Former All-Star DeMarcus Cousins lately referred to as out former Pelicans normal supervisor Dell Demps when reflecting on his time on the group with Anthony Davis.
Cousins was traded to the Pelicans in 2017 after spending six seasons with the Kings. He sadly ruptured his left Achilles tendon after recording a career-high 36.2 minutes per recreation, and from Dec. 29 via Jan. 22.
The damage stored him off the court docket for over a yr after that, however the former massive man believes that if the entrance workplace had stored the crew collectively, they might have been contenders.
“I don’t suppose the yr that I blew my Achilles it will have occurred, however they might have stored that squad collectively, we undoubtedly would have made a run, at the very least by 12 months 2, I consider,” Cousins mentioned on Run It Again.
“However it’s some dumbass GMs on the market – shoutout to Dell Demps.”
Cousins was then requested as a follow-up if he thought that he and Davis may have been the very best duo in NBA historical past, had they stayed taking part in collectively for the Pels.
“In NBA historical past?” Cousins requested. “That’s robust to say. That’s robust to say while you’ve obtained guys like Tim Duncan and David Robinson as teammates and every thing they’ve achieved, however I believe we may have been within the dialog, and I undoubtedly suppose we had the expertise to even be talked about subsequent to these guys. However clearly, we ain’t accomplish sh*t, so it’s probably not nothin’ to speak about, however from a expertise side, I believe we both 1A, 1B or shut second.”
Cousins and Davis didn’t get one other probability to play alongside one another once more after that, since Boogie signed with the Warriors for the 2018-19 season, whereas Davis performed another season in New Orleans earlier than being traded to the Lakers for the 2019-20 marketing campaign.
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