External links
[edit]- Shane Lawal at acb.com (in Spanish)
- Shane Lawal at fiba.com
- Shane Lawal at euroleague.net
- Shane Lawal at legabasket.it (in Italian)
- Shane Lawal at realgm.com
- 1986 births
- Living people
- American expatriate basketball people in Italy
- American expatriate basketball people in Kazakhstan
- American expatriate basketball people in Qatar
- American expatriate basketball people in Spain
- American people of Yoruba descent
- American men's basketball players
- Basketball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- BC Astana players
- Centers (basketball)
- Dinamo Sassari players
- FC Barcelona Bàsquet players
- Lega Basket Serie A players
- Liga ACB players
- Nigerian emigrants to the United States
- Nigerian expatriate basketball people in Italy
- Nigerian expatriate basketball people in Spain
- Nigerian men's basketball players
- Oakland Golden Grizzlies men's basketball players
- Olympic basketball players for Nigeria
- Power forwards
- Scaligera Basket Verona players
- Sportspeople from Abeokuta
- Wayne State Warriors men's basketball players
- Yoruba sportspeople
- Al Ahly Benghazi basketball players
- 21st-century American sportsmen