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

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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.
 
Sinobas said:
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
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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.
 
Why would the Kings dump Cousins if they didn't strongly believe he wouldn't resign?
 
I wouldn't trade Festus Ezeli's surgical gauze for Cousins.
 
Sinobas said:
Why would the Kings dump Cousins if they didn't strongly believe he wouldn't resign?
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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.
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
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.
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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?
 
craigehlo said:
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.
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Yeah, a re-signed Cousins probably would have gotten a lot more in return.
 
Sinobas said:
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?
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Not always.

I can see why Sacto didn't want to make that commitment, but they could've gotten more in return, for sure.
 
jlprk said:
Whitsitt used to take risks. Since then, the Oregonian has had Paul Allen living in terror, like a locomotive glued to its tracks.
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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.
 
A Kings fan posted this on their board....
mac said:
Err maybe its all agreed that Cousins will sign with the Kings when he becomes a UFA and we benefit by adding some talent from tanking in the meantime?
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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.
 
Mediocre Man said:
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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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.
 
Sinobas said:
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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jlprk said:
Two stars who are used to getting the ball, will get into each other's way, whose shots overlap...Nope. Look at how perfectly their favorite shots complement each other.

Cousins is Mr. Inside-Outside and Davis (the uterus pattern) is the forward.

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Clearly both of their brains in these CAT scans are showing early signs of alzheimers
 
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
 
Sarni said:
Am I right saying that Cousins will be able to sign that $200M deal at Pelicans too because those rights transfer with a player?
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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.
 
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
 
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.
 
We got more for Plums wtf.

And Omri is headed out too? He's a starter!
 
obviously, his value was much lower than anyone realized. this was the best deal they could get.
 
lawai'a said:
I think that was his brother
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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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