Kevin Durant guarded by Kyrie Irving during a December matchup between the Mavericks and Suns. / Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images
DeMarcus Cousins joined Michelle Beadle, Chandler Parsons and Lou Williams on FanDuel TV's _Run It Back_ on Tuesday. The three hosts asked the former NBA player for some hot takes, and boy did he deliver.
While the _Run It Back_ crew tried to goad Cousins into saying the Mavericks might want to trade the No. 1 pick in the draft to Milwaukee for Giannis Antetokounmpo, the former All-Star had his own trade target ready for the Mavericks: Kevin Durant.
"Kevin Durant wouldn't be a bad move there either with that No. 1 pick." