{"id":63975,"date":"2018-04-24T09:16:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T09:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=63975"},"modified":"2018-04-24T09:16:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T09:16:35","slug":"lance-stephenson-one-nba-bad-guy-cant-help-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/lance-stephenson-one-nba-bad-guy-cant-help-love.html","title":{"rendered":"Lance Stephenson is one NBA bad guy you can\u2019t help but love"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Lance Stephenson is one NBA bad guy you can\u2019t help but love<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Turned on the Cleveland Cavaliers-Indiana Pacers game Sunday night and a WWE match broke out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">All that was missing was the wrestling ring, Vince McMahon and blue-and-yellow tights for Loathsome Lance Stephenson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Purists surely think Loathesome Lance is bad for basketball, not to mention a danger to LeBron James and the rest of the Cavaliers. But the truth is he\u2019s must-watch TV and, even in the Cavaliers\u2019 104-100 victory in Game 4, came out looking like a winner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">With Rick Flair-like flair, he flopped and flipped and wrestled (for the ball and attention.). Somewhere, Dennis Rodman was smiling. But Loathesome Lance menaces with more mirth than Dennis did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Ever see an NBA player strum an air guitar after draining a 3-pointer? Now you have, thanks to Loathesome Lance, who came off the bench and in 23 minutes had 11 points, six assists and multiple floor burns while getting under the Cavs\u2019 skin like bed bugs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The King acknowledged as much from his throne.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Sitting at the podium during the postgame press conference, James was asked about the technical foul he picked up with 6:12 left to play, when the Cavaliers had been clinging to a 91-89 lead and Loathesome Lance had been stalking him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a timeout called and there&#8217;s a guy following me to my bench,\u2019\u2019 he said, referring to Stephenson. \u201cI gave him a little nudge and he falls to half court. Come on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Loathesome Lance had set the bait, and LeBron had taken it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">&#8220;I should know better,\u2019\u2019 LeBron added. \u201cI&#8217;ve been dealing with this since elementary school. It&#8217;s like I tell you a joke and then you laugh and you get caught. That&#8217;s what happened,&#8221; James said with a smile. &#8220;Lance told me a joke, I laughed, teacher caught me and now I gotta go see the principal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">If Loathesome Lance keeps it up, if he can take LeBron out of his game during the remainder of a series tied 2-2, the joke will be on the Cavs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt;color: #000000\">Source:-https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/playoffs\/2018\/04\/23\/lance-stephenson-one-nba-bad-guy-you-cant-help-but-love\/541861002\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/lance-stephenson-one-nba-bad-guy-cant-help-love.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Stephenson is one NBA bad guy you can\u2019t help but love Turned on the Cleveland Cavaliers-Indiana Pacers game Sunday night and a WWE match broke out. All that was missing was the wrestling ring, Vince McMahon and blue-and-yellow tights for Loathsome Lance Stephenson. 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