The Warriors are about to be ridiculous.. I mean REALLY Ridiculous.
After receiving the feed from Kevin Durant, DeMarcus Cousins rumbled through the paint, lifted his 6’11 270 pound frame toward the rim and threw down an emphatic dunk for his first basket since tearing his Achilles last season.
That’s game.
Achilles: 0
#Warriors’ DeMarcus Cousins on his first bucket, a slam dunk - “I’m just glad to know I can still dunk.” pic.twitter.com/wmxmHNRTks
— Tomer Azarly (@TomerAzarly) January 19, 2019
In that dunk was 12 months of agony in the rehab process, excitement of the possibilities of playing with his new squad, and the anxiety of stepping on the court again after sustaining and surviving one of the most severe injures in sports.