Cousins attempts to physically intimidate writer

[The Beam King]

look I understand the concept of this click-bait/anoymous sources era of sports reporting and how frustrating that might be for players but Cousins needs to accept that he is a professional and he needs to carry himself that way. Ignore the guy, address via agents, or whatever other means for him to get the point but don't try and intimidate he guy physically or with with words. That type of stuff gets you tossed out some bars let alone in a place of business.

Could it be not an either/or thing but rather both are at fault here. Furillo for being a historical douchebag of a journalist and boogie for being overreactive and unprofessional?

[dockingsched]

http://www.sportingnews.com/nba/news/demarcus-cousins-sacramento-kings-bee-media-fight-tmz-club/4g4g22rvwqud179v4sivftrjz

Just wanted to post this. A solid, balanced take. Maybe both sides are wrong here? I mean, Boogie shouldn't have done this, but the guy clearly wrote an article intended solely to rile up people and vilify these 2 more than necessary. I tend to lean toward Cousins's side in it.

That piece just like every other sensible opinion out there states that including the report about the incident that also involved his brother was fair, so I have no idea how this results in "being on Cousins' side". Cousins himself said his issue is in bringing up his brother, that he doesn't care what they write about himself, just keep his family out of it. Unfortunately for Cousins, there was nothing wrong with bringing up the incident with his brother so his entire complaint has no validity.

What it continues to be about is Cousins being unjustifiable upset about his brother being included in they story or perhaps he's actually upset about how how they're treating he himself and is using this protecting his brother angle as cover to lash out at the writer.

[Boof]

My god at the people cheerleading cousins for "putting reporters in their place." This is some disturbing stuff to read.

Kinda need to see a video or some other opinions to be honest. How do we know he isn't exaggerating the incident? Not saying this guy is a dirtbag, I don't know him at all but, there are a lot of scumbags in the media.

[Winsome Gerbil]

Wow. Dave Joerger just put the reporters on blast:

[j-ragg]

Joerger sticking up for his guy is a good thing, good for him. That's all I'll say on that haha.

[SkyHook]

Those who keep throwing around the word 'slander' have a deep misunderstanding of the English language. https://youtu.be/G2y8Sx4B2Sk

[bigbreakfast]

My god at the people cheerleading cousins for "putting reporters in their place." This is some disturbing stuff to read.

it's almost as if half of the posters in this thread never graduated high school and have no real life experience on how to deal with conflicts. I imagine that type of thinking is how we get road rage videos.

it really doesn't matter if what the reporter did was defensible or not, the bottom line is Cousin's complete inability to deal with **** like this repeatedly has likely turned off alot of teams and GMs in the league, and probably will cost him in millions of potential earnings and limit his future options.

[G35]

You know how many people are making excuses for Cousins and he is only the way he is because of his environment. I think the same thing could be said for the Kings organization that they would be better if not for having Demarcus on their roster. They could move forward with some sort of plan without having all these distractions from their franchise player. I think the most exciting team to watch will be whoever ends up with Demarcus; there is going to be immense pressure for him to prove he is not the schleprock he appears to be and the team will be giving him a long leash because they took a chance on him.

I personally would not give anything for Demarcus. Not even a 2nd rd pick and I'm not exaggerating. I would rather beat Demarcus than play with him or cheer for him......

[jason bourne]

Just my 2¢ but this should blow over. No question Cousins deserves to get some kind of punishment or fine, but he may have a point when the reporter includes his family in his article. What does his family have to do with anything here? The writer sounds like a scumbag, so Cousins doesn't have to talk with this one reporter.

[Pharaoh]

Wow. Dave Joerger just put the reporters on blast:

Says it all really.

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[HartfordWhalers]

Cousins acted completely normally, and tis is all just a national media driven tale to make him look bad.

If ESPN would cover the Mav's full time with a beat reporter, Dirk would be doing this to Stein. But ESPN knows that, and thus has Stein and Tim MacMahon not there every game so they can defuse the tense situations with Dirk.

[Prius]

Cousins acted completely normally, and tis is all just a national media driven tale to make him look bad.

If ESPN would cover the Mav's full time with a beat reporter, Dirk would be doing this to Stein. But ESPN knows that, and thus has Stein and Tim MacMahon not there every game so they can defuse the tense situations with Dirk.

What's the story between Stein and Dirk?

[TOMSPY77]

There really is no debate.

Cousins is in the public eye.
Cousins gets paid very well to play a game.
Cousins also is the one getting involved in these altercations.
Cousins has many rules of conduct, behavior, and performance he must follow, but they make him filthy rich.

A reporter writes an article on a valid subject matter using sources available to him, as it is Cousins job to win games, it is the writer's job to write pieces that will generate readers for the paper.

