CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The officials determined that Lance Stephenson‘s guitar was out of tune on Saturday night.
Stephenson was called for a technical foul for taunting after making a 3-pointer with 3:18 remaining in the Los Angeles Lakers‘ game against the Charlotte Hornets to put the Lakers up by 32 points en route to their eventual 128-100 victory. He got the whistle blown on him for making his way back down the court strumming an air guitar in the direction of Hornets rookie Miles Bridges.
It was the second technical foul of the season for Stephenson, this one coming for rubbing it in against his former team; he played for the Hornets during the 2014-15 season.
Stephenson did some talking with his feet, too, wearing an all-white pair of the Air Jordan XVIs while Hornets owner Michael Jordan watched on from a suite at the Spectrum Center.
Earlier in the season, Stephenson was asked about the origin of his air guitar celebration.
“I was just in practice messing around,” he said. “Just came out of nowhere. Stuck with it.”