This performance by Lance Stephenson was just about the most Lance Stephenson-y thing ever. Comes into the game with much fanfare, then doesn’t do anything until the fourth quarter, where he goes bananas on the Raptors with bad (for him) jumpers and swaggy crossovers and taunting. Then, with 3 seconds left, violates the NBA’s “honor code” by making a layup, starting a half-brawl at midcourt which he walks calmly away from while P.J. Tucker screams at him. Hell yeah! That was practically Malice at that Palace part deux.
If this Stephenson experiment by the Pacers doesn’t end up with them meeting the Cavaliers in the playoffs and him blowing in LeBron’s ear again, I’m gonna consider this entire NBA season a failure.