Former second-round draft choose has one remorse from the 2014-15 NBA season.
Enjoying within the NBA is a dream come true for many basketball gamers on this planet. However there are some things that may make the expertise even higher.
One in every of them is being near the consensus GOAT, Michael Jordan. Whereas MJ retired for the ultimate time in 2003, gamers had a 13-year window to nonetheless be near him.
How? Properly, Jordan was the bulk proprietor of the Charlotte Hornets from 2010 to 2023. Former NBA participant Lance Stephenson had that chance however he squandered it terribly.
Trying again at Stephenson’s profession, he had a one-year stint with the Hornets in the course of the 2014-15 NBA season which primarily made him a journeyman within the league.
Stephenson not too long ago spoke about his one-year stint in Charlotte and the way he destroyed his relationship with Jordan.
“I received paid and I received comfy. That starvation… sort of dumped down just a little bit. That’s the one 12 months I remorse,” Stephenson stated on the 7 PM in Brooklyn podcast.
He added: “I really feel like I didn’t use all of the instruments that I had round me at that second to be the very best participant I could possibly be. I had Michael Jordan proper there, and I didn’t go to him.”
For context, Stephenson’s numbers dropped from 13.8 factors, 5.9 rebounds, and seven.2 assists per recreation within the 2013-14 season to eight.2 factors, 4.5 rebounds, and three.9 assists per recreation within the 2014-15 season.
After a horrible stint with the Hornets, Stephenson then went on to play for seven totally different NBA groups within the subsequent 5 seasons. That excludes his transient two-year exit from the NBA.
Talking of his journey submit the Hornets, Stephenson additionally performed for the Los Angeles Lakers in the course of the 2018-19 NBA season.
It was a terrific second as Stephenson shared the courtroom along with his longtime rival, LeBron James, albeit it didn’t find yourself in a fairy story ending as a result of Lakers lacking the playoffs.
Whereas Stephenson hasn’t retired from the league, he hasn’t been within the NBA for the reason that 2021-22 season.
