Lance Is Already Gone Mentally...

[Proudiddy]

He just gave this wack ass interview with the NY Daily News... His mind is already elsewhere. I've suspected the reason for his horrible shooting and really horrible decision making this season may have been because he didn't work out this offseason.

“I’m just trying to get my mind off of basketball, go to my neighborhood and get my hunger back,” Stephenson told the Daily News at an event Saturday in Brooklyn to pay tribute to Brooklyn Streetball, sponsored by And1 and Slam Magazine. “With me, it’s all mental. I feel like once I get mentally into it, coming back to get that hunger.

“Cause sometimes you lose your hunger. You’ve been doing it for so long you forget all the hard work that got you here. So I’m just getting back on that, getting focused.”

...

“It would be a blessing (to play in Brooklyn),” Stephenson said. “But right now, Charlotte, that’s what I’m doing right now.”

There are concerns that Stephenson — who is known as a volatile personality — wouldn’t be able to deal with the distractions of playing in his hometown. He shrugged at the idea Saturday. “Just play ball,” he said. “That’s all I have to do.”

http://m.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/nets/lance-stephenson-blessing-play-brooklyn-article-1.2115907

[Omega Atrocity]

I'm ready for him to be gone physically too.

[Jase]

I'm not sure when he actually arrived mentally, but I must have missed it.

[PantherBrew]

I wish we could buy him out.

[Biggdaddi1022]

Should have never signed Lance if they wasn't going to play him.... they never gave him a fair shot..... you ever notice how we build a lead with Lance in the game then they take him out and we lose it.... but the coach never puts him back in? lol yall kill me Lance is good but it's he coaching that is killing his production.

[PantherBrew]

He was starting from day one. Until he was put into the second unit.

Lance has been a disaster and it has nothing to do with Clifford.

Thank God that we didn't guarantee anything past next season.

[Omega Atrocity]

I wish we could buy him out.

We could. You don't have to be an expiring to be bought out. The bucks are in talks with Sanders currently, and he's 3 years left I believe.

[Proudiddy]

Yeah he has to be moved. In one article, he basically says he isn't hungry anymore, has lost his drive for playing basketball, says he needs to get his mind off of basketball, then says he just needs to play ball, all while saying he is thinking about playing for Brooklyn. Smh...

[PantherBrew]

We could. You don't have to be an expiring to be bought out. The bucks are in talks with Sanders currently, and he's 3 years left I believe.

I can not believe he has become untradeable already. His contract was supposed to be an asset.

[Cary Kollins]

Prototypical case of a guy that could be a perrineal all-star but just doesn't have the will or drive to make it happen.

It was a good move to bring him here and see what he could do, but he's clearly never going to be anything more than what he is now.

[Eazy-E]

Nothing but fluff

[TheRed]

Can't really act surprised about where he is right now considering all the trade rumors that have been swirling for months.

 

Much of this whole fiasco is Lance's fault, but not all of it.

[JJman Returns]

fug him. I got so excited when we got him but had no idea he was just a dumb, lazy, douchebag. I will now be more excited when he's gone.

[setzer2030]

I love how the only team with any interest at all is Brooklyn, and they only "kinda, sorta, not really, I'll trade you an apple" want him.