The DeMarcus Cousins Debacle In Sacramento

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DeMarcus Cousins Debacle in Sacramento
Posted on Jun 23 2015 - 2:00pm by Griffin Connolly







Boston Celtics GM Danny Ainge and Head Coach Brad Stevens survey the scene at 2013 Summer League in Orlando, Florida. Mandatory Photo Credit: Getty Images



Imagine for a moment that the year is 1878, and a brand-spankin’-new steam-engine train, in all its Industrial Revolution-era glory, is chugging along the Union Pacific railroad somewhere on the Oklahoma panhandle, when all of a sudden, around the next bend, another locomotive emerges, headed in the opposite direction down the same set of tracks. The engineer gently tugs the lever for the brakes and his 130-ton beauty comes to a squeaky, comfortable halt in the middle of a sprawling cotton field. All danger appears to have been averted.

But something smells sinister. Imminent peril lingers in the air, like the stench of a rotting carcass during the dry season on the African savannah.

The engineer cups his hand above his eyes, shielding his face from the sun like a visor, and squints off into the distance. The other train doesn’t appear to be easing up. So he reaches back behind his shoulder, pulls the whistle lever, and the engine gives off a deafening Choo-Choo!! Still no sign of stopping. The approaching locomotive rumbles closer and closer. And closer and CLOSER. The engineer is in a full-on panic. His eyes dart to the left, then to the right, and he briefly considers — for a flash of a second — bailing from his post, but he knows he wouldn’t be able to live with himself and the eternal guilt of the demise of the 80-odd innocent souls filling the carriages. The barreling train is about three hundred yards away now and hasn’t curbed its momentum a single bit, so the engineer, his whole life flashing in front of him, let’s off one last frantic series of whistles as he cries out to the heavens pleading for their intercession. Choo-Choo!! CHOO-CHOO!! CHOO-CHOOOOOOOOOOO-BBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!


Ladies and gentlemen, the Sacramento Kings of the last decade. Train wreck after train wreck, broken promise after broken promise. The Kings have been in the lottery for nine straight years, and all they have to show for it is one rightfully unhappy, apparently unwanted star in DeMarcus “Boogie” Cousins. Eccentric team owner Vivek Ranadivé runs his team like an 11-year old boy named Chaz playing NBA 2k15, and it’s painful to watch, even for the non-Kings fan.

Unless, that is, if you happen to be one of the NBA’s other 29 majority owners. The Boston Celtics have been hot on the DeMarcus Cousins trail for two years now, and relations between the star and his “superiors” in Sacramento have never been more strained than they are right this moment. The knob has been turned, and it might be time to blow that thing off its hinges.

The Celtics have two first round picks this year and as many as four next year, and if Cousins decides he finally wants to pull the plug on his time in Sacramento, Boston GM Danny Ainge might just have enough ammunition to bring the disconsolate star to Bean Town.

But in the meantime, Ranadivé and his new henchman Vlade Divac — who hasn’t been around the NBA in any capacity in nearly six years — have to figure out a way to sort through the wreckage. It’s been ten solid years since Sacramento had a winning team to cheer for; the Boston Celtics have made two NBA Finals appearances and are in the process of completing a successful rebuild in that same allotment of time. Stay tuned, because the two franchises may shake hands sometime before next season.


bob
MY NOTE:  Nothing new, that's not why I posted it.  I posted it to, once again, highlight how losing to get a better draft pick doesn't mean anything, other than that you're a loser.


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Ironic to use a railroad analogy for a team whose home sports a great railroad museum.

Dabacle!  Disarray!  Destruction!  The three D's.  Oh the horror!  Just the kind of cataclysmic situation that's needed to force a possible opening where none previously existed.

Enter Danny on his white horse with whatever it takes to sweep through that opening and come away with Boogie riding behind him.

I wish!

Sam