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The guy is a headcase, but it seems Sac is considering moving him.
Apparently there is a scuffle among the Maloofs and management. Neither side can commit to the type of return they would want for Cousins. Some say young players & picks, others say talent & or cap relief.
The only contract that really hurts them is what they owe to John Salmons. He is owed $22 mil over the next 3 years with year 3 being a team option. If they are trying to gut the team, he would be the first to go.
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As you can also see Cousins has one additional year on his contract. Odds are he will be getting a big pay day after this one is up. Not sure how much we would have to give up considering he will be a FA at the end of next season.
From a talent stand point Cousins is very promising
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Maybe a 3 way trade:
To SAC: Zeller+ TOR 2013 1st + CLE 2014 (or protected 2013 1st)+ CLE 2013 2nd+ Lamb
To OKC: Varejao
To CLE: Cousins + Salmons
Gives them cap relief, 2 young prospects, and future picks. Perkins could possibly go to SAC, but it would eliminate the cap relief. Some other outbound salary must be involved for OKC to make the trade work. However, he may be one of the few guys that could go in there and clean up the locker room. It also helps OKC with their title run.
Do you want this guy???
Let The Trade Rumors Fly – Sacramento Kings’ DeMarcus Cousins Not “Untouchable”
Dec 22nd, 2012 at 4:48 pm by Bryan RosaKings
The man, the myth – Sam Amick – has been covering the DeMarcus Cousins saga from top to bottom today and now shocking word from Amick is that the Kings aren’t opposed to moving the big man, assuming the price is right.
Given the Kings poor play in recent years and the lack of progression from just about everybody on the roster, Kings GM Geoff Petrie (who’s known to be overly patient, at times to a fault) could be opening the door to a Cousins move – at least, according to a couple of Amick’s sources:
The odds of the latest incident inspiring the Kings to trade Cousins are likely slim, as he is considered the centerpiece of their prolonged rebuilding effort. But a person with knowledge of the Kings’ plans said “he’s not untouchable,” in large part because the 8-18 team is struggling so mightily and all options appear to be under consideration.
As Amick points out, there certainly isn’t going to be a firesale on Cousins (at least not right now) so any deal would be of a blockbuster proportion – a price most, if not all teams would balk at.
The rumor mill we be churning at an electric pace in the coming weeks and months as everybody loves a potential deal, but a move is quite unlikely in my personal opinion – at least not during the season. More issue and antics combined with a team holding a high draft pick come June or July and I wouldn’t rule out a move, but one right now doesn’t seem to be a priority.
Amick also points out that Cousins has recently changed his representation, though, that could be a simple coincidence.
Kings royally screwed up between DeMarcus Cousins, Maloofs
PUBLISHED Sunday, Dec 23, 2012 at 1:17 pm EST LAST UPDATED 2 days and 19 hours ago
The Sacramento Kings had to suspend DeMarcus Cousins again on Saturday, and after less than 2 1/2 years, it looks as if they would be better off without him.
On the other hand, at age 22 and with a world of unfulfilled potential, Cousins might be better off without the Kings.
Sure, DeMarcus Cousins has issues, but the Maloofs have created Sacramento's toxic environment. (AP Photo)
— Cousins used "extensive profanity"
Only time will tell which ends up being the bigger train wreck. But the fact it’s even a debate after what Cousins did to get suspended says a lot. So does the fact the Kings' faithful are largely undecided, too.
Cousins has given them a lot to be fed up with. The Maloofs, who have mismanaged the Kings to a scandalous level and are still actively shopping them to other cities, have given them more to be upset with for a longer time.
The Kings, of course, are terrible this year—not Wizards terrible, but Friday’s loss to the Clippers in LA left them 8-18. That was the game in which Cousins got into a blistering locker-room argument with coach Keith Smart and was banished for the second half.
The suspension is his third this season but first by the team, albeit at least the fourth disciplinary action the Kings have taken with him. It’s hard to get suspended three times in a 26-game span, and when it happens in one’s third NBA season, the “he needs time to mature” argument gets stale.
Nobody can blame the Kings for running out of patience. You can’t draft 19-year-olds one year out of high school without a healthy reserve of patience, but there are limits. Cousins issued another sincere-sounding apology; he hasn’t figured out how to put actions behind his words. That is, unless you count changing agents the same day you get suspended. That’ll help, sure.
