{"id":739114,"date":"2022-02-22T19:03:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T00:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=739114"},"modified":"2022-02-22T19:03:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T00:03:45","slug":"report-nuggets-to-sign-demarcus-cousins-for-the-rest-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/news\/nba\/report-nuggets-to-sign-demarcus-cousins-for-the-rest-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Nuggets to Sign DeMarcus Cousins For the Rest of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=DeMarcus+Cousins\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=DeMarcus+Cousins\" target=\"_blank\">DeMarcus Cousins&#8217;<\/a> 10-day contract with the Nuggets expired over the weekend, NBA insider Shams Charania reported that Denver plans to re-sign Cousins to a deal for the rest of the season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources: The Denver Nuggets are planning to sign center DeMarcus Cousins to a rest-of-season contract in the coming days. Cousins\u2019 final 10-day expired over the weekend. He\u2019s averaged 6.1 points and 6.3 rebounds with Denver, where he\u2019s reunited with Michael Malone.<\/p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1496241178794201091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Cousins averaged 6.1 points and 6.3 rebounds per game in eight games with the Nuggets. He&#8217;s signed 10-day contracts with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/report-milwaukee-bucks-and-demarcus-cousins-agree-to-one-year-deal\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/report-milwaukee-bucks-and-demarcus-cousins-agree-to-one-year-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bucks<\/a> and Denver throughout the 2021-2022 campaign as COVID-19 has devastated the League nearly all season. In 17 games with Milwaukee, Boogie averaged 9.1 points and 5.8 boards per game, earning five starts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four-time All-Star has moved around the League since suffering devastating leg injuries with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/demarcus-cousins-achilles-injury\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/demarcus-cousins-achilles-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pelicans<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/report-warriors-fear-demarcus-cousins-tore-his-left-quad\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/report-warriors-fear-demarcus-cousins-tore-his-left-quad\/\" target=\"_blank\">Warriors<\/a>, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/demarcus-cousins-suffers-possible-knee-injury\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/demarcus-cousins-suffers-possible-knee-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lakers<\/a>, although he never donned the purple-and-gold. The 31-year-old Kentucky product has played for the Kings, Pelicans, Warriors, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/rockets-demarcus-cousins-agree-to-deal\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/rockets-demarcus-cousins-agree-to-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\">and the Rockets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After DeMarcus Cousins&#8217; 10-day contract with the Nuggets expired over the weekend, NBA insider Shams Charania reported that Denver plans to re-sign Cousins to a deal for the rest of the season. Sources: The Denver Nuggets are planning to sign center DeMarcus Cousins to a rest-of-season contract in the coming days. Cousins\u2019 final 10-day expired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":447,"featured_media":739116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62700,18,63826,62493],"tags":[607,111],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-739114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-denver-nuggets","category-nba","category-news","category-newswire","tag-demarcus-cousins","tag-denver-nuggets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739117,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739114\/revisions\/739117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739114"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=739114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}