Cousins tears ACL

[spro23]

he's built like a typical fat kid, just happened to grow to 6'10. Not surprised his joints cant hold up.

He'll be broke soon, he probably blew all his money thinking he was going to get 100+ million before his pelicans injury

[49er41580]

Bottom line his injury in New Orleans, cost him a max contract

[IBetYou]

Bottom line his injury in New Orleans, cost him a max contract

And his general attitude. Consider Durant... he had teams falling over themselves trying to sign him in spite of his injury. He's not on that level obviously but the point is you can wait on a guy that shows high character.

[IBetYou]

*relatively high character

[stevenash]

he's built like a typical fat kid, just happened to grow to 6'10. Not surprised his joints cant hold up.

He'll be broke soon, he probably blew all his money thinking he was going to get 100+ million before his pelicans injury

The dude's made 88 million and change so far, that's like 30 million quarter pounders with cheese.
I don't think he's broke yet.

Season	Team	Salary
2010-11	Sacramento Kings	$3,374,640
2011-12	Sacramento Kings	$3,627,720
2012-13	Sacramento Kings	$3,880,800
2013-14	Sacramento Kings	$4,916,974
2014-15	Sacramento Kings	$13,701,250
2015-16	Sacramento Kings	$14,728,844
2016-17	New Orleans Pelicans	$16,957,900
2017-18	New Orleans Pelicans	$18,063,850
Career	(may be incomplete)	$79,251,978

Team 2018-19 Golden State Warriors $5,337,000 Team 2019-20 Los Angeles Lakers $3,500,000

From Deadspin:

If karma exists, DeMarcus Cousins did some ethereal being mighty wrong. If this is just bad luck, Cousins not only has his own but several other people’s as well.

Either way, the news that Cousins is injured, again, while preparing for his next career-resuscitation is an aggressively cruel development—and that’s even if you don’t want to speculate what a third serious leg injury means for his future. His present just keeps going from suck to further suck.


According to Woj, he injured it while working out, preparing for the upcoming season with the Los Angeles Lakers. According to Shams, it’s a torn ACL. When it’s August, and you get Woj’d and Shams’d in a two-hour period, you’re getting the Viking cruise to hell.

And no, this isn’t the moment when you get to tell us his weight was an issue, or he is getting paid back for being unpleasant to a reporter. Nor is it the time when you remind us of his scores of charitable impulses, many of which came without publicity and therefore worth double. This isn’t even a good time to share your views on when to sign or not sign a contract. Save it for tomorrow, when everyone’s already off on their early weekends.

In short, not everything has to be a cautionary tale. Sometimes you get what you get, not what you deserve, and in the happy world of sports, getting what you get can be close to intolerable. I mean, how much rehab time must a fellow endure? How many dream scenarios must end with the protagonist falling out of an airplane? How much money must appear, then disappear? Somewhere there was a max deal for him once upon a time. Now, pffffft.

DeMarcus Cousins is either under a curse or being test-driven for one, not because of past behaviors or despite past behaviors, but because of nothing whatsoever.


I mean, who would curse him? The Sacramento Kings? They already did their worst to him by having him as the centerpiece of a brutally-operated and results-deficient franchise. The Golden State Warriors? He didn’t overcome the Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson injuries, but he didn’t cause them either, and in any event wasn’t supposed to be the key to their fourth championship. The Lakers? If the Lakers could screw this up, they’d have done it already.

No, for this, you go otherworldly or you go home. Cousins’s career is not a tragedy because the word tragedy is too strong, but it is a story about the sometimes vicious capriciousness of timing. Especially this next summer, with a free agent market everyone assures us is barely D-League level, DeMarcus Cousins 2.0 would have been a king. But DeMarcus Cousins 4.0, a big man with three leg injuries in 19 months, isn’t going to be the centerpiece of anything.

If you need this to make sense in that there’s-a-lesson-in-this-for-all-of-us way, a malevolent being with an insatiable appetite for grudges fits well. Or maybe there’s a scientific explanation—anyone notice any changes in the magnetic field lately? Maybe a leg once insulted is prone to more insult, though I’ll leave to those of you who passed on medical school because you thought you too much about the human anatomy and preferred that gig with the dry cleaner.


The likelier explanation, though, is no explanation at all. While I like the plot twist of him being cursed, that implies that there must be a reason for the curse and there doesn’t seem to be one—not even Vlade Divac, who looks he could play a curse on television. This is a nihilist approach, but until we get his doctors telling us why Cousins’s legs have turned on him, it is our position that his knee crumpled because it crumpled.

But we remain open to the possibility that he got done by Xythron The Vindictive, Galactic Lord of Cruelty For Amusement, Quadrant Nine. If he gets shin splints and then dislocates his hip, then something powerful really hates him and has chosen his legs as the milieu for its dissatisfaction.
Or worse yet, a contract from the Phoenix Suns materializes. Then we’ll know for dead sure.

[49er41580]

And his general attitude. Consider Durant... he had teams falling over themselves trying to sign him in spite of his injury. He's not on that level obviously but the point is you can wait on a guy that shows high character.

It’s call desperate, Durant will never win another championship

[stevenash]

the nba gives out big deals to everyone who is just a tad better than the "average" player now a days

1000 year old dinosaur Vince Carter comes to mind here.

[rm18]

Vince is still decent though, some guys like Juwan, Haslem, and Stackhouse given deals to just sit on the bench basically.

[IBetYou]

He gets no pity from me. Serves him right. Immensely talented but bad attitude. Got many coaches fired, including the great Furious George. I would go out on a limb and say the injuries are in part due to conditioning. Fat FV(K.

[IBetYou]

I'm completely dominating this forum at the moment. 3 out of the last 5 threads have whom posting last? Yours truely.

