Lance Stephenson is of the thought that he’d still be with the Charlotte Hornets if they recognized his star power.
Stephenson, who was traded to the Clippers this summer just months after signing a three-year, $27 million deal with Charlotte, sort of ripped the Hornets in an interview with Dan Woike of the Orange County Register on Sunday.
Stephenson sounds like a guy who signed with Charlotte with the idea that he’d be treated like a superstar. That was not the case and the Clippers wing sounded off on that.
“I don’t feel that,” Stephenson said. “I was just sitting in the corner. That’s not trying to be a star. A star normally gets the ball.”
Stephenson talks like the Hornets wanted something other than multi-faced stat stuffer he’d become.
“I think the way they wanted me to be a star isn’t the way my game is,” he said.
Those struggles seem to be continuing in L.A. as Stephenson has only made just 2 of 11 shots running with the second unit.