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DeMarcus Cousins' season debut wasn't only a few blocks shy of a triple-double, but also was only seconds away from starting clean with his new team.
The mercurial center earned a technical foul with just 50 seconds left in the game, which in his opinion, wasn't merited at all.
His New Orleans Pelicans ultimately fell to the Memphis Grizzlies 103-91, but Cousins plans to appeal his unjust first tech of the season.
“She dropped a couple “F” bombs and flipped me off and I don't think that was right,” Cousins said after getting into a verbal spat with a fan at the FedEx Forum, according to Rod Walker of The New Orleans Advocate.
The big man said he plans to talk to the league office about fans yelling at players — a bit that has become more and more popular through the years, even more so during the playoffs, when Patrick Beverley was seen being antagonized by a fan during last year's postseason.
“That's pretty bogus, ” Cousins said. “He (the referee) sat there and heard her speaking to me in a nasty way. I shouldn't have responded to it, but I'm a human being and I'm also a grown man and I'm not going to let another person just disrespect me.”
“I feel like he (the referee) should have handled it, but he decided not to but he handled my end of it.”
DeMarcus Cousins had boasted a pretty clean discipline sheet after coming to New Orleans last season, earning only one technical foul after picking up 17 with the Sacramento Kings to begin the year. The former Kentucky stud has been fined more than a million dollars over his career for misconduct.
