TEAM DREAMS: The Pacers are 12 Words About Lance Stephenson, Six Times

Lance vibrates at a competitive frequency that conventional instruments cannot pick up.

The way in which he’s been good, when he’s been good, baffles.

When he disappears into glazed inner distance, he does so for seasons.

When he returned late last season, it was somehow, again, as himself.

Think of him making a layup at the buzzer in a blowout.

Raptors swarmed him, fuming; he seemed somehow surprised, and completely at home.