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

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  1. Mediocre Man

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    Whitsitt overpaid before the salary cap era. The risks he took won us 0 titles, and made us a laughing stock for a decade.
     
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    A Kings fan posted this on their board....
    Lol. I honestly feel bad for those guys. They appear to be invested in the team, just like we are here, and just got screwed over by the own owner. That would be like PA trading Dame and CJ.....











    To get Felton back.
     
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    The salary cap was in effect during the Whitsett era (cap started in 1984). He build a championship quality team. The refs stole it really.

    He was only a laughingstock after the Kemp and Jermaine O'Neal trades.
     
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    There was a salary cap but no luxury tax until 2001. Example in 99/00 the cap was $34 million, Portland had over $70mill in guaranteed contracts, because there was no penalty. THe Luxury tax actually came into play to keep owners like Portland from trading for cheap guys on the promise they would spend as much as necessary.
     
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    Clearly both of their brains in these CAT scans are showing early signs of alzheimers
     
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    New Orleans is a city a guy like Boogie can get into a ton of trouble in.....lot of crime there. I think Olshey now focuses on Okafor with New Orleans out of the picture
     
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    don't know if anyone answered you yet. No, he can not be a designated franchise player now, so it will cost him at least $30 million.
     
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    No other GM wanted to touch head case like Cousins in there locker room. Except for maybe 3 teams NO and Detroit and LA.
     
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    The real question is will this trade make New Orleans the jailpelicans?
     
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    When has Cousins ever been in trouble with the law?
     
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    Jailicans for short.
     
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    He and Matt Barnes were arrested for Assaulting someone.
     
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    When has he lived in New Orleans? I think he's a headcase....a lot of the jailblazers weren't in trouble with the law either.
     
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    speaking of, its surprising to me that barnes wasn't included in the trade, supposedly he is some sort of boogie whisperer, that's why the kings brought him in, in the first place
     
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    Dude is a train wreck of a cancer.... Makes Sheed's antics look funny by comparison.
     
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    Cousins was a tough personality, but on a train wreck of a franchise. He actually got along well with coach Mike Malone and Malone was doing pretty well. He was fired by the Kings after an 11-13 start with Cousins injured. So he took a team that was complete trash without their superstar to a near .500 record, he was the first NBA coach that Cousins actually respected and got along well with and the Kings fired him.

    This is the level of idiocy Cousins has been dealing with. It's like the franchise has been in self-sabotage mode for years. Cousins certainly should still be more professional but I'm not buying that Cousins definitely can't be a productive member of a competent and winning organization. Maybe that's true, but until I see him on a franchise that's not trying to commit suicide, I'll take a wait-and-see position.
     
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    I think that was his brother
     
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    We got more for Plums wtf.

    And Omri is headed out too? He's a starter!
     
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    obviously, his value was much lower than anyone realized. this was the best deal they could get.
     
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    Interesting... I will have to take a closer look. I do know that DeMarcus is the one getting sued for it (but of course that could be partially because he has more money).
     
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