Golden State Warriors: DeMarcus Cousins suffers another setback
Golden State Warriors center DeMarcus Cousins suffers another setback as it appears he will miss the remainder of the season after suffering a quad injury
Just when it seemed as if we were seeing a more and more comfortable DeMarcus Cousins, he might’ve suffered another setback on his road back to normalcy. In Game 2 against the Clippers, the Golden State Warriors all-star center left the game with what appeared to be a leg injury.
According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, there’s concerns that it is a season-ending quad injury that Cousins suffered on Monday night. Cousins is expected to undergo an MRI and the team will get a clearer sense of what the injury is after that is done.
However, no matter how you chop it up, this is not good news. Not for the Warriors, and certainly not for DeMarcus Cousins.
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Cousins showed flashes of his former self at various times this season, averaging 16 points, eight rebounds and four assists per game on 48 percent shooting from the field – in only 25 minutes per contest. The hope entering this season was that Cousins would turn in a good-to-great comeback season and then hit the market healthy for that long-term payday that he would’ve gotten in free agency last summer had it not been for his injury.
And he was well on his way to accomplishing just that. There’ no question that this potentially season-ending injury will complicate the summer further individually for Cousins.
At the same time, it hurts the Warriors on the floor, too. As the team was already thin in the front-court WITH Cousins healthy. This will now place more pressure on every other player to take some of the slack off the centers.
The good news, if there is any in this story, is even if Cousins has a season-ending quad injury, it’s not as bad as the injury in which he entered last year’s summer with. Cousins will still be a hot commodity heading into the summer.
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With that said, this is everything but an ideal scenario for DeMarcus Cousins and the Warriors.