question: Where was the draft where Tywon Ronell Lawson was picked by the Minnesota Timberwolves held?
answer: the WaMu Theatre
context: Title: 2015–16 Minnesota Timberwolves season
  Passage: The 2015–16 Minnesota Timberwolves season was the 27th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA).  Before the season, the Timberwolves announced that head coach and team president Flip Saunders will not coach the team this season as he continued his battle with cancer.  Sam Mitchell was named interim head coach.  On October 25, 2015, Saunders died and the Wolves announced that Mitchell would be the interim coach for the entire season.  Around the start of the season, the Timberwolves would be the first team in NBA history to hold four players that were around 20 or younger between Andrew Wiggins, Zach LaVine, Karl-Anthony Towns, and Tyus Jones to start out a season.  It would also mark the final season under Kevin Garnett's time in the NBA and his return with the Timberwolves.
  Title: 2008 NBA draft
  Passage: The 2008 NBA Draft was held on June 26, 2008 at the Washington Mutual Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York.  In this draft, National Basketball Association (NBA) teams took turns selecting amateur college basketball players and other first-time eligible players, including international players from non-North American professional leagues.  According to the NBA, 44 players, 39 collegiate players and five international players, filed as early-entry candidates for the 2008 NBA Draft.  These numbers do not include players who are automatically eligible for the draft.  The Chicago Bulls, who had a 1.7 percent probability of obtaining the first selection, won the NBA Draft Lottery on May 22.  The Bulls' winning of the lottery was the second-largest upset in NBA Draft Lottery history behind the Orlando Magic, who won it in 1993 with just a 1.5% chance.  The Miami Heat and the Minnesota Timberwolves obtained the second and third picks respectively.
  Title: 2009 NBA draft
  Passage: The 2009 NBA draft was held on June 25, 2009, at the WaMu Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City.  In this draft, the National Basketball Association (NBA) teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players.
  Title: 2002 NBA draft
  Passage: The 2002 NBA draft was held on June 26, 2002, at The Theater at Madison Square Garden.  In this draft, National Basketball Association (NBA) teams took turns selecting 57 amateur college basketball players and other first-time eligible players, such as players from non-North American leagues.  The draft was broadcast on TNT at 7:30 PM (EDT).  The NBA announced that about 42 college and high school players, and five international players, had filed as early-entry candidates for the draft.  The Chicago Bulls and the Golden State Warriors both had a 22.5 percent probability of acquiring the first overall pick, but the Houston Rockets, with an 8.9 percent probability, won the NBA draft lottery on May 19.  The Bulls and Warriors were second and third, respectively.  As punishment for salary-cap violations during the 2000–01 season, the Minnesota Timberwolves forfeited their first-round draft pick.
  Title: Minnesota Timberwolves all-time roster
  Passage: The Minnesota Timberwolves are a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  They are a member of the Northwest Division of the NBA's Western Conference.  In order to persuade the NBA to give Minnesota a team, Marv Wolfenson and Harvey Ratner, the future owners of the organization, conducted a "name the team" contest and eventually selected two finalists, the "Timberwolves" and the "Polars", in December 1986.  The team then asked the 842 city councils in Minnesota to select the winner, as the "Timberwolves" prevailed.  Minnesota was given a team, and took part in the 1989 NBA Expansion Draft with the Orlando Magic.  The Timberwolves have since made eight playoff appearances, advancing to the Western Conference finals once during the 2003–04 NBA season, where they lost to the Los Angeles Lakers.  Since the franchise's inception, 198 players have made an appearance in a competitive game for the team.
  Title: Ty Lawson
  Passage: Tywon Ronell Lawson (born November 3, 1987) is an American professional basketball player for the Shandong Golden Stars of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).  Lawson played college basketball for North Carolina where he won a national championship his junior year.  He was drafted with the 18th overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves and was immediately traded to the Denver Nuggets.
