Lafayette attended Capitol High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and led the basketball team to a 29–3 record his senior year.

[2] Lafayette played with the Fort Wayne Mad Ants during the 2009–10 season in the NBA Development League.

[3] On April 14, 2010, Lafayette signed with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association[4][5] and appeared in one game with the team in which he scored 7 points.

[9] After averaging 16.4 points per game with the Mad Ants, he signed a four-month contract with the Turkish team Beşiktaş.

Lafayette was awarded with a Croatian passport and represented Croatia at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup.

[25] In the summer of 2017, Lafayette joined two-time The Basketball Tournament defending champion Overseas Elite.