It’s official. The New Orleans Pelicans announced on Wednesday that Lance Stephenson has been signed to a contract, guaranteeing him 100K of a league minimum $1.22 million. He will join the team in training camp and attempt to prove he deserves a chance to earn the entire sum, thus effectively force Dell Demps to move one of the already fifteen guaranteed contracts prior to the start of the regular season.
How likely is this scenario?
Well, it’s not all that rather complex as it will likely boil down to Alvin Gentry’s decision of whether he would be willing to adapt his schemes and strategies to allow Stephenson’s game to flourish.