So maybe I should have written that DeMarcus Cousins would win NBA MVP this season, not make the All-NBA First Team. Cousins is clearly motivated and excited for this season, as shown by the scoring clinic he put on in a celebrity game Eric Bledsoe hosted in Alabama.
@boogiecousins dropped 91 tonight OMG
— BLAZEMOVING.com (@BlazeMovingLLC) August 9, 2015
Although the only confirmation we have of this epic feat is several tweets about it that Boogie himself retweeted, it’s still a pretty nice way for Cousins to start his first season since finally making an All-Star team. Boogie needs to play the best basketball of his life for the Sacramento Kings to make the playoffs for the first time since 2006.
That 91 points is more than double Boogie’s NBA career scoring night of 41 (which ended up as his second-best NBA game, according to my list), but hopefully this season Cousins’ smashes that 41 mark and reaches the 50s or 60s a few times. As much fun as it is to watch teamwork, there’s just something satisfying about seeing one player simply take over a game, and Boogie definitely has the talent to do so.
This game was obviously a bit looser than your average NBA contest (Bledsoe managed to score 85 points himself) but it’s still fun to imagine Boogie destroying everybody attempting to guard him in the paint and just going off for nearly 100 points.
Despite being nine points short of Wilt Chamberlain‘s record 100 point game, CrazyClyde gifted us with this photoshop of Boogie celebrating his accomplishment on the Sacramento Kings subreddit. Isn’t the internet great?
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Anyway, back to the NBA and more specifically the Kings. The last few weeks have included a lot of the right kind of DeMarcus Cousins news–him going off in a celebrity game and having a great time in Israel with his teammates is what you want to hear about Boogie, not some cryptic emoji tweets.
This isn’t the first or last time I’ve written it, but if everything goes right this Kings team could give a lot of good teams a good battle, at the very least. I don’t see championship aspirations for this squad just yet, but even a winning season would be a huge success considering the past few years of Sacramento basketball.
DeMarcus Cousins is the key to all of that. As much as keeping guys like Rajon Rondo and Darren Collison happy and motivated is crucial to the success of the Kings, Boogie is far more important. The other 14 guys on the roster could all be on the same page and working their tails off to win games, but without Cousins it wouldn’t amount to much success on the court.
But thankfully for the Kings it appears that Boogie doesn’t need much more extra motivation, and that he and George Karl appear to finally be getting along. A motivated Cousins on a team that’s meshing well under former Coach of the Year George Karl? That sounds like a recipe for a whole lot of wins.
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