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In last night’s Kings/Mavericks game, DeMarcus Cousins was ejected for a flagrant foul on Vince Carter. Cousins was trying to stand back up after losing the ball and on his way up, swung his forearm into Carter’s throat. The official called a flagrant two foul, which led to an automatic ejection. After the game, Cousins insisted he didn’t hit Carter on purpose:
“I swear to God I didn’t try to do that. I’m just tired of being in these situations.”
Otherwise, Cousins had a great game, finishing with 29 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists and some monster dunks. When asked if he thinks this will lead to a suspension, Boogie said he’s hoping for the best but expecting the worst:
“I’m pretty sure my reputation will come into play … but hopefully they’ll realize it wasn’t intentional.”
Did Cousins hit Carter intentionally? Judge for yourself from the video above.
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January 11th, 2013 at 10:33 am
Every time I go from sitting to standing I lead with a swinging elbow. Makes sense
January 11th, 2013 at 10:33 am
Looks like Boogie was still very unbalanced and fell into Carter more than anything else. Shouldn’t have even been a flagrant, just a regular foul for falling into him. SURELY there won’t be a suspension for this.
January 11th, 2013 at 10:34 am
Anyone else not named Rasheed Wallace does that and there’s no ejection. He’s quickly becoming the modern day Wallace, Rodman type.
January 11th, 2013 at 10:34 am
I am so sick of Cousins. They oughtta stick him the D league. Maybe he’ll develop his mind.
January 11th, 2013 at 10:35 am
Cousins is a thug and an embarrassment to the University of Kentucky. If he had played anywhere else he would have been aptly labled as such a long time ago.
January 11th, 2013 at 10:36 am
I think being able to control yourself and not hitting a North Carolina person in the face is pretty impressive.
January 11th, 2013 at 10:37 am
I don’t know about you guys… but when I throw intentional elbows at people, I typically don’t try to catch them and break their fall. No way this is a flagrant foul… a foul, yes… a loose ball situation where a guy gets hit… happens in every basketball game.
I feel bad for Cousins, but he’s brought a great deal of this on himself.
January 11th, 2013 at 10:38 am
This UK team couldn’t beat Gillespies NIT team. We are pitiful and will be a 1st round flameout
January 11th, 2013 at 10:39 am
cant spell sucks without uk…hahaha
January 11th, 2013 at 10:40 am
Cousins is a thug
January 11th, 2013 at 10:40 am
Love Boogie, but that looked intentional. Love Nerlens, but his shot last night was late.
January 11th, 2013 at 10:41 am
More like kissing cousins…haha…why he went to Kantucky
January 11th, 2013 at 10:41 am
Cousin’s an idiot and needs too grow up! Needs to be back flipping burgers.
January 11th, 2013 at 10:42 am
noel is a BAD college player
January 11th, 2013 at 10:43 am
Looked intentional and then he immediately realized what he did and tried to catch him. Boogie is what he is.
January 11th, 2013 at 10:43 am
Obviously, if it was intentional, Boogie wouldn’t have fallen on top of Carter trying to catch him.
January 11th, 2013 at 10:43 am
8 your an idiot. I guess you thought the Brandon knight team was going to flame out in the first round too.
January 11th, 2013 at 10:45 am
He just looks out of control after going for a loose ball, but when you have a reputation like Boogie has they will automatically assume it was intentional. When he tries to catch him as he is going down, I think it shows he didn’t intend to get him like that. Besides that, when you swing an elbow intentionally, you go for the face
January 11th, 2013 at 10:46 am
Every Raptor fan probably cheer Boogie for doing that (on purpose). Nerlens’ shot was late. We look like crap.
January 11th, 2013 at 10:46 am
that was pretty weak, my sister can hit harder than that. Carter should play in the WNBA
January 11th, 2013 at 10:47 am
It looks like Cousins got frustrated, reacted to that frustration, and then immediately regretted his reaction and attempted to keep Carter from falling.
If he’s tired of being in these situations, he should stop putting himself in these situations.
With that said, I still love Boogie.
