Lance Stephenson, like many NBA players, has little interest in giving a 100 percent effort on defense. In fact, the notoriously lazy Clippers guard has no interest in giving a one percent effort on defense.
During his team’s 104-88 win over Dallas on Thursday night, Stephenson was the ringleader of a pathetic, although commonplace, defensive effort that included him casually watching the Mavericks’ third quarter shootaround.
Yes, the only league in which it’s cool to act like you’re too cool for defense is back and better than ever:
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