DeMarcus Cousins suffered a left quad injury during the first quarter of the Warriors’ game against the Clippers on Monday night will undergo an MRI on Tuesday, Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN tweets. Cousins suffered the non-contact injury while making a steal. If the injury is serious, it would naturally be a major blow to Golden State’s quest for a third straight championship. The Warriors signed Andrew Bogut late in the season and his role would grow if Cousins misses significant time.
We have more from the Western Conference:
- The Grizzlies may be more focused on front office hires than filling their head coaching vacancy, David Cobb of the Memphis Commercial Appeal reports. J.B. Bickerstaff was fired and head of basketball operations Chris Wallace was re-assigned to a scouting position last week. Jason Wexler was promoted to team president and Zach Kleiman was named executive VP of basketball operations. “Trending that way,” Wexler told Cobb about the need to fill out the front office before hiring a coach. “But at the same time, I’m not definitely saying that we’ll have a full front office as we move through the coaching search. There will be a little bit of dual-tracking, but focusing a little bit more heavily on the front office out of the gate.” There’s been no talk yet about potential candidates, as we detail in our Head Coaching Search Tracker.
- Kings GM Vlade Divac hinted at a disconnect between himself and former coach Dave Joerger during Luke Walton‘s introductory press conference on Monday. Divac, who played with Walton on the Lakers 14 seasons ago, commented that he hired someone who was “on the same page” with him. “I think coaching is the toughest job in the NBA,” he told Noel Harris of the Sacramento Bee and other media members. “Having somebody who is behind you to work together, be on the same page and share the same philosophy about the game is definitely going to help both of us.”
- David Griffin, who was hired over the weekend to run the Pelicans’ front office, received assurances from the franchise that it would bring in reinforcements to its basketball staff, Scott Kushner of the New Orleans Advocate reports. The front office, including the scouting department, executive staff and developmental arm, will be expanded. Griffin might still hire a GM and several assistant GM to work beneath him, though he will be the ultimate decision-maker on basketball moves, Kushner adds.
The Warriors will be fine this series without Cousins, though they could use him against Houston. Mostly, I feel bad for Cousins, he’s waited so long for the playoffs.
They weren’t fine in Game 2. I don’t think the Clips will win the series, but I could see them taking at least another game or two. Which in turn could make the Warriors tired for the potential Rockets series.
Nop
Warriors gave up 90 points second half
Played with no hearts
Very sloppy and careless
Now other NBA
Team need to learn from warriors
Need to be strong on middle defense
Today warriors had zero
No cousins or bogut
No one play middle defense
Common Steve kerr
You didn’t make adjustments
You terrible
Hope this is wake up call
Or will be over probably next round
Interesting poem structure.
The man went haiku on us! Poem titled “You terrible”.
Clippers in 6
Thus game is very stupid game
Stupid coaching
( other team score 44 in third )
And Steve Kerr not made adjustments
All players very stupid
Just toying with opposites team
Need to take other team seriously
Warriors think Cousins tore his quad. Ouch.
Ohhh boooy! That really sucks!!!
The two injuries suffered by Cousins have probably cost him nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in salary. He was clearly going to be a max guy last year before his Achilles injury and this injury will probably force him to take another 1 year “make good” deal. He is the biggest example why players should not turn down extensions. Yes, the potential is always there to make a little more, but the downside is MUCH larger than the upside.
Sure, but sometimes you have to bet on, and believe in yourself… Sucks that it hasn’t worked out for him.
Yes, but this is not one of those cases. This is a case of greed. Taking a $120 million contract now is better than waiting 2 years to sign for at most $40 million more. The upside is basically a slightly larger pile of money. The downside is where he is now. Yes, 40 million dollars is a lot of money, but it’s not really necessary to someone that already has enough money to live 3 lifetimes. Self confidence is wonderful, but unnecessary foolish risks is not.
Happy to see Luke land with an up and coming organization emerging stability and some good young players. He’s a good dude and deserves better than what he went thru with that embarrassment down south.