One AND ONLY Cousins trade rumors thread

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Bricklayer

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Nothing could stop me supporting this team.

Very heavy heart if cuz goes. Certainly my lowest point for many many years supporting this team.

Its just a franchise in the end. An entirely voluntary association. In the internet and League Pass era one that aside from the the last locals with season tickets can be easily swapped out and replaced with a different one once you detest the people associated with the original one enough. You've got to have something to be proud of, otherwise what's the point?
 
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Its just a franchise in the end. An entirely voluntary association. In the internet and League Pass era one that aside from the the last locals with season tickets can be easily swapped out and replaced with a different one once you detest the people associated with the original one enough.
Welcome to unfandom.

I came to the Kings with Jimmer, stuck around for Cousins. If he gets traded, the only thing tying me to the team is this board. Maybe that's enough. I hope I don't have to find out.
 

Bricklayer

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Welcome to unfandom.

I came to the Kings with Jimmer, stuck around for Cousins. If he gets traded, the only thing tying me to the team is this board. Maybe that's enough. I hope I don't have to find out.
I truly don't know if this place would survive. Its just ridiculous. We've hung on and on and on waiting for the winds to change while all of our principal powers that be have gone through life change after life change and the membership rolls have slowly eroded. Friends and posters have come on and gone, whole generations of them. As Bosnian noted, he was in 2nd grade the last time we won anything. And in the end this ridiculous franchise just will not stop being ridiculous and may end up delivering a final blow. I've seen what happens to old fan boards once they become ghost towns. Its a sad thing, particularly when you are one of the boards that has survived since near the dawn of the internet and should be celebrating a 20yr anniversary in a few years.
 
This is infuriating! With Stein and Woj on-board with this story, this thing has legit legs. WTF is Karl doing? He's a damn moron. Vlade needs to step in, more than he's already done, and refute these claims. He then needs to send a cease and desist letter to Karl and/or fire the bastard.
 
If Cousins goes? I'm done.

And, nothing personal, but I hope this board, and the franchise go up in flames because of it. But at least Sacramento will have gotten an arena out of it, for shows and stuff.
 
count me as one who's gone if cuz goes.
The smartest caller on radio, ken, just called CD. His main point was the best. The celtics and lakers have one thing in common. They never trade a top 10 player until that player has given all he can give. getting rid of a top 10 player always results in that team getting worse.
 
Well I figured it would take another disappointing season, turns out Karl and Fagan are impatient. After a nearly a decade of abuse just please do me one last favor, don't make him a Laker. It makes sense, things being the way they are, but come on it's just too cruel of a final blow. I'm prepared to become a obnoxious league pass bandwagoner, but some lines can never be crossed.
 
CD confirmed that Cuz's people requested a trade privately about a month ago with preferred teams.

Can't really blame Cuz at all for that. If Vlade finds a way to fix this, seriously, he's GM of the year.
 
Clearly Cuz wants to go if that is true and I've no reason to doubt what CD is saying at this point.

In which case the only way to fix this is to trade him, or ask Karl to leave.

There is nothing else they can realistically do.
 
If we trade cousins and keep Karl forget about me buying tickets or merch for the next decade. Also if we trade cuZ, I'd rather trade him to some bottom feeder team for a bag of chips than see him go to the Lakers or Denver
 
Woj is the most reputable insider in sports so he's not gonna make up crap for clicks and risk losing credibility.

Plus other insiders like Stein have also heard same thing.

This has legitmate legs.
 
My money is still that Vlade gets Cousins to buy into at least one more year and if things don't improve he will trade him. Winning (or at least improving) cures all. Let the salivating fans of other teams and media have their little fit this week. They'll be back to talking about the draft by tomorrow. It's still not time to panic and the Kings still have a ton of leverage with 3 years left on his deal. Also, the idea that people can't work together when there is tension is absurd. Life is tension.
 
Woj is the most reputable insider in sports so he's not gonna make up crap for clicks and risk losing credibility.

Plus other insiders like Stein have also heard same thing.

This has legitmate legs.
Stein is very close to Woj, and everyone else is a repeated user of "multiple sources".
The way Woj reported about PDA in Sacramento still leaves some chance it's just a weasel, but there is at least some smoke obviously, and in the end it might just be Boogie's agency.:(
 
This is a real bummer, jesus. If they can get him to stay by firing Karl then the choice is obvious, reach out to Thibs and see if he can help right the ship. If not, then I just hope they don't make him a laker and we get what he's worth in return.
 
I'm a lurker here and I would prefer to wait and see how things turn out before letting emotions take over, but that's some really unpleasant stuff. I'm trying to figure out, how this team went from being saved from relocation (when future seemed bright) to this situation. Hopefully things will get better.
 
The question now should be... why the heck can't Karl get along with Cuz or why can't he tailor an offense that best utilizes Cuz?

It has seemed for months that Karl wants to rebuild the team he had in Denver. If the rumors are true, he may simply be too much of an egomaniac to even try to get along with Cousins after his past issues with star players like Melo. That's a very bad look on Karl.

Frankly, if Karl gets fired again, he is done. No one is going to hire him again and he can kiss chasing Nellie goodbye.

Its not impossible to fire Karl. He doesn't really have that much leverage because he also don't want to get fired again before his first full season starts.

If it comes down to it, $12 million is not much in the NBA these days and Karl is expendable. I know Vivek is not a billionaire but he's got to make the correct long term decision.

Hire a coach that is on the same page as your head of basketball operations.
 

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CD confirmed that Cuz's people requested a trade privately about a month ago with preferred teams.

Can't really blame Cuz at all for that. If Vlade finds a way to fix this, seriously, he's GM of the year.
And Vlade has been adamant about not trading Cousins. So which is the lie and which is the truth?
 
I think at this point we can all agree that this isn't some media spin. Whether or not it's as severe as some are making it out to be, there is most certainly something going on. That we can be sure of. Shame that Cousins went from a coach he loved and trusted, to an interim coach, and now to a coach that is actively trying to trade him. Without even having him for more than 1/4th of a season.
 
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