Stackhouse attended a University of North Carolina and declared his eligibility for the NBA draft following his second-year year. He was drafted by having a third pick per Philadelphia 76ers in 1995. Inside his 1st year sustaining a 76ers, Stackhouse averaged Xix.Two points by a game, the 76ers' leading scorer, & was known as to the NBA's 100%-Rookie team. In the 1996-97 season, the 76ers likewise drafted Allen Iverson. Conjunctive, them posted 44.Ii points by the game for the Sextet.

Midway through the 1997-98 season, however, Stackhouse was dealt to the Detroit Pistons with Eric Montross for Theo Ratliff, Aaron McKie and future considerations. Per 1999-00 year, his second fully season sustaining a Pistons, Stackhouse was averaging Twenty-three.Sextuplet points by the game & the year later on, he got a career-high norm of Xxix.Octonary points by the game. However, because he systematically posted moo shooting percentages, fans took to calling him "brickhouse."

In a period of the 2002 offseason, Stackhouse was traded to the Washington Wizards in a six-player treat. Inside his number one year sustaining Wa, Stackhouse averaged Xxi.Quint points & Little joe.Quintuplet helps by a game, leading the team. All a same, in the period of the 2003-04 year, Stackhouse missed most of the season recovering from either arthroscopic surgery on his right knee, swimming around sole Twenty-six games.

In June 23, 2004, Stackhouse was traded along with Christian Laettner and the Wizards' foremost-spherical draft pick to the Dallas Mavericks for Antawn Jamison.