Ty Lawson was an unexcused no-show for the Denver Nuggets' first practice coming out of the All-Star break.

Lawson was coming from Las Vegas, where the day before he posted a picture of himself on Facebook. 

"We had a week off or nine days between games, and you expect everybody to be here," Brian Shaw said. "It disrupts the planning of everything, in terms of you count on somebody in practice. But he's not here so we had to go without him."

Lawson failing to show is the latest in a string of incidents that have upset management in the past two years. He had a domestic incident in the summer of 2013, a case that was eventually dropped. He missed a team breakfast meeting late last season and was held out of the starting lineup. In January he was arrested on suspicion of DUI.