[kingdom]

And his general attitude. Consider Durant... he had teams falling over themselves trying to sign him in spite of his injury. He's not on that level obviously but the point is you can wait on a guy that shows high character.

lol on durant getting paid on character. i think it's more the wicked jump shot.

[JIBBBY]

Same leg as torn achilles?

You do tend to lean on the good leg after a severe injury on the other.. Other leg then gets stress and injured.

Mental shiiit is real after injury.. Always in the back of your mind.. Brain has alot to do with future injuries after the first major one.

[IBetYou]

lol on durant getting paid on character. i think it's more the wicked jump shot.

^^^relative to Cousins he has character.

[kingdom]

^^^relative to Cousins he has character.

I always thought cousins just cried on the court alot and really hated being with the kings. i know in N.Orl he was decent and attitude wise was ok with warriors as well.

[IBetYou]

I always thought cousins just cried on the court alot and really hated being with the kings. i know in N.Orl he was decent and attitude wise was ok with warriors as well.

In Nawlins he was playing for a cuckold coach, while 2nd fiddle to Davis. In Oakland he thought he was winning a championship so he had to fall in line. Not a player that you could build around imo. Rasheed Wallace was that way. Needed to be on a team (Pistons) that was already a regular in the Eastern Conference finals without him, in order to behave like a pro.

[krk1030]

Why didn't he sign a big deal before Golden State???? Biggest lifetime regret ever.

Because he was coming off a torn.Achilles

[Sledge187]

I hate the Lakers but love Boogie. Poor guy has had some brutal injuries over last few seasons. He tore his achilles against my Rockets on a missed free throw that he had shot. Tried to follow his own miss with 8 seconds left.

[clockwise1965]

Third major injury in 2 years.

[KVB]

Same leg as torn achilles?

You do tend to lean on the good leg after a severe injury on the other.. Other leg then gets stress and injured.

Mental shiiit is real after injury.. Always in the back of your mind.. Brain has alot to do with future injuries after the first major one.

The achilles, the quad and the ACL, all left leg.

[cincinnatikid513]

Lakers may bring back a familiar face to replace DeMarcus Cousins

In the wake of DeMarcus Cousins’ torn ACL that will likely end his first season with the Los Angeles Lakers before it ever began, LA is down to one true center: JaVale McGee.
Searching for some extra depth down low, the Lakers may turn to a familiar, if infamous face.
According to a report from The Athletic’s Shams Charania, the Lakers are expected to request permission to talk to Dwight Howard, who is currently on the Memphis Grizzlies but is expected to be released. Howard had hinted last month that he would be open to returning to Los Angeles, despite the poor way his last stint ended.
Howard spent a single season with the Lakers in in 2012-13 after a blockbuster deal that involved four teams, 12 players and four draft picks. He saw a notable downtick in scoring and rebounding, and the Lakers only went 45-37. Howard left in the offseason to sign with the Houston Rockets.
Howard played well in three years with the Rockets, but he hasn't found a home since. He's spent each of the three last years on different teams

[lakerboy]

Lmao

[johnnyvegas13]

I went and checked the atl minnyyy line

Ohhhhhh demarcusss fattassss oh ok

[gauchojake]

Lmao

I was thinking about who they could bring in to play the 5 and was like nooooooooooooooooooooo

[sosawestbrook]

"People don't take that quad injury serious enough. I know first hand. Dealing with it now. You have to start from ground zero. No basketball, no conditioning. Let that shit completely heal. Then get it strong as possible. And all the muscles surrounding it. All the boring shit. If not you'll keep re tearing it. And/or injuring other areas from over compensating."

- Wilson chandler

[KVB]

[IBetYou]

Howard looked a lot different last season, in the brief time he was available. The famous muscles were gone -lost weight to improve his agility. Effectively lost the one good thing he had left ...that being the strength to push people around.

[lonegambler23]

lol that hack

[DOM-Ganador]

JOAKIM NOAH. Dwight "fukkin" Howard.

Who`s next??? Greg Oden. George Mikan.

BronBron going to come out strong, first sign of trouble, he packs it in.
Why?? #1 he is a frontrunner who can still be great, but 82 out West will take its toll mentally as much as physically.
#2. He is heading towards American Oligarch status. Soon to be a billionaire.

[NardVa]

Nawlins could have paid him big money, they simply chose not to. He & Davis didn't play well together so it was a good decision. No other team wanted to invest long term in a trouble maker with a significant injury and a horrible work ethic.

AD and the Pelicans never won a playoff series until they got Cousins. To say they didn't play well together is laughable.

[rm18]

AD and the Pelicans never won a playoff series until they got Cousins. To say they didn't play well together is laughable.

What kind of post is this they won a playoff series with Cousins injured.

[rm18]

Pelicans played better with Mirotic than with Cousins also.

[eidolon]

Kid can't catch a break.

His legs are made of glass.

It was all down hill once he demanded the Chinese new year to not be celebrated because it was year of the monkey and said that was racist.

[IBetYou]

AD and the Pelicans never won a playoff series until they got Cousins. To say they didn't play well together is laughable.

Cousins getting injured was the catalyst that got them into the playoffs in the first place. Do some proper research, moron.

[lakerboy]

JOAKIM NOAH. Dwight "fukkin" Howard.

Who`s next??? Greg Oden. George Mikan.

BronBron going to come out strong, first sign of trouble, he packs it in.
Why?? #1 he is a frontrunner who can still be great, but 82 out West will take its toll mentally as much as physically.
#2. He is heading towards American Oligarch status. Soon to be a billionaire.

Hey bud how are you?
How is the Celtics plan coming along now on year 9?

[clockwise1965]

His career is over.