Don’t feel bad about firing up the trade machine and sending DeMarcus Cousins all over the NBA. He doesn’t mind.
This isn’t to say he wants to leave the Sacramento Kings—though, let’s face it, he probably, if secretly, does. At any rate, he doesn’t mind the rumors, the ones he hears but doesn’t actually address. As he told reporters in advance of the Sacramento Kings’ Friday night tilt with the Boston Celtics, per CSNNE.com’s A Sherrod Blakely:
When told about there being many folks in New England who wouldn’t mind if he played for the Celtics, Cousins responded, “I heard.”
Because he has heard the trade rumors involving him for so many years, he doesn’t give them too much thought.
“It is what it is,” said Cousins who added that he’s never talked to his representatives or the team’s front office about a potential trade in which his name was brought up.
He added, “Most of the rumors come from people who want me on their team. It (trade rumors) doesn’t bother me.”
If trade rumors truly don’t impact Cousins, he is in the minority. People mention hypothetical deals and rumors as if actual peoples’ lives won’t be uprooted by switching teams. That takes a toll on the psyche.
Perhaps Cousins is just use to it all by now. After all, his name was been a fixture in the rumor mill for years. Plus, it also comes with the territory of being a superstar on a losing team. Speculation has a way of finding you time and again until your situation reaches a perceives resolution.
One thing Cousins doesn’t have to worry about is being traded to the Celtics. They signed Al Horford over the summer, and while both he and Cousins can play together in theory, it wouldn’t behoove Boston to mortgage its asset farm for another big—especially one who will reach free agency in 2018.
