DeMarcus Cousins tore his ACL on Monday. Confirmations of the injury came on Thursday afternoon. I spent most of the rest of that day thinking about Cousins the person and, really, simply feeling sick for him. There are few things more sad in professional sports than to have an elite athlete’s body betray them. Cousins, multiple time all-star and All-NBA level player, has now suffered his third major left leg injury in the span of 20 months.
There is a physical toll and a mental toll to all of this.