Cousins is an embarrasment to this team, this city. End of story.
That is the embarrassment in all this. The tall poppy syndrome is alive and well in Sacramento's fan base. Hey let's have a bunch of choir boys on our team and if they are not superstars of the league we will also find a way to destroy them and drive them away and if we get a superstar talent, lets destroy them because they are competitive and intense and are not clean imaged goody two shoes!
Fans are a fickle, uneducated lot who act like they have never made a mistake in their life but are happy to bring up everybody's dirty laundry and assassinate them for it. You know, sometimes I ask myself if those types even deserve a team to start of with because for them, no hall of famer would have been good enough. Jordan would have been driven out of town for being an ***, Magic would have been destroyed for being a play boy and not a good role model. Shaq would have been driven out of town because of his personality. Kobe would have been hang because he can't keep it in his pants and for being an *** and a bad team mate. Duncan would have been too boring and too plain, KG would have been too intense and a big ***.
Where the **** does it stop?! Superstars are arrogant ****s who take no prisoners and rub people up the wrong way. It is what gives them an edge, an advantage and an aura of invincibility. Get used to it if you want a winning team otherwise find a lawn balls team to follow. This is a physical game for men and the intensity and high competitiveness is the key to success. Tracy McGrady could never get it done because he was a placid winnie. He had no desire nor competitiveness to take it to the max.
Cousins has that. He is the only one on this team that has that. It is what separates him from his team mates and it is what makes him the foundation of this franchise. He will mature. He is an intense young man that will have to learn how to control his emotions and that will come with time and winning. Remember KG punched a team mate in practice because he dunked on him. He is known to be a dickhead but he is one of the all time greats and the key reason who Boston won a championship. Kobe is anything but a model team mate but guess what, he is arguably the best player since Michael Jordan and let's not even start taking about Michael Jordan himself!
Bottom line is, until fickle "fans" learn to appreciate what they have, they will never be happy so let it go and appreciate the talent that the guy has. And please can people stop talking about role models for kids?! It's a washed up excuse! The only role models kids should have are their parents! If you want your kids to have role models that are sportsmen and public figures then you are the one with the problem and not those people you are accusing of not being good people or embarrassment.