Stephenson: It will be an interesting year, playing with LeBron and winning games with him

Lance Stephenson can’t wait to play and win with LeBron James.
Stephenson signed a one-year with the Lakers and will have LeBron as a teammate for the first time in his career.

Per IndyStar, James didn’t personally call him after signing his four-year, $154 million contract with the Lakers over the offseason. “Magic (Johnson) called me and he told me LeBron was interested, very interested in me,” Stephenson said. As a teammate. Stephenson told Johnson, “Give me a few hours to make this decision. I decided to go there and, hopefully, we will win a lot of games and have fun,” he said. 

He expects all the taunting he did to James through the years – the blowing in the ear, the heckling to draw technical fouls, the bursting into the other team’s huddle – he expects James to ask him to turn that on the Lakers’ opponents. “Yeah, he’s probably going to sic me on people,” Stephenson said. “It’ll be fun. It will be a very interesting year, just playing with him and winning games with him.”