It all raises the question of why Cousins was picked fifth overall in 2010 in the first place, when he was talented enough to go as high as second but immature enough to need to stay in school at least one more year.
Geoff Petrie, as good as it got in NBA front offices when the Kings were chasing the NBA Finals in the early 2000s, has been a shadow of himself lately. His picks have bombed (Jimmer!), his trades have backfired, his roster is weak and the head-coaching job is a revolving door (Smart is the sixth in the last eight seasons).
Cousins, in fact, tangled with Smart’s predecessor, Paul Westphal, in an incident last year that made both of them and the organization look worse off for the encounter. The catalyst: a supposed Cousins trade demand. Westphal said he made it, forcing him to suspend him. The team released a statement supporting Westphal’s side. Cousins insisted he didn’t do it, and to this day it’s questionable that he ever did. One of the co-owners, Joe Maloof, later distanced himself from Westphal’s contention. Westphal ended up getting fired.
Verdict: Cousins was a problem. But he wasn’t the only problem. Neither was Westphal, as time has proved. Neither is Petrie, for that matter.
It starts at the top.
It’s true in the NBA, in all sports, and in all work environments—when management is in disarray and instability is rampant, a character such as Cousins can come in and take over. Right now, everything that’s happening in and around the Kings somehow centers on its most volatile personality.
He’s now a convenient scapegoat for the franchise’s dysfunction. But he’s only the biggest, most visible symptom of it.
Think of the times Dennis Rodman, Latrell Sprewell and Ron Artest, for example, were wreaking havoc with teams ... and think of the times they weren’t. Hint: It wasn’t when there were stronger, more authoritative people around and above them.
The kind of madness constantly circulating around Cousins doesn’t happen around a Tim Duncan and a Gregg Popovich, for example.
Smart, committed owners make sure of that. The Maloofs used to be that. Not anymore.
The Cousins affair is ugly, but it’s also coming just weeks after the latest threat to the Kings’ existence in Sacramento was snuffed, when Virginia Beach was denied state funds to build an arena to lure the team there. Kings fans and the city itself are uptight about a lot more than a petulant young star.
At least if Cousins left—even in a lopsided trade with nothing close to fair value in return—he wouldn’t be taking more than a quarter-century of emotional and financial investment with him.
For the good of himself, his career and the team that drafted him, Cousins might have to go. Even with that disappointment, though, Sacramento would rather see the Maloofs go.
They’re the bigger, longer-lasting headache.
Report: DeMarcus Cousins out again
Sacramento Kings center DeMarcus Cousins did not travel with the team for Wednesday night's game against the Portland Trail Blazers, according to a report by the Sacramento Bee.
Coach Keith Smart decided not to bring Cousins on the trip, according to the report. Cousins was reinstated after a one-game suspension for "unprofessional behavior and conduct detrimental to the team." However, Smart told the Sacramento Bee the reinstatement meant Cousins could practice, not necessarily play.
Cousins practiced with the Kings on Monday. Cousins and Smart exchanged words in the locker room during halftime of Sacramento's loss at the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night. Smart benched Cousins for the entire second half and ordered him to remain in the locker room.
Cousins' suspension initially was termed indefinite.
The 22-year-old Cousins has been suspended two other times by the NBA this season because of his conduct.
Apparently there is a scuffle among the Maloofs and management. Neither side can commit to the type of return they would want for Cousins. Some say young players & picks, others say talent & or cap relief.
The only contract that really hurts them is what they owe to John Salmons. He is owed $22 mil over the next 3 years with year 3 being a team option. If they are trying to gut the team, he would be the first to go.
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As you can also see Cousins has one additional year on his contract. Odds are he will be getting a big pay day after this one is up. Not sure how much we would have to give up considering he will be a FA at the end of next season.
From a talent stand point Cousins is very promising
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Maybe a 3 way trade:
To SAC: Zeller+ TOR 2013 1st + CLE 2014 (or protected 2013 1st)+ CLE 2013 2nd+ Lamb
To OKC: Varejao
To CLE: Cousins + Salmons
Gives them cap relief, 2 young prospects, and future picks. Perkins could possibly go to SAC, but it would eliminate the cap relief. Some other outbound salary must be involved for OKC to make the trade work. However, he may be one of the few guys that could go in there and clean up the locker room. It also helps OKC with their title run.
Do you want this guy???