Lance Stephenson hadn't gotten around to telling his eight-year-old daughter, Liara, that he was rejoining the Pacers yet. But she knew.
"She's like, 'Daddy, did you know you're back on the Pacers?!'" Stephenson recalled Friday when he met with the media on the practice court at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. "When she found out, she went crazy?"
How did she find out?
"I don't know," Stephenson said. "Kids are on the internet now."
A lot of people have been going crazy on the internet, adults included, about Stephenson's return to the Pacers. It's been an amazing reaction to a player who was controversial in his first chapter with the franchise, and failed to get a grip on his game while playing for five teams since abruptly departing in free agency three years ago.