At 33-years-old Lance has bounced around the NBA quite a bit, including a 6-game stop with the Timberwolves in 2017. His experience goes beyond the NBA, too. Stephenson has played some ball in Puerto Rico recently, and China in 2019-20.

Lance Stephenson Putting On A Show for Iowa Wolves

But since being signed by the Wolves, Stephenson has been dominating G-League competition down in Iowa, giving himself a very legitimate chance of playing on an NBA roster by season’s end.

He’s played in seven games and only started four. In game one, he posted 11 PTS, 3 RBS and 1 AST (25 min), and only finds his groove more and more as he stacks games.

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In his 4th game, a win over the G League Ignite, Stephenson completely took over. Literally a man against boys, and his 16 PTS, 16 RBS, 7 AST stat line shows it. Then, in his most recent game (7th with Iowa) Lance Stephenson dropped a triple double vs the Salt Lake City Stars: 21 PTS 10 RBS and 10 AST.

.@StephensonLance notches his first triple-double in a Wolves uni en route to securing the W, and is today's Athene Player of the Game pic.twitter.com/OrGlVE19hH

— Iowa Wolves (@iawolves) January 15, 2024

Get Lance Stephenson In A Timberwolves Uniform?

In the 2 minute clip of Lance Stephenson, you can see that boy man is hooping. Can you imagine the energy Lance Stephenson could bring to the Timberwolves locker room, even if he doesn’t play.

Although, I do believe he can be of use off the bench. I love Jordan McLaughlin, but did you see those highlights above? You can’t tell me Lance Stephenson couldn’t play a role on this team.

But really, the Timberwolves aren’t the only team “interviewing” Lance Stephenson for a possible job opportunity. Technically, he’s an NBA free agent and any team could ‘call him up’ and sign him to an NBA deal. And from what I’m seeing, it won’t be long before that happens.

Iowa Wolves sign Lance Stephenson to G-League Contract

In theory, that should make the Iowa Wolves, Minnesota’s G-League affiliate, a good team too. But, that has not been the case through 12 G-League games. Instead, they sit near the bottom of the Central Division standings with a poultry 3-9 record.

So right away this week, the Wolves front office decided to shake things up a little bit, signing one of the all-time NBA agitators and former Minnesota Timberwolf, Lance Stephenson, to a G-League contract.

NBA 10-year veteran Lance Stephenson is joining the Minnesota Timberwolves G League affiliate, Iowa Wolves, league sources told @hoopshype. Minnesota has an open NBA roster spot. pic.twitter.com/A9SnUTp3W3

— Michael Scotto (@MikeAScotto) December 11, 2023

Stephenson hasn’t played in 3 of the last 4 NBA seasons, so many probably don’t know that he just turned 33-years-old. Back in 2016-17, Stephenson was brought in mid-season by Tom Thibodeau. He played a memorable 6 games, averaging 3.5 points and 1.7 rebounds in 11.2 minutes per game.

Lance Stephenson is one of my favorite all time “oh yeah, he played for the Wolves at one point” guys https://t.co/eEkKLZLpn7 pic.twitter.com/DBaWZxE9ai

— Wolves Report (@MNTwolvesreport) January 9, 2022

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Stephenson takes aim at deep Minnesota Timberwolves roster

I’d imagine trying to fix the Iowa Wolves’ locker room isn’t his final goal in the organization. That’s probably mission one of a plan that Stephenson hopes will land him on the Timberwolves NBA roster, where he can help provide veteran depth, attitude and deep-run playoff experience.

We’ll see if Lance has anything left in the tank but I don’t really see a downsign to this signing, from a Minnesota Timberwolves standpoint.