標籤: DeMarcus

Recently, the NBA announced it would void a technical foul on Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic during the team’s win over the Orlando Magic over the weekend. The technical foul would have been Doncic’s 16th incident of the year, which would have required an automatic suspension, but Doncic’s post-game clarification about the technical foul may have played a role in the league’s decision to void it.

One person who doesn’t agree with the league’s decision is former NBA great DeMarcus Cousins, who recently went on FanDuel’s “Run It Back” show to express his thoughts.

“My issue is not with Luka Doncic. … If it’s Draymond Green, he’s not getting canceled,” Cousins, formerly of Run It Back on X, claimed on Twitter.

Indeed, Golden State Warriors power forward Draymond Green has gained quite a reputation as an argumentative player with referees, the other team, and sometimes with his Warriors teammates. This certainly plays a role in his perception, although some have argued that it actually works in the opposite way and gives the star long leeway when it comes to arguing with officials during games.

Doncic, meanwhile, is known to be a frequent complainer in his own right, facing heavy criticism from fans and pundits for his frequent scathing criticisms of referees, which often comes at the expense of playing defense or getting back in transition. However, Saturday’s case was a little different, as the technical foul originated from an interaction between Doncic and Magic big man Goga Bidaatje, with Doncic later claiming that Bidaatje booed his family, which led to the altercation.

In any case, Lakers fans are certainly happy that the technical foul was canceled and Doncic will be able to prepare for Monday night’s game against the Detroit Pistons, in which Los Angeles will try for its tenth consecutive win.

During the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the NBA set a record with 46 players participating. One of them was DeMarcus Cousins, who was then with the Sacramento Kings.

Ultimately, the Americans won the gold medal in a landslide. But what happened outside the court came to light.

During a performance with Carmelo Anthony in Brooklyn at 7 p.m. Cousins ​​reminisced with his Olympic teammates about how the team partied throughout the game.

“We were on fire … we drank every day,” Cousins ​​said.

“We were drinking responsibly,” Anthony said.

“Oh no!…I’ve never drank so much in my life,” Cousins ​​replied.

DeMarcus Cousins: “We were on fire…we drank every day.”

Carmelo Anthony: “We were drinking responsibly.”

DC: “Oh no!… I’ve never drank so much in my life.”

Melo and Boogie on the 2016 USA team were partying hard throughout the Olympicspic.twitter.com/eYwCW6npZj

– ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) 17 February 2026

It was during those Olympics that Cousins ​​and Anthony united for a clutch moment. In the final moments against France, Anthony converted a pair of 3-pointers, while Cousins ​​made some key putbacks for a 100–97 victory.

Additionally, Paul George and Drummond became an elite defensive force during the game against Serbia. It was his heroics that ensured the Americans came out on top 94-91.

Cousins ​​played in the NBA from 2010 to 2022. In total, he played for seven teams, including the Kings, New Orleans Pelicans, Houston Rockets, Denver Nuggets, Milwaukee Bucks, and Los Angeles Clippers.

His most recent professional stint came with the Guaynabo Mets of the Puerto Rican professional basketball league Baloncesto Superior Nacional. He also played in the T1 League in Taiwan and The League in Mongolia.

In addition to the Olympics, Cousins ​​represented Team USA at the 2014 FIBA ​​Basketball World Cup, where the Americans won the gold medal.

During his NBA career, he averaged 19.6 points and 10.2 rebounds per game.

The NBA All-Star Weekend festivities are currently taking place in Los Angeles, and Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic is among the participants in Sunday’s main event: the All-Star Game. Jokic was voted the starter for the game despite missing nearly a month due to a knee injury, and it remains to be seen whether the Nuggets star will put a little more effort into the game than in past years.

Also in attendance at the festivities this weekend was former NBA big man DeMarcus Cousins, Jokic’s teammate for a year with the Nuggets, and recently, the star weighed in on who would win in a one-on-one game between him and Jokic if both were in their prime.

“I think it’s an 11-11 tie, because I don’t think either one of us can stop the other one,” Cousins ​​said, according to Ricardo Sandoval of Newsweek, formerly of Newsweek on Twitter.

Indeed, neither Jokic nor Cousins ​​are known as lock-down defenders, but both possess supernatural offensive skills that can torment opponents.

Jokic shouldn’t necessarily be considered an isolated, one-on-one kind of player, having been criticized once this year for kicking out Peyton Watson in a last-second playoff game against the Dallas Mavericks, rather than doing so himself.

However, he is nearly unstoppable around the basket, and has turned himself into one of the league’s best three-point shooters.

Cousins, meanwhile, was a terror in his own right with the Sacramento Kings, intimidating opponents in the paint, and showing the ability to run the floor better than most big men in the league, as well as a feathery touch from the perimeter.

This will definitely be a fun matchup to watch.

In any case, the All-Star Game is scheduled to begin on Sunday at 5:00 PM ET.