Indiana Pacers may cut Luis Scola to make room for Lance Stepheson

We haven’t been hearing much from Lance Stephenson lately and that likely has both to do with the center of attention being on LeBron James and Stephenson’s antics during the Eastern Conference Finals that involved James. They seemed to be fun and games until LeBron almost got into a fight with Stephenson during a game which signaled the end of the fun and the beginning of the headache.

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But the Pacers apparently haven’t had enough of Stephenson and they might go to great lengths to bring him back next season. According to the Indianapolis Star, the Pacers may end up cutting ties with Luis Scola in order to free up cap space to give Stephenson a bigger offer.

"So to keep Stephenson, the Pacers will likely have to increase the offer. But to avoid the tax, the Pacers must free up space and one imaginable way would be cutting ties with backup forward Luis Scola. While a league source recently told The Star that Scola is still in the Pacers’ plans, Scola has roughly $2.5 million guaranteed in the final year of his contract and would be the easiest moving part to sacrifice in order to retain Stephenson."

Scola isn’t a huge loss for the Pacers, although they would have wished he had panned out better than he did. HE failed to help them much in the postseason and ended up being more of a detriment at times than a help which ended up being an issue. For Stephenson, he was a headache no doubt but he also managed to produce great numbers so the risk versus the reward evens out more so with Stephenson than it does with Scola.