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Cousins returns from ejection, ends with 55
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DEMARCUS Cousins finished with a season-high 55 points and a three-point play with 35 seconds left, following a short-lived ejection, lifting the Sacramento Kings to a 126-121 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday.
The Kings forward scored on a driving layup and then appeared to receive his second technical foul when he shouted at the Portland players and his mouthpiece flew toward the Blazers’ bench. Cousins sprinted off the court into the locker room, but returned moments later.
He came back to applause, made a free throw, then blocked a Portland shot to help the Kings clinch the victory.
Cousins’ 55 points fell one shy of his career high and came during his first home game since a controversial run-in with a Sacramento sports reporter landed him a US$50,000 fine.
Cousins became the first player in Sacramento history to have multiple 55-point games, but he didn’t want to talk about that immediately after the game. He ranted instead about the officials giving him a technical foul, ejecting him and then rescinding it after determining his mouthpiece fell out.
“It is ridiculous,” he complained. “It is obvious what’s being done out there. I hope the world can see now what’s really going on out here.”
“It is getting ridiculous,” he added. “It is really ridiculous.”
Asked if his mouthpiece came out accidentally, he said, “Yes, man. This is ridiculous, Ridiculous.”
Cousins said he was on the verge of breaking things in the Kings’ dressing room when he got word that the officials had changed their minds.
Referee Brian Forte said he initially thought Cousins threw the mouthpiece into the stands. “I conferred with my partners and they confirmed that he did not throw the mouthpiece,” he said.
Cousins blocked three shots in the game, moving him past current Kings general manager Vlade Divac into third place on the team’s all-time list with 524 blocks, and pulled down 13 rebounds.
Elsewhere in the National Basketball Association, it was: Hornets 117, Lakers 113; Pelicans 108, 76ers 93; Knicks 118, Pacers 111; Magic 136, Heat 130 (2OT); Raptors 116, Nets 104; Celtics 112, Grizzlies 109 (OT); Cavaliers 114, Bucks 108, OT; Spurs 102, Rockets 100; Warriors 104, Jazz 74; and Clippers 119, Nuggets 102.
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