Cousins tears ACL

[blazerfan11]

https://bleacherreport.com/articles...om&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=referral

Los Angeles Lakers center DeMarcus Cousins' season could be over before it even begins because of a knee injury he suffered during a workout in Las Vegas on Monday.
Shams Charania of The Athletic and Stadium reported Cousins will undergo final tests that are expected to confirm a torn ACL.
ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported Cousins left the court while working out after "'bumping knees' with another player."

 

[speeds]

Man that is unfortunate.

 

[illmatic99]

lower extremity injuries for big men scare the hell out of me. Unfortunate for Boogie

 

[andalusian]

Bummer for Boogie. At least he was signed when this happened.

 

[SheedSoNasty]

I wonder if this is getting closer to career ending for him.

 

[Further]

I wonder if this is getting closer to career ending for him.

Hello Big Three

 

[Chris Craig]

I wonder if this is getting closer to career ending for him.

He's done

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Hopefully he has made some good investments and didn't just bank on the assumption he'd be making a lot more money in the league. Seems like his body is telling him he's done being an athlete. It happens early for some.

 

[superfly4201]

Players should look at this and think hard about taking bird in hand. Dude coulda signed a huge, maybe max deal, instead messed around and will most likely make a fraction of what he could of.

 

[Scalma]

Calling it now Portland signs him next summer for the minimum.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Turning down 40m/2 years to chase rings looks like a bad move

 

[H.C.]

Players should look at this and think hard about taking bird in hand. Dude coulda signed a huge, maybe max deal, instead messed around and will most likely make a fraction of what he could of.

Before he was traded to the Pelicans.
IIRC Boogie made his intentions clear. He wanted to stay in Sac and sign the max.
There was even a video of him crying after he got traded.
Seems like Boogie wanted to change his families life. Not win a ring.
Which is fine and not a knock on him.

 

[Titan]

Turning down 40m/2 years to chase rings looks like a bad move

Well, that is water under the bay bridge now.

 

[Sarni]

True shame. It must be depressing when you are basically a lock to get a max contract or close to that, which would be like $150million or something, get injured and end up making $8million over two years. He might not get another deal at all.

Similar to IT, he might have got over $100million contract after his best Celtics season and he ended up getting minimum deals for the next two years. And he wasn’t even that badly injured.

 

[THE HCP]

I love when we have threads all about the mighty Lakers on our forum. Love it.

 

[riverman]

I love when we have threads all about the mighty Lakers on our forum. Love it.

You'll be crying all night over this Laker setback thread.....sucks if you're a LAKER FAN! I like Boogie......basketball gods did not want him to be a Laker I'm guessing...I don't feel sorry for his finances...he's been set for life on the salary he's made if he didn't blow it. It ain't like he's living on a social security check.

 

[Natebishop3]

He cost himself a lot of money.

 

[riverman]

He cost himself a lot of money.

He's under contract, insured to the hilt and will get paid millions to fix his injury....money problems are the least of his issues...he might have just had his Greg Oden last gasp career wise and if he does come back...he'll be more Al Jefferson than AD...

 

[B-Roy]

You'll be crying all night over this Laker setback thread.....sucks if you're a LAKER FAN! I like Boogie......basketball gods did not want him to be a Laker I'm guessing...I don't feel sorry for his finances...he's been set for life on the salary he's made if he didn't blow it. It ain't like he's living on a social security check.

Yeah, he's made $89 million in his career so far. Injuries like this definitely suck, and he's lost a lot of *potential* money, but $89 million is enough to set up him and future generations of his offspring for life, so let's not act like he's not still a blessed individual.

 

[KingSpeed]

He's under contract, insured to the hilt and will get paid millions to fix his injury....money problems are the least of his issues...he might have just had his Greg Oden last gasp career wise and if he does come back...he'll be more Al Jefferson than AD...

Whatever happened to Big Al?

 

[Natebishop3]

Yeah, he's made $89 million in his career so far. Injuries like this definitely suck, and he's lost a lot of *potential* money, but $89 million is enough to set up him and future generations of his offspring for life, so let's not act like he's not still a blessed individual.

It's definitely more than Oden ever made.

 

[BonesJones]

He's under contract, insured to the hilt and will get paid millions to fix his injury....money problems are the least of his issues...he might have just had his Greg Oden last gasp career wise and if he does come back...he'll be more Al Jefferson than AD...

I'd take a better passing, better shooting, better defending version of Al Jefferson.

 

[oldfisherman]

Darn, this is horrible news.

I was counting on Boggie's bad behavior to disrupt the lakers chemistry.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Darn, this horrible news.

I was counting on Boggies bad behavior to disrupt the lakers chemistry.

I think his, “bad behavior”, has always been greatly exaggerated. Sure he's had temper tantrums but he has also been targetted by refs and given fouls, or technicals for some of the silliest reasons. Draymond on the other hand should be fouled out or tossed from like 90% of his games...

 

[riverman]

Whatever happened to Big Al?

I think he was a Pacer under Nate...not sure if he's in the league now...I'll check..got it....after Indiana he played in China...this season retired and joined the Big3 league.....

 

[riverman]

This Big 3 league is blowing up...going to be huge entertainment with all the old guys who can't play full court anymore...I'm diggin' it....I've always liked 3 set seniors tour tennis...great fun..little Globe Trotters humor thrown in for laughs.

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[GhostOfPGA]

He’s like the new Bynum

 

[Labinot41]

Calling it now Portland signs him next summer for the minimum.

I made a Screenshot

 

[borim69]

Hate to see this happen to any athlete. I wish him the best of luck and a healthy recovery.