Cleveland Cavaliers: Revisiting A Kevin Love – DeMarcus Cousins Trade

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However, basketball insider Steve Kyler of Basketball Insiders has a different perspective of what will happen when Cousins’ contract expires.

Because of the “designated veteran player extension“, the new CBA will allow the Sacramento Kings to pay Cousins far more than any other team, there is a stronger possibility that Cousins will opt to stay with the Kings rather than leave.

In addition,  with the team’s chances of improving through the draft and a trade of Rudy Gay, Cousins may very well be in a different environment soon. One with consistency and capable of winning a championship.

However, Cousins has never one any type of championship since he started playing organized basketball. That’s a factor that may play against the Kings franchise although Cousins will be eligible for an extension for up to 35.0 percent of next season’s salary cap.

Yet, there’s a possibility that Cousins might not resign with the team who trades for him; a team that will have to give up one of it’s best players, if not its best player, in a trade for Cousins. There are teams that could have the package necessary to acquire Cousins. Nonetheless, only a team having playoff success are going to entice Cousins to re-sign.

Those teams aren’t likely to give up the pieces that the Kings need to feel comfortable making a trade for Cousins. They’ll be wary of rocking the boat. Fixing the unbroken.

With Cousins’ volatile attitude and the cameras that will follow Cousins anywhere he goes after a trade, the team will have to be wary of the drama that surrounds Cousins and how it will affect their team chemistry.

Thus, a team has to have strong leaders, playoff success and the guts to trade for Cousins. If Cousins signs an extension, his contract will be so hefty the other team will have to give up two major players. All the while, Cousins will be putting up these types of numbers on a nightly basis, chipping in 1.5 blocks per game to boot.

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These are the types of number that give teams the incentive to make an offer the Kings can’t refuse.