January 11th, 2013 at 10:47 am
I think he was trying to get him off him with his forearm yes, but trying to inflict a throat chop, no! If he was wanting to hurt him, he would have! He realized what was happening and tried to catch him.
January 11th, 2013 at 10:47 am
Looks like Carter flopped almost as hard as Harrow last night. Both of those hits didn’t require the reactions
January 11th, 2013 at 10:49 am
I believe Cousins sometimes does things on instinct. He’s not a bad person but things that have happened in his past cause him to react. The forearm to Swopshire was totally intentional though. lol
January 11th, 2013 at 10:54 am
Demarcus Cousins is my favorite UK player of the Calipari era. He’s the only Cat in recent memory with a mean streak and gets roasted like a MFer for having an attitude. He’s targeted every game and interview and I personally like the swagger he has.
F the haters Boogie. I’m with you.
January 11th, 2013 at 10:57 am
Dumb. But, I wish Boogie could donate some angst to Poythress.
January 11th, 2013 at 10:59 am
17…I win. you reacted…turd
January 11th, 2013 at 11:02 am
I love Cousins, but the forearm was intentional. He immediately regretted it and I don’t believe that he was trying to hurt VC. With that said, this is a pretty interesting article from way back when…
January 11th, 2013 at 11:03 am
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/12734436/combustible-cousins-could-incinerate-kentuckys-title-dream
January 11th, 2013 at 11:08 am
Come on guys. Boogie is just a misunderstood, immature guy. He really is the nicest person to ever walk the earth. He shouldn’t have any fouls called on him yet this season, much less any technicals or ejections. He is a soft, caring, warm, loving individual.
January 11th, 2013 at 11:09 am
its the NBA so who cares. i would rather watch rugby than the NBA and i don’t know rugby rules. at least when they punch or take swings at each other it is interesting for 15 seconds.
January 11th, 2013 at 11:12 am
Screw you trolls and stupid Kentucky fans. We are a good team this year and Cousins is awesome.
January 11th, 2013 at 11:13 am
wow 27….. Do you guys remember the pathtic louisville fan who posted his cell phone number on catsillustrated awhile back? I would bet a good sum of money that number 27 is the same guy. I was dumb enough to text him when he posted it, and he still texts me about every 2 weeks and talks random shit. I wish i could pull up our conversations but ive deleted them.. Anyways he always says “I Win” if i text back. And childish things of that nature.
January 11th, 2013 at 11:18 am
Don’t think it was intentional why would he try to catch him after it was?
January 11th, 2013 at 11:20 am
21) Exactly what I saw. Then factor in his reputation and you get a flagrant 2
January 11th, 2013 at 11:29 am
Huge Cousins fan as a player. Huge Cousins hater about his terrible attitude. The guy is in the NBA making millions of dollars and every week acting like a pure thug. Luckily Cal controlled him to an extent and got him out of UK before he really made an embarrassment of the program. The guy has some MAJOR anger problems.
January 11th, 2013 at 11:31 am
It looked pretty intentional to me….
January 11th, 2013 at 11:33 am
At least I’m a real thug. The rest of you do the same, just on the internet. Shame on you. Say goodbye to the bad guy, cause its the last time you gonna see one like me for a while (you people need me!)
January 11th, 2013 at 11:58 am
Looks to me like he realized as he was doing it that he shouldn’t be and tried to recover and make it look unintentional. He is a punk and a crybaby.
January 11th, 2013 at 11:58 am
Intentional, then it dawned on him that his NBA salary is floating on thin ice so he tried to play it off.
If you don’t see it that way, then try taking off the blue tinted glasses because if Boogie played college ball at Tennesse you guys would be calling for a lifetime ban by now.
He needs to get his sh!t together and act like a professional.
From an unbiased, die-hard UK fan.
January 11th, 2013 at 11:59 am
Cousins and Magloire (who was an NBA All-Star) are two of my favorite CATS and both were/are thug players. Regardless, both took shots at UofL players and I certainly praise them for that and if you wouldn’t take the chance to elbow a UofL player/or fan in the head and get away with you know you’d do it. Magloire got Hansbrough good, Andre Riddick went after Sheed. Let’s also not forget the crossface crippler Magloire put on Wojciechowski in the elite 8 in 98. That Rondo/Cousins scuffle was blown out of proportion as was the OJ Mayo nut shot, you’d hit him too.
