Shane Lawal

Template:Infobox basketball biography Olaseni Abdul-Jelili "Shane" Lawal (born October 8, 1986) is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player for FC Barcelona Lassa. He plays the center position.

College career

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Professional career

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

On August 5, 2012, he signed with Tezenis Verona of the Italian Legadue Basket.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

On July 29, 2013, Lawal signed a one-year deal with BC Astana of Kazakhstan.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> With the Italians, he won the season's League, Cup and Supercup.

On July 20, 2015, Lawal signed a two-year deal with the Spanish club FC Barcelona Lassa.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

National team

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.

Career statistics

EuroLeague

Template:Euroleague player statistics start |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2014–15 | style="text-align:left;"| Sassari | 10 || 8 || 23.0 || .617 || .000 || .471 || 7.3 || 1.4 || 1.5 || 1.5 || 9.0 || 15.0 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2015–16 | style="text-align:left;"| Barcelona | 17 || 0 || 14.9 || .673 || .000 || .594 || 4.1 || .6 || .5 || .7 || 5.2 || 7.7 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:left;"| Career | style="text-align:left;"| | 27 || 8 || 17.9 || .643 || .000 || .530 || 5.3 || .9 || .9 || 1.0 || 6.6 || 10.4 Template:S-end

Amateur basketball

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. He was also a part of the Overseas Elite team that won the 2016 TBT championship, and a $2 million prize. <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

External links

• Shane Lawal at acb.com Template:Es icon
• Shane Lawal at fiba.com
• Shane Lawal at euroleague.net
• Shane Lawal at legabasket.it Template:It icon
• Shane Lawal at realgm.com