Spurs Fans Put up Billboards to Recruit DeMarcus Cousins to San Antonio
By Michael Luciano
As the free agency market for former Golden State Warriors center DeMarcus Cousins continues to dry up, one location that has been gaining steam of late has been San Antonio, given Gregg Popovich's fondness for strong bigs and DeMar DeRozan's attempts to recruit Boogie.
Spurs fans have even put up billboards in San Marcos, showing Cousins photoshopped into a Spurs jersey and a line from a Brooks & Dunn song that references his nickname.
Billboard hunter @sweeptheleague has found the DeMarcus Cousins billboard. Way to go Rudy! #nba #gospursgo pic.twitter.com/Z7AedRQ66p
— JeffGSpursZone (@JeffGSpursZone) July 4, 2019
After putting up 16.3 points and 8.2 boards per game as the fourth scoring option on a Warriors team that made the Finals, Boogie still has plenty of gas left in the tank. However, his injury history and defensive struggles against faster teams that like to shoot made him less and less valuable with each passing year.
However, in a Popovich system that shot fewer threes than anyone last year and still vales the back-to-the-basket big man, Cousins would feel right at home.
Connecting some dots on DeMarcus Cousins to #Spurs rumors:
— RJ Marquez (@KSATRJ) July 3, 2019
1. DeMar DeRozan reaches out to Boogie via @ShamsCharania.
2. Rudy Gay played with DC in SAC.
3. Cousins now has same agent as Aldridge via @TheSteinLine.
4. Still have some money left with MLE...hmm? #NBAFreeAgency pic.twitter.com/0yGFgaJqNV
While it's been hard to watch the former best big man in the game struggle over the last year or so, Boogie has a home an prominent offensive role waiting for him in San Antonio.