Clippers’ Lance Stephenson can be the next Josh Smith

Since news broke that the Los Angeles Clippers would be bringing in Lance Stephenson for next season, it seems like every basketball fan around has had an opinion on the move. For the most part, those words have been negative, with many feeling that Stephenson will be detrimental to the growth of this team from contender, to favourite team to come out of the West next year. While Stephenson’s career certainly got lost in Charlotte with the Hornets however, this is absolutely a risk worth taking for the franchise for a number of reasons.

Let’s start with the facts, and that is that Lance Stephenson only has one year remaining on his current deal. This means that if this all goes badly, they…