We're back here got a lot to get to some news that has piled up

And then we're gonna make our way at least part of the way through the summer league performances for the Western Conference

I actually gonna tease this out will start with the

New Orleans Pelicans which are probably the most exciting team in all summer league and then go through an alphabetical order

After that, but let's start with the news and I think the place here is the sad news that DeMarcus cousins

tore his ACL while working out and

Very likely his season is ending. Yeah, it's it's incredibly disappointing for such a talented player who has just had now had his career

Completely sidetracked by injuries the Achilles then the torn quad and now now the ACL

I believe all three of those injuries occurred within 19 months and I mean the scariest one being first is in some ways better

But it but it still is a lot to take in and now the Wakers are are in the tough spot because they need to figure out how they want to handle this

The immediate point not immediate like solving it this week

But they need to figure out how they want to replace cousins minutes in the rotation

They'll also need to figure out eventually probably what they want to do with the roster spot because they could theoretically keep cousins on their roster

In case he returns in time to play

But then you lose that roster spot for the entire time that he's recovering

So I'm guessing that's not gonna happen, but now, you know, it's laid in the center market and while getting whatever minutes

The Wakers have at the five regular season playoffs are both is desirable

It's not exactly a robust market at least in terms of players that we think of as you know really primed to contribute

Yeah, we can talk about the potential replacements that in a moment here as far as keeping cousins on the roster one reason to do so

Perhaps might be for salary fodder in trays. They've got LeBron. They've got AD Danny Green

Those guys are presumably are all gonna be sticking around KCP has a player option for next year

So he again would be able to veto a trade it should he so desire then they've got every black Bradley Javelle and then down to DeMarcus

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