Lance Stephenson took a one-year deal with the Los Angeles Lakers in free agency this summer, adding to the team’s wing depth while also allowing them to maintain financial flexibility to re-enter free agency in 2019 with enough cap space to add a player on a maximum contract.
It’s unknown how the Lakers’ gamble will work out, but should Stephenson play well and become an integral part of the team, there is a chance the Lakers decide to keep him around like they did with Kentavious Caldwell-Pope last season.
However likely or unlikely that scenario is, though, Stephenson has made it clear that he won’t be doing the same thing as Caldwell-Pope did and staying on another one-year deal.