Merged: Cousins traded to N'Awlins (for some Cajun shrimp)

Boogie and the Brow are the new singing group! I like this article. I put excerpts that are general in the first rectangle, and X's and O's in the second.

http://www.foxsports.com/nba/story/...have-the-golden-state-warriors-worried-022017

 

To let that sink a little bit more, how terrible this deal is, we got a pick that will be in the same exact range as the pick Sacramento just got, and a player who is comfortably as good at his position as Hield is at his and is actually a year younger too with more NBA experience, for Mason Plumlee. We got the same or better return for Mason Plumlee that they got for DeMarcus Cousins. Imagine.

 

I wonder if this deal goes down at all if Rudy Gay doesn't get injured? He was rumored to go to OKC and they likely would have included their 1st round pick. They may have been more patient.

 

lolololol
Divac and Vivek need to get blood tested asap, even a 12 yr old could do a better job.

 

I posted this 3 days ago. Damon Stoudamire said that a small market must take risks in trades, and Portland doesn't take risks. First, his words, then, my translation of those words.

"There are more attractive places," Stoudamire said. "When you look at Portland. I spent a lot of time in Memphis as a player and a coach. I look at those two places, they have to utilize the trade better than anybody. I said something the other day, with that trade has to be a risk. The biggest robbery of a trade that nobody ever says is when I was at Memphis as a coach we traded Quentin Richardson for Zach Randolph. Why? Because nobody wanted him. You take that chance. Zach had a year left on that deal, and you take that chance."

Reworded: Small markets like Memphis and Portland must be tricky to survive. The conservative Oregonian destroyed nonconformist black players for years, forcing Zach out. The Memphis media greeted Zach with open arms. So Memphis has had a top team for years and Portland hasn't. Ever since the 25 Points replaced Whitsitt, the Blazers have avoided risk.

http://www.sportstwo.com/threads/da...dont-love-portland.309327/page-2#post-4090369

 

Whitsitt used to take risks. Since then, the Oregonian has had Paul Allen living in terror, like a locomotive glued to its tracks.

 

Funniest thing: in all of the comments i see online i noticed that all of the people who are mad are actually fans of other teams which were not involved, wondering why their GM didn't rob the Kings.

 

could be some interesting pieces available before the deadline. if Sac waives evans he goes to Cavs

 

I wounder if Cousins is the kind of guy that is going to bolt to a "winner" It'll be interesting to see how he works with Anthony Davis in NO

 

Did Sacramento just think Hield is the next NBA superstar or something? My first thought about this trade was, "Wow, Cousins must have no value around the NBA and this is all Sacramento could get." It still wouldn't excuse the trade, because they have time to hold onto him and see if a team gets desperate, but it would at least explain the tiny yield. But with reports that they had much better offers (including Drummond, who's already very good and could be a star/superstar if things click), there's just no explaining this at all.

 

Now that the incentive to resign with his current team is removed, I bet he's like Melo and wants to be in a place where he can party. Signing with the Lakers in summer 2018 is my bet.

 

I bet Danny Ainge could pull a trade easily, but he didn't as a courtesy to Isaiah Thomas.

 

Why would the Kings dump Cousins if they didn't strongly believe he wouldn't resign?

 

Because he'd max at $219mil over, what, 5-6 seasons? That's a lot of cap flexibility to pay a loose cannon, if you don't have faith in him to lead your team.

 

I wouldn't trade Festus Ezeli's surgical gauze for Cousins.

 

All the quotes were that the Kings didn't want to commit the $200 million to DMC. His behavor hasn't improved as the season progressed and his recent suspension for technical gave them cold feet for this huge payday. Once they realized they weren't going build around him, they decided this was a great draft and it would be a good move to accelerate the rebuild.

I don't agree, I would have resigned DMC and looked to trade him for another proven star.

 

Franchise players are always worth MORE than their salary. Just look at what we're going to be spending on Leonard/Crabbe/Turner combined. Who has more of an impact?

 

Yeah, a re-signed Cousins probably would have gotten a lot more in return.

 

Not always.

I can see why Sacto didn't want to make that commitment, but they could've gotten more in return, for sure.