The future of (DeMarcus Cousins) the Kings

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  1. TBpup

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    http://sports.yahoo.com/video/2-man-game-future-kings-222715485.html

    The Vertical’s (Woj's website) Chris Mannix and Bobby Marks discuss why the time is now for the Kings to trade Demarcus Cousins. Bobby Marks is a former front-office GM type and talks about why Cousins should be moved and why teams (like Boston) shouldn't be afraid of acquiring him.
     
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    Portland has to pounce on this. Give up CJ. The defensive tandem of CJ and Lillard is always going to suck.
     
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    Give UP MOE Meyers and Crabbe for him
     
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    1. The Kings won't trade their one decent player.
    2. If they did, other teams have much more enticing assets.
    3. If we got him, his knees would explode.
     
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    It's worth a shot I guess. Huge blowup-in-your-face potential, but better to go out with a bang versus a whimper.
     
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    History has many examples which show these points to be false assumptions. It's been rumored for quite awhile that the Kings were considering trading him, and he has one year left and could leave for nothing. A player of CJs calibur might actually be the best thing on the table. CJ is locked into 4 more years, while Portland would run the risk of Demarcus bolting after 1.
     
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    CJ's extension makes him virtually impossible to trade this season.
     
    PtldPlatypus, Nov 25, 2016
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    How so?
     
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    Because of the way the contract is written.
     
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    The Kings front office screwed up so many other decisions, they'll probably mess this up too
     
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    The only way the Kings trade Cousins is if they can dump a bunch of other shit at the same time.
     
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    They don't really have a ton of other shit they need to get rid of.
     
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    Right, The Blazers would have to take Rudy Gay and I'd be OK with that. Lillard, Cousins and Gay as a big three?
     
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    The CBA states that when a player signs an extension off his rookie deal, the "poison pill provision" kicks in. In terms of salary matching, CJ would only count as his current salary for us, but would count as the average of his next 5 years' salaries (21m) for any team to which we would trade him. So it's incredibly difficult to structure a deal including CJ in which salaries match for both teams. In fact, it would need to involve a team that can take back significantly more salary than it sends out; ie, a team like Philly that is way under the cap.
     
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    So, you're saying we're trading Dame then?

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