Today, the Brooklyn Nets continue their NBA regular season tour against the Indiana Pacers on the road. This game is very interesting, because Irving can finally come back and participate in this season's game.
In the starting lineup, Irving's name is among them, which is also the first time this season that the Nets have sent the Big Three intact. But the Pacers aren't going to concede that, they have more ideas, that is, to defend the home field and beat the Nets' Big Three.
Unexpectedly, in this game, the pacers' leading big brother is not a core player such as Brogdon, Sabonis Jr. or Turner, but a "temporary worker" with a short 10-day contract - Lance Stephenson.
This is the third time in Stevenson's career that he has joined the Pacers. At the beginning of his NBA career, Stephenson was a player in the Pacers, and later accepted the Charlotte Hornets' big contract to leave, but the more he played worse, one of the period also came to China to play in the CBA League, playing for the Liaoning team, and as a result, he had a problem with the core defender of the Liaoning basketball team, Guo Allen, and the two sides broke up.
Stephenson had previously joined the Pacers for the second time, but left anyway. The NBA was in a labor shortage this season, so Stephenson saw an opportunity, first to get a short 10-day contract with the Atlanta Hawks, and then returned to the Pacers after expiration.
In this game, Stephenson spent only 16 minutes in the first half of the game to shoot 9 of 11, including 4 of 5 three-pointers, contributing 24 points, 1 rebound and 4 assists, including a wave of 20 points in a single quarter, leading the team to 81-69 to play, very sharp. I have to say that Stephenson's performance is very surprising, and the performance of this former foreign aid in the liaoning basket is really unexpected.