LOS ANGELES — They wouldn’t leave Lance Stephenson alone. The all-stars from New York’s Staten Island would score and point directly at the Los Angeles Clippers small forward, hardly inconspicuous even as he milled about the sideline in jeans and a dark blue T-shirt with a couple of heavy chains around his neck.
Stephenson had come to the game at Brooklyn’s Gersh Park earlier this month to support a neighborhood team of college players and others trying to fashion a professional career. But after a while, the prodding got to be a bit much, particularly when the emcee asked if Stephenson would “come out here and put a body on somebody.