The only thing that is wrong is Cousins acting like a fool, granted we are all human, but considering it created threads like this and could hurt future millions possibly, it was not worth it, no matter what was said.

[Kilo]

The editors defense was silliness. Trying to paint the reporter as some hero who was in grave danger is so cringe. The reporter is basically an internet troll with lockerroom access, trying to rile up Boogie to make a story. Just like back in the day with Jim Rome and "Chris" Everett - all these weasels want to make themselves part of the story.

[MartinToVaught]

Wow. Dave Joerger just put the reporters on blast:

Of course the Kings' coach is going to defend Cousins. That whole franchise is totally beholden to him at this point and they're petrified that he's going to leave them. It still doesn't justify his behavior.

[dc]

Of course the Kings' coach is going to defend Cousins. That whole franchise is totally beholden to him at this point and they're petrified that he's going to leave them. It still doesn't justify his behavior.

They've hitched their wagon to him. Vlade Divac once asked Cousins if he wanted George Karl fired.

Then there was the incident when Cousins cussed out Karl in front of the whole team. He was suspended one game.

Cousins' response to the suspension? He said the suspension came from George Karl and not the organization. And the Kings organization said nothing to refute Cousins' claim. Whoever was really responsible for handing out the suspension isn't even the point. The point is, after Cousins' remark, the Kings did absolutely nothing to back up the coach.

It's pretty clear now that anyone coaching the Kings has to bend over backwards to Cousin's if he wants to stay relevant in the organization.

Dave Joerger, if he wants to stay relevant as the head coach, pretty much can't say anything other than what he said.

[bmurph128]

I think LeBron is the only person that could get Cousins in check.

[codydaze]

Of course the Kings' coach is going to defend Cousins. That whole franchise is totally beholden to him at this point and they're petrified that he's going to leave them. It still doesn't justify his behavior.

They've hitched their wagon to him. Vlade Divac once asked Cousins if he wanted George Karl fired.

Then there was the incident when Cousins cussed out Karl in front of the whole team. He was suspended one game.

Cousins' response to the suspension? He said the suspension came from George Karl and not the organization. And the Kings organization said nothing to refute Cousins' claim. Whoever was really responsible for handing out the suspension isn't even the point. The point is, after Cousins' remark, the Kings did absolutely nothing to back up the coach.

It's pretty clear now that anyone coaching the Kings has to bend over backwards to Cousin's if he wants to stay relevant in the organization.

Dave Joerger, if he wants to stay relevant as the head coach, pretty much can't say anything other than what he said.

Or maybe he's just sticking up for him because the reporters at Sac Bee (outside of Jason Jones) are a bunch of hacks? Seriously, have you read any Ailene Voison articles, or columns by Furillo? All they do is attack Cousins. They blatantly and explicitly call him fat, an **** and bully when they are actually the bullies. I'm not justifying what Cousins did but there's going to be a breaking point when you are consistently attacked by your local media of all people. And then you get this article painting Furillo as someone whose life was in danger and totally embellishing the sympathy for him to further villify Cousins. Everything Joerger said is 100% true so I don't know why the angle of "he has to say this to not get fired" is even relevant.

[Duke4life831]

Are people really trying to defend Cousins on this? I get not bringing up family and all that but this is not one of those situations. Cousins was in a nightclub incident, so the reporter just brought up a previous nightclub incident that Cousins was involved in and in that prior incident his brother was arrested. So I think bringing up his brother was more than justified. Maybe if Cousins doesn't want his brother to be brought up, maybe he shouldn't continue to get into public incidents.

I'm a big defender of Cousins game, but come on you can't defend him when it comes to the off court stuff he does. I get he does a lot of good in the community, but the dude has a major temper problem and every year has something going on around him. Maybe it's time to stop with the excuses for him and just realize the dude constantly brings on all this negative stuff upon himself.

[dc]

Or maybe he's just sticking up for him because the reporters at Sac Bee (outside of Jason Jones) are a bunch of hacks? Seriously, have you read any Ailene Voison articles, or columns by Furillo? All they do is attack Cousins. They blatantly and explicitly call him fat, an **** and bully when they are actually the bullies. I'm not justifying what Cousins did but there's going to be a breaking point when you are consistently attacked by your local media of all people. And then you get this article painting Furillo as someone whose life was in danger and totally embellishing the sympathy for him to further villify Cousins. Everything Joerger said is 100% true so I don't know why the angle of "he has to say this to not get fired" is even relevant.

Or maybe those reporters have seen his act long enough (going on to year 7) and are calling him out for what he is: a bully who throws tantrums at officials, players and coaches.

Guys with Cousins' attitude problems typically don't last as long as they do in one spot. The Kings have been in the position of essentially being his enabler because he's an all-star center and pretty much all they have. If Cousins was merely a good, not great, player he'd have been kicked to the curb by multiple teams by now.