Pacers' Rookie Lance Stephenson Arrested For Assaulting Girlfriend
by Tom Lewis on Aug 15, 2010 9:16 PM EDT
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PrintSo much for the feel-good month of August for the Indiana Pacers. Second-round draft pick, Lance Stephenson was arrested in the early morning hours of Sunday morning after allegedly assaulting his girlfriend which included shoving her down a flight of stairs.
Stephenson, 19, a legendary player at Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School, roughed up Jasmine Williams, 21, in the stairwell of her Brooklyn apartment building about 5 a.m., according to police.
The 6-foot-5 rookie point guard's blows sent Williams tumbling head-first down 10 steps, requiring her to be treated at a hospital for injuries to her head and neck, cops said.
This is exactly the type of incident which made Stephenson a draft-night risk and saw him tumble down to the Pacers at the 40th pick in the second round despite the first-round talent he's shown on the court.
My thoughts and prayers are with Ms. Williams for a full and speedy recovery. As for Stephenson, vast experience tells us, we'll have to see how this situation plays out and how he reacts from this moment forward.
Also, the Pacers signed Stephenson to a two-year, guaranteed contract so this won't be a cut and run situation. Both Stephenson and the Pacers will have to deal with this mess and we'll all be watching.
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We are a cursed franchise....
I am more than willing to sacrifice a chicken to lift it. Just lemme know, and I will go get two buckets of KFC.
I've never seen a supernova blow up, but if it's anything like my old Chevy Nova, it'll light up the night sky. - Fry
by Marked Hoosier on Aug 15, 2010 9:19 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Frick!
We need a dorm room at Conseco where these guys stay for 12 months a year until their rookie contract runs out. What a moron. This team just can’t find a hot streak and stay with it. Always some idiot (administration or players) who wants to screw it all up.
Ugh
Talk about throwing a wrench in the works. Summer League, Granger and Team USA, and the Collison trade. We were definitely due for a speed bump. I will withhold judgement until the facts come out but I’m going to be the ever-Pacer-optist. Previous years would bear out the worst. I’m going to believe that this was just a mistake (please let this be a miscommunication)….
Years
Think about it…. he could have a suspension before his first game…. this is not good. Thinking this is going to be the only incident is kind of ignorant.
New thought! The NBA should have a policy of being able to break contracts involving player and misdemeanors or felonys
Coming from someone who deals with 18 and 19-year-olds on a daily basis...
The girls can be pretty damn annoying and can provoke. The boys can be pretty damn handsy. It didn’t have to come to this, but it happens all the time. Luck would have it this time, it happened to a promising young guy on the Pacers. Go figure. And…we’re back!
"You're hitting the wrong person. Don't you know you're hitting Ron Artest?"
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I don't really see a way to provoke your way down a flight of stairs.
I've never seen a supernova blow up, but if it's anything like my old Chevy Nova, it'll light up the night sky. - Fry
by Marked Hoosier on Aug 15, 2010 10:05 PM EDT up reply actions
…unless she refused to take her birth control
"I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok." ~Shaq
by Max_in_Missouri on Aug 16, 2010 1:48 AM EDT up reply actions
She probably slapped him, he probably slapped her
It doesn’t matter who slapped who first. I’m just saying, people his age often have a hard time with self-control, and I’m guessing there wasn’t much positive modeling going on for either of them growing up. Putting hype in a kid like that’s head, plus a $1.5 million paycheck in his bank account…with red flags he had, it was only a matter of time, especially with the bad luck this team has had with character issues in the recent past.
"You're hitting the wrong person. Don't you know you're hitting Ron Artest?"
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It's probably a big misunderstanding...
dammit Lance. On the bright side, he appears to be only one idiot and he hasn’t shot up a strip joint yet :)
This is unfortunate
But when you compare Lance with Shawne Williams, there’s one big difference — Lance can play, I think. While he hasn’t ever played in a real NBA game, I still have faith that he will be able to get a hold of himself, on the court at least.
Assuming everyting is 100% true
If we didn’t have 2 years stuck into him already, I would say cut his ass right now.
19 and already doing this shit.
Ugh… just ugh.
Agreed.
This is ridiculous. I always try to be mindful when passing judgment to those who were raised in poverty and in rough surroundings, but this goes against what it means to be a good, decent individual. Hitting a woman, no f***ing excuse.
Maybe he’ll go to jail and it will void his contract.
Guaranteed 2 years or not
If the charges prove to be true, and I’m willing to wait for more info, cut him on the spot
٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ The sky is falling!
Already
After all of the off court turmoil the Pacers have experienced they pick a guy like Lance. After watching the summer league games I was hopeful that he was going to be a great player, and that maybe he learned from the past. When he said he looked up to Jamaal Tinsley I knew it was a matter of time. I would like to see the Pacers move this guy if they can. We have plenty of wing players anyway. He is going to be a cancer.
These things happen, heres some rules Lance needs to learn to live by tho with this sort of thing
1) Youre an NBA Player. The Girls come to you. You don’t need to go see them at some apartment in Brooklyn. If shes not willing to come see you then move on.
2) Nothing good ever happens at 5 AM. Think about it. How many of your lives accomplishments occurred at 5?
3) Get a fall guy. Earlier today Udanis Haslem got pulled over and they found some pot. Did Haslem have the pot on him? Of course he didn’t, his no name friend did. You cant tell me that wasnt part of a plan. Have one of the boys take the hit for it.
4) Have a great first year at Indiana so none of us remembers this in a few months.
PS. Theres so many questions unanswered here my head hurts. What were they arguing about. Was alcohol involved? How much alcohol was involved? Was it an accident where she more or less fell down the steps but her girlfriends through a big hissy saying she was thrown? Is Lance sorry for this? Well anyway, just follow the 4 above rules and everything is cream cheese. Go Pacers!
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by drsuessrunner07 on Aug 15, 2010 10:54 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
if only every NBA player lived by these rules...
…or even a small minority of them, the league would be much better off.
"You're hitting the wrong person. Don't you know you're hitting Ron Artest?"
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well...
Certainly more facts need to be presented before we make any judgments; However, if the reports are true then really all the Pacers can do is issue their own discipline as needed, and then hope he takes responsibility for his actions personally and professionally.
From a fan’s perspective, I was one of those with dreams of the next Tyreke Evans playing for the Pacers in the form Born Ready. But if this is true, then I don’t really care if he sniffs the court the next couple of seasons (his guaranteed seasons). After what we experienced with rejects like Ron Ron, S-Jax, Tinsley, Shawne, David Harrison, Marquis, etc., we don’t deserve anymore creeps playing at the Fieldhouse. One slight positive is that Lance is only guaranteed $700,000 and $800,000 the next two seasons. If worse comes to worst, at least the Pacers won’t be facing salary-cap purgatory again if they decide to cut him off.
This sure makes the acquisition of Collison even more pivotal, no?
How about...
You people stop making a big deal out of stuff that happen in a everyday society!!! Get of a guys back! Just waiting for something to happen to run yall big cunt!!!! Like shit don’t happen.
Language like this is allowed here?
Is the mindset “our players don’t do it, so I guess we won’t conduct ourselves with dignity” either?
Also, strong, founded allegations of domestic abuse are made (against a man with a track record, it should be noted) and you write that off as “sh!t happens”?
"I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok." ~Shaq
by Max_in_Missouri on Sep 13, 2010 1:32 PM EDT up reply actions
I have question...
Were the cops white? I mean everyone knows they just hate it when a black man has more money than them, all right enough joking. I’m not throwing him under no bus. We don’t know what the details or if it’s, for all intents and purposes, true that he ‘beat’ her. Perhaps, she just saw a chance to make some money and took it. Perhaps, it was an accident in the midst of a couples quarrel. I’ve always thought it was wrong that a girl can hit a guy all she wants but the moment he touches her once he goes to jail. If there’s a domestic dispute, who is likely to get arrested? The male. Isn’t he innocent until proven guilty (OJ aside). And it’s always possible the media ‘pumped’ up the story for profit’s sake. Just saying, I’m gonna give him the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.
by infinityzero.systemerror on Aug 15, 2010 11:41 PM EDT reply actions
Amen infinity
I’m not happy about this but it’s stupid to assume that the Pacers should cut him because of a press release before learning any details.
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