When Lance Stephenson spurned the Pacers in the summer of 2014, their shooting guard of the future disappeared. Larry Bird moved quickly to replace him, signing Rodney Stuckey who was excited to play for a playoff team again. Of course, Paul George broke his leg shortly thereafter. It wasn’t long before both Roy Hibbert and David West were no longer with the team, and the Pacers were forced into a pseudo-rebuild far sooner than anyone expected.
Sir Lance-a-lot has struggled since he left Indiana and their “grown-man culture” that they had tried to implement, but the Pacers have yet to find his longterm replacement.