The Sacramento Kings find themselves in quite a mess. Rumors surfaced on Monday that the Kings might be exploring trade options for All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins. Later Monday evening, Vivek Ranadivé spoke with USA Today's Sam Amick and reiterated, again, that the Kings had no interest in trading DeMarcus. Roughly one hour later came the following bomb from Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski.
Yahoo Sources: Sacramento Kings coach George Karl pushing to trade All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins. http://t.co/wUoSkiDdUr
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) June 23, 2015
There's a lot to unpack here.