Despite Cousins’s rust and apparent lack of conditioning, Golden State outscored the Clippers by 21 points in his time on the floor before he fouled out. Two of those 3’s, early in the fourth quarter, “really broke the whole game open,” Warriors Coach Steve Kerr said. Most of all, Cousins smiled. And that might be the most ominous aspect of Cousins’s long-anticipated bow with the juggernaut he joined on a bargain deal via free agency last summer. That deal, worth just $5.3 million, came amid leaguewide concern about how Cousins would respond to a torn Achilles’ tendon in his left foot, historically one of the sport’s most devastating injuries.

Source: New York Times January 19, 2019 20:08 UTC