Even now, nearly three months since the phone rang in the office of Warriors general manager Bob Myers, it’s difficult to wrap your head around.
DeMarcus Cousins, a Warrior.
Even less likely than the concept was the process.
“When it was clear I couldn’t stay in New Orleans,” Cousins wrote in The Players Tribune this week, “I went out and created what would end up being the best opportunity for myself. I called Bob Myers up.”
Most of the important decisions of the offseason had been made by the Warriors. Myers’ phone rang. A voice on the other end of the line asked if he had Prince Albert in a can.