  Title: Joe Wylie
  Passage: Joseph Jay Wylie, Sr. (born February 10, 1968), is an American retired professional basketball player.  Born in Washington, D.C., he is listed at 6'9" and weighed 220 lbs.  Wylie played collegiate ball with the University of Miami Hurricanes from 1988 to 1991), where he earned the names, "Wylie's World", and "Jumping Joe Wylie", because of his ability to leap over his opponents.  Wylie entered the 1991 NBA Draft and was picked 38th in the second round by the Los Angeles Clippers.  On July 4, 1991, almost a week after the draft, the Clippers traded him to the New York Knicks for a 1993 second round pick.  The Knicks were enthusiastic of getting such a player of his calibre; In 1992, Wylie was invited to the Minnesota Timberwolves training camp but he was eventually cut from the roster during the preseason.  In 1993 Wylie played in 6 preseason games with the Detroit Pistons and was the last cut before contracts became guaranteed.  He eventually played his professional basketball career mostly overseas in Italy, Spain, France, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Turkey, Argentina, Israel, Portugal, the Philippines, Germany, Russia, the Dominican Republic and Hungary.  He also played in CBA with the Columbus Horizon during the 1991–92 season.  He retired in 2009.  Wylie has a son, Joseph Micheal Wylie, Jr., who played collegiate football at his alma mater but later transferred to Tennessee State University.
  Title: Karl-Anthony Towns
  Passage: Karl-Anthony Towns Jr. (born November 15, 1995) is a Dominican-American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA).  He played college basketball for the University of Kentucky.  Towns was named to the Dominican Republic national basketball team Olympic squad as a 16-year-old, although the Dominican Republic ultimately did not qualify for the 2012 Olympics.  He was selected with the first overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves, and went on to be named NBA Rookie of the Year for the 2015–16 season.
  Title: Ricky Rubio
  Passage: Ricard Rubio i Vives (born October 21, 1990) is a Spanish professional basketball player for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA).  Rubio became the youngest player ever to play in the Spanish ACB League on October 15, 2005, at age 14.  He made his EuroLeague debut on October 24, 2006, at age 16, becoming the first player born in the 1990s to play in a EuroLeague game.  He is the fifth-youngest player to make their debut in the EuroLeague.  On June 25, 2009, he was drafted with the fifth pick in the first round of the 2009 NBA draft by the Timberwolves, making him the first player born in the 1990s to be drafted by the NBA.  The Timberwolves had an agreement in principle with his former Spanish team, DKV Joventut, to buy out his contract, but Rubio backed out of the deal.  On August 31, 2009, Joventut traded the rights to Rubio to FC Barcelona, and Rubio signed a six-year contract with FC Barcelona the following day.  In 2011, Rubio joined the Minnesota Timberwolves, and spent six seasons in Minnesota before being traded to the Jazz in June 2017.
  Title: 1989 NBA Expansion Draft
  Passage: The 1989 NBA Expansion Draft was the ninth expansion draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA).  The draft was held on June 15, 1989, so that the newly founded Minnesota Timberwolves and Orlando Magic could acquire players for the upcoming 1989–90 season.  Minnesota and Orlando had been awarded the expansion teams on April 22, 1987.  In an NBA expansion draft, new NBA teams are allowed to acquire players from the previously established teams in the league.  Not all players on a given team are available during an expansion draft, since each team can protect a certain number of players from being selected.  In this draft, each of the twenty-three other NBA teams had protected eight players from their roster and the Timberwolves and the Magic selected eleven and twelve unprotected players respectively, one from each team.  Last year's expansion teams, the Charlotte Hornets and the Miami Heat, were not involved in the expansion draft and did not lose any player.  Prior to the draft, the league conducted a coin flip between the Timberwolves and the Magic to decide their draft order in this expansion draft and in the 1989 NBA draft.  The Magic won the coin flip and chose to have the first selection and the right to select twelve players in this expansion draft, thus allowing the Timberwolves to receive the higher pick in the 1989 Draft.
citations: 2009 NBA draft Ty Lawson