NEW ORLEANS -- All-Stars DeMarcus Cousins and Anthony Davis partied on Tuesday as the tallest float riders in Mardi Gras history by throwing beads and trinkets from a double-decker float to the teeming Carnival crowds on St. Charles Avenue.
Cousins, however, found out as he finished the Zulu parade that he will have to sit out the New Orleans Pelicans' Wednesday night game against the Detroit Pistons at the Smoothie King Center.
The NBA upheld Cousins' one-game suspension after he picked up his 18th technical foul of the season just 32 seconds into New Orleans' 118-110 loss at Oklahoma City on Sunday, the Pelicans' third consecutive defeat since acquiring the 6-foot-11 center in a blockbuster deal with the Sacramento Kings.