Apparently the Kings are looking for productive veterans that can also stabilize their locker room.

I'd dangle Monroe for Cousins, but I'd try to leverage it into a bigger deal, add Tayshaun and/or Brandon Knight to the mix and see if we can get Tyreke Evans.

I'm not giving up on Knight, but we have too many scoring point guards and zero scoring wings.

Cousins is a big risk, but he'd potentially be even more devastating next to Drummond than Monroe.

I'm not sure if I'd pull the trigger on that type of mega-trade, but I'd think about it.

sounds about right, i'd consider getting a future pick to make up for giving one to Charlotte though too.

PS: If/when Cousins gets traded, I see the the Pistons getting him. Just a gut feeling, no inside info. They match up best for a deal.

Don't see the fit... both clogging the lane... using Cousins in a three way to get us a flex 4 that is not a liability on D makes more sense.

Cousins did play PF in Sacramento next to Dalembert for about half a season two years back. They actually won games then, too.

Is it bad that I'm just rooting for change now?
I don't even care if the team's better, or who they trade for. I don't care. Just give me some new faces. It's pretty tiring watching the same guys lose over and over.
I don't know if trading for Cousins is really that good for Detroit. I would still do it though. Can shit really be that much worse?

Apparently the Kings are looking for productive veterans that can also stabilize their locker room.

I'd dangle Monroe for Cousins, but I'd try to leverage it into a bigger deal, add Tayshaun and/or Brandon Knight to the mix and see if we can get Tyreke Evans.

I'm not giving up on Knight, but we have too many scoring point guards and zero scoring wings.

Cousins is a big risk, but he'd potentially be even more devastating next to Drummond than Monroe.

I'm not sure if I'd pull the trigger on that type of mega-trade, but I'd think about it.

You can't be serious! Cousins is a fuckin headache and Monroe is decent player that isn't a fuckin head case. Why would you want that disruptive POS on this team? I must be missing something.

I said I'd consider it, if it could net us more value than just cousins. It's worth exploring.

Cousins? Really? At least that's interesting! The season is just dragging along at this stage... can we just start Drummond already?

we have to find out first if Monroe and Drummond can play together, Monroe has to make the transition to PF (he really needs that mid range jumpshot - you cant have 2 bigs clogging the middle in todays NBA),if he cant make that transition i would be interessted in Cousins, but i am not sure Cousins would be a better frontcourt partner next to Dre than Moose

the kings are such a mess right now....wow!

According to former Kings beat writer Sam Amick, DeMarcus Cousins' reinstatement from suspension on Dec. 24 was "made unilaterally by the team's owners and went against the wishes and planned protocol of the team's front office."
Keith Smart was informed of the decision but was later "allowed" to bench Cousins for Wednesday's game, while GM Geoff Petrie, who has been with the Kings for 19 years, "was not a key part of the reinstatement process." Roughly speaking, this leaves us with a disgruntled (to be kind) franchise player who is being pressured to take the team's suggestion that he see a psychiatrist, a puppet coach whose rotations and game management defy logic, a GM who is reduced to a cipher now at the most critical junctures (and who is "all but certain" to leave the team after the season), and a pair of nouveau-broke millionaire owners who are trying to sell the Kings at an above-value price of $500 million on the pretext that a new owner could move it to a more lucrative market. At this point, the only dignified thing that could save the NBA's image here is for the other owners to pressure the Maloofs to sell the team to Sacto buyers.

I said I'd consider it, if it could net us more value than just cousins. It's worth exploring.

I really like Monroe. So there's that. Maybe I'm overrating him as a player. But one thing a young team doesn't need when rebuilding is a fuck head on the roster. Maybe I'm too hard on Cousins, but I'm not for making that trade unless, like you said, we get Tyreke and then can move Cousins, but then we'd be down a big from having Monroe and Dre.

Just my 2 cents.

On the other hand, Detroit would have the requisite young, inexpensive talent to send back to Sacramento if it were inclined to take a gamble on Cousins. Third-year emerging star Greg Monroe would certainly get the Kings' attention, as he did before the 2010 Draft. A league source says the Kings took Cousins instead on Westphal's behalf.

"Geoff preferred Greg Monroe" before the 2010 Draft, the source said. "But (Petrie) was a friend of Paul's and he was trying to help him win more right away...when Paul was there, he did a lot of things to try and help him win games, because (former coaches Eric) Musselman and (Reggie) Theus had been such disasters. Paul was a contemporary of Geoff's; he was a smart guy."

Except, Detroit has no interest in him. At least not anymore.

The Pistons certainly were intrigued with Cousins before the 2010 Draft, and tried to move up from the ninth spot to get him. But once Sacramento took him at five, Detroit went for the next highly-rated big on the board in Monroe, and has been quite happy it did so.

Now, the Pistons plan to build around Monroe and rookie center Andre Drummond. There is no chance Detroit would move Monroe and leave itself with Cousins and Drummond -- who, like Cousins, is immensely talented, but has his own growing up to do after a lackluster one-and-done season at Connecticut before entering last year's Draft.

http://www.nba.com/2012/news/features/david_aldridge/12/31/morning-tip-top-10-stories-2012/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt6a

I have no interest in Cousins - dude has some issues and I'd rather someone else have to suffer because of them.

He might have all the talent in the world but if his head ain't right that's not gonna matter.

And why would we consider giving up Monroe for him when Monroe apparently has already started to fill the leadership void? Doesn't make much sense to me

Cool, we can use this as the OGT tonight.

http://www.nba.com/2012/news/features/david_aldridge/12/31/morning-tip-top-10-stories-2012/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt6a

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DOWN GOES KNIGHT

JIMMER

Ha! Love that Billy Dee is hosting Star Wars night....


Are we about to let them walk back into this again?

Sloppy, we need to run some offense.

Fucking guy's name's Jimmer for chrissakes.

Like the classic Limp Bizkit song, we just keep on Rollin', baby. Ha!

He was just making a video.

My buddy said he saw Cousins and said he's fuckin HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE! I'd look up his stats if I wasn't so lazy and don't really give a shit. Too bad this cat is such a headcase. He'd fit right in with Zeke and the boys. The league has changed too much.