Yeah. And the Kings Fan responded "That's what we've all been wanting to hear! The media gets in all of our heads and I apologize for letting them get to me." Cousins replied, "questioning the wrong guy buddy open your eyes"Anyone follow Cousins on Twitter and see that he just said he absolutely wants to stay? I have a hard time posting tweets from my phone.
- Adrian Wojnarowski
What the **** is this? We should NOT even consider any phone calls.
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League source familiar with Cousins' thinking: "DeMarcus wants to be a Laker. It’s up to the two sides to make a deal."
My guess is Cuz does want to be here, but in no way wants to play for Karl. He let that be known before Karl was hired, PDA even reportedly told him Karl wouldn't be a good fit for him, and the concerns from Cuz's camp have proven to be largely true. Karl has said little when a mic is in front of him which portrays being committed to Cuz and wanting to have a good relationship with him.
So it's a choice, either fire Karl or Cuz is going to force his way out through Fegan. I'd also say Cuz saying he wants to stay is him trying to publicly force Vlade/Vivek to make that decision on Karl. Vlade says he wants him here, Cuz says he wants to be here. Trade him and you look bad. And since Vlade/Vivek haven't fired Karl yet, Fegan is working on moving Cuz with his blessing up until Karl is gone.
And this again, all comes back to Vivek. He's either going to correct this swiftly or make yet another drastic mistake.
Woj would never say anything like this if it weren't true. WOJ does do favors for his sources, but he wouldn't do this. I highly doubt it. WOJ is the most reliable NBA guy and to put his credibility on the line? No.
Mike Florio, an NFL guy for PFT, first reported on the Harbaugh being shopped by the 9ers to the Browns. 9er fans were calling BS. Why would any big writer put their credibility on the line for a "source"?
The FO is lying to us.
The Woj bomb says exploring other options too. If cuz goes Karl needs to go too since we're signalling full rebuild at that point and he can go ruin some other franchise. Hopefully its for a lot of assets from Phili, not a smaller pile from LA and DEFINITELY not for a pile of mediocrity from denver
Anyone follow Cousins on Twitter and see that he just said he absolutely wants to stay? I have a hard time posting tweets from my phone.
I've always been in the side of proven player vs potential. I'll take Allstar over a draft pick that can bust, Randle who slid and NBA games played to season ending injury ratio is horrible, and clarkson who outplayed his draft spot but wasnt exactly a star until lakers loaded up the team with d leaguers. If lakers prize those assets over dmc, great. I want to keep our Allstar on our team anyways.I'm listening to ESPN LA right now and they've been talking about the rumor of Cousins to Lakers BS all show.
They are saying the Kings want everything for Boogie (#2, clarkson, randle, future picks). Lakers supposedly don't want to give up randle at all and are hesitate about giving up Clarkson. If that's where the teams are, nothing will get done.
If true, Vlade is asking for everything. Basically a lopsided deal is required in order to part with Cuz. That's exactly what he should ask for, if he did exchange frameworks.
There is no way Lakers will give up #2, randle, Clarkson & future picks. So its dead.
Cuz just posted on Twitter 40 minutes ago he absolutely wants to be a king. If we are to believe Woj then we are outright calling Divac AND Cousins liars. Plain and simple.
I just hate that it might be the ******* Lakers that get him.
Any team but the ******** Lakers.
Woj isn't saying that Cousins will be traded. Woj is reporting that the two sides are talking. That's a completely entire different thing.No,. Woj can do this precisely because it doesn't come back to bite him. Fegan is no doubt a major source, so Fegan asks him to turn up the heat on the Kings/Boogie, and Woj can say they are talking. Now Boogie doesn't end up getting traded, well from Woj's perspective, so what? Doesn't mean they weren't talking right?
What Woj wouldn't do is say Boogie WILL be traded tommorow, or some such, then that can be proven wrong. But "talking", "exchanging proposals", who's going to know/be able to prove that wrong?
And yes, if you add it up you could therefore add Woj Fegan and quite possibly Karl as all people pouring pressure onto Vlade. Many non-friends of the franchise. The thing is, and I've tried to explain this to people before, but pressure is largely an illusion. Nobody has any power here whatsoever except for Vlade (so long as he controls Vivek's ear). Everybody else is a helpless little maggot he can step on at will. He holds all the cards. The pressure will make you panic and forget that, but in the end aside form being annoyed at the gnats making up stories, there really is not a damn thing any of the parties not named Vlade can do if Vlade wants to keep Boogie. Hopefully in his long and varied career Vlade has come to realize stuff like that. When you have the final power, you don't let any lesser being browbeat you out of it. he shuold call up Fegan and ask him if he wants a job swabbing the toilets at the new Golden One.
This is a very valid point.He could just being saying those things so he looks like the innocent victim of this trade.
Just like Dan Fegan did with Dwight Howard in Orlando
I believe Tyreke wanted to be here as well.
Tomorrow will be a day we will never forget, could be historic. Good thing I have the day off.
**** THE LAKERS
**** THE LAKERS