Lance Stephenson is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Player who was born on September 5, 1990 in Brooklyn, New York State, United States. NBA shooting guard who was drafted 40th overall by the Indiana Pacers in 2010. He helped them to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2013 and 2014. He then went on to play for such teams as the Charlotte Hornets, Los Angeles Clippers, Memphis Grizzlies and Los Angeles Lakers.
Always his own biggest believer, in the summer before his first year of high school he challenged O.J. Mayo, three years his senior, to a one-on-one basketball game; Mayo came out on top.
In the summer of 2005, Stephenson enrolled at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, but he only attended the school for three days, before the school lost in the championship game of a youth league and he did not win the tournament MVP. The following week, Stephenson did not return to classes at Bishop Loughlin, and was attending Abraham Lincoln High School near his home in Coney Island. National Basketball Association players Stephon Marbury, Sebastian Telfair, and future Seton Hall University star Isaiah Whitehead had also attended and played basketball at Lincoln High. Head coach Dwayne Morton said, “{Stephenson} always talked about outdoing Sebastian, outdoing Stephon,” and called him “The best I’ve ever had at Lincoln.” Stephenson went on to lead the Railsplitters to the city title that year.
Lincoln High repeated as champions his sophomore and junior years, while Stephenson won back-to-back Player of the Year honors from the New York Daily News. As a sophomore, he was the youngest player featured in the movie Gunnin’ for That No. 1 Spot, which followed eight high school basketball prospects. In 2007 as a high school junior he was named to the annual USA Today’s All-USA boys basketball team, the only non-senior to be given that honor.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He has a daughter named Liara.
