DeMarcus Cousins is already on the verge of being elite, and he's still only 23 years old.
When NBA fans talk about the best centers in basketball, a handful of names are almost universally discussed: Dwight Howard, Marc Gasol, Tim Duncan (if you consider him a center), Roy Hibbert, Joakim Noah and Brook Lopez. Cousins doesn't quite deserve to be in that category yet, but he's the leading contender of the many bigs striving to join the exclusive group.
That fact isn't lost on new Sacramento Kings head coach Mike Malone, who had the following to say about Cousins in an interview with The Sacramento Bee's Ailene Voisin after he was asked about Boogie's status as a franchise-level talent:
I've talked about DeMarcus a lot, but he's so talented. He's a big who can play away from the basket. But I'm going to ask him to play inside as well this year, be a guy we can run our offense through at times, because he can be such a good passer. The challenge for him is to cut down on those three turnovers a game. The luxury we had last year at Golden State, we had two bigs (David Lee and Andrew Bogut) who were not only good p ...
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