Imagine this story involving Kings General Manager Vlade Divac: It starts with sports outlets across America acknowledging that they were wrong when they crushed Divac for trading DeMarcus Cousins nearly two years ago.
Remember that moment in February of 2017? The Kings were a bad team with a great player in Cousins. He piled up big individual numbers while the Kings were awful collectively. Away from the Kings’ arena, Cousins was lauded by some for occasionally smiling in their direction and annually donning a Santa hat to give away toys to kids. Inside the arena, Cousins was divisive, bullying, a nightmare.