Why honor Cousins?

[Npliam]

Marc Spears tweeted earlier that the Kings where planning to honor Cousins in some way. If it's more than a video montage, I hope they pick the right person to handle it. It'll be interesting to see if Vlade and Vivek will approach Cousins and Boogie's reaction. This is one of the main reasons why this is a national TV game.

What? Why? He was not good for the franchise. Silly to Honor him.

Even if you liked him as a player and thought that the Kings screwed up his tenure in Sacramento there is still no reason to honor him. He didn't accomplish a thing while he was in Sacramento.

 

[VF21]

MOD NOTE: Npliam posted this in the game thread right before game time. I deleted it and said we could revisit it in a different thread. I've undeleted it and put it in the proper forum.

 

[63royals]

What? Why? He was not good for the franchise. Silly to Honor him.

Even if you liked him as a player and thought that the Kings screwed up his tenure in Sacramento there is still no reason to honor him. He didn't accomplish a thing while he was in Sacramento.

It's great that you're a civil Jazz fan -- it's nice to interact with fans of other teams without boring smack talk. In this case, however, you're all wrong. He's one of the best players we've had, and this franchise hasn't had very many. It isn't DMC's fault that management couldn't put a better team on the court with him. If the standard for when are you allowed to celebrate the return of former players is their having won a conference championship, we couldn't celebrate anything could we? The one time in my lifetime (and I'm 66) that we should have won, the refs stole if from us in 2002. DMC gave us many great moments and bonded with most of the fan base. That's more than enough.

 

[VF21]

Why honor Cousins? Because we're Kings fans and it's what we do when one of ours returns.

 

[VF21]

It's great that you're a civil Jazz fan -- it's nice to interact with fans of other teams with out boring smack talk. In this case, however, you're all wrong. He's one of the best players we're had, and this franchise hasn't had very many. It isn't DMC's fault that management couldn't put a better team on the court with him. If the standard for when are you allowed to celebrate the return of former players is their having won a conference championship, we couldn't celebrate anything could we? The one time in my lifetime (and I'm 66) that we should have won, the refs stole if from us in 2002. DMC gave us many great moments and bonded with most of the fan base. That's more than enough.

 

[kingsboi]

Why honor Cousins? Because we're Kings fans and it's what we do when one of ours returns.

so the Kings are honoring Evans when he returns?

 

[VF21]

so the Kings are honoring Evans when he returns?

Again?

 

[kingsboi]

Again?

when was the first time?

 

[dude12]

What? Why? He was not good for the franchise. Silly to Honor him.

Even if you liked him as a player and thought that the Kings screwed up his tenure in Sacramento there is still no reason to honor him. He didn't accomplish a thing while he was in Sacramento.

Off the court, he was a tremendous civic asset to the youth in the area. On the court, most of the people liked the guy and appreciated what he did.

 

[PHXSUNSFAN]

so the Kings are honoring Evans when he returns?

Was IT ever honored?

 

[pshn80]

Cousins was a long time Sacrament King, one of our best, pretty nice guy, and was a loyal King. He was here much longer than the other ex-Kings mentioned in this thread. A toast to DeMarcus. Get well soon.

 

[Dime Dropper]

Was IT ever honored?

No, nor should he have been. Comparing IT's time here to Cousins' is ridiculous.

 

[kingsboi]

Was IT ever honored?

should he be? He hasn't done as much as Cousins has for this franchise from a statistical point of view, he left on a sour note and rightfully so, Pete was the main culprit.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Cousins wanted to be here and the inability to build around him was our failure not his.

I will always root for Boogie.