January 11th, 2013 at 12:01 pm
Intentional then half way thru he was life Shi@! and tried to play it off.
Sorry dude. Grow up.
January 11th, 2013 at 12:13 pm
#40, exactly right. How can some of you not see this?
January 11th, 2013 at 12:58 pm
He surely started to attack but realized he should not. He pulled up and even tried to stop the falling Carter. Regrettable action here will be met with a big fine because of his history.
January 11th, 2013 at 1:14 pm
I love DMC but yeah, it did *look* intentional to me. I think he’ll have a hard time convincing the Kings staff otherwise. On the plus side, if it doesn’t work out for him in the NBA, maybe Cousins could come back to UK and teach some of our current players a few things because they don’t seem to be listening to much that Cal is telling them.
January 11th, 2013 at 1:26 pm
Kyle [ I can't guard a fence post] and [Alex,I think I broke my nail] Should take some tutor lessons from Boogie.Can Kyle even Jump?
January 11th, 2013 at 1:33 pm
I saw some other parts of that game and Big Cuz was getting hacked from all sides. The refs called nothing. So unless you see what happened prior you can’t make a fair judgement call. They were baiting him the entire game.
January 11th, 2013 at 1:59 pm
problem is in his mind he thinks it wasn’t intentional and thinks the word is after him.
Dude grow up.
January 11th, 2013 at 2:35 pm
41. “Oh my God, what’s he doing to WOJO?” that call still makes me sick
47. Players will be doing nothing but baiting Cousins for the rest of his career. It will be a gameplan. Piss him off enough to where he gets himself kicked out, because otherwise he is unguardable. He has to learn to step back and not react.
January 11th, 2013 at 2:53 pm
People usually deserve their reputation. The sooner Demarcus figures that out, the better. The world isn’t against him… he’s doing it to himself. He really needs to get some help to figure out how to create a habit of reacting differently when he gets frustrated. Otherwise he will continue in a downward spiral until he’s out of the league for really hurting someone. He’s a freeking time bomb.
January 11th, 2013 at 3:02 pm
Yes
January 11th, 2013 at 3:19 pm
COUSINS AND RONDO NEED TO HOOK UP IN BOSTON, BABY
January 11th, 2013 at 3:43 pm
41. Crippler Cross face…. lol, it was more like the Rings of Saturn, but still good reference.
January 11th, 2013 at 4:15 pm
It was an intentional “shove”. It was not a hit. A foul? Yes? A flagrant foul? Probably? A flagrant 2? No freaking way unless your name is Cousins. They are out to make him into a thug. I watched Boogie endure more abuse than anyone I’ve ever seen play at UK. But big mouth Dick V. put the thug label on him his first time calling him in a game. I can’t stand that guy (Vitale).
January 11th, 2013 at 4:37 pm
It’s like an abusive husband who reacts in the heat of the moment. Then feels bad immediately after and promises to never do it again. He has that flare up temper when he gets frustrated. Exactly like when he elbowed the UL guy to the rupp floor (and countless examples since then).. So immature, and I wish he wasn’t linked to us
January 11th, 2013 at 5:16 pm
Cousins needs to quite bringing unnecasary spotlight to himself and then when he does have something like this come up he want look so bad,,,,,,,you r what u do like it or not.
January 11th, 2013 at 5:55 pm
It was Vince Carter so it makes it OK.
January 11th, 2013 at 6:52 pm
One of the reasons we didnt win the title that year.. To many attitudes on that team. Way to much talent not to have won it all!!
January 11th, 2013 at 8:30 pm
57, your’e right- 46, spot on!- 41, love you bud-26, good call- 25, leave out the excessive language and you are on the money- 8, you sir, are an idiot-thanks and have a wonderful evening
January 12th, 2013 at 8:20 am
seems to me like he did it on purpose but realized almost immediately he made a mistake and that’s why he did the whole maneuver as he was going down. should be a suspension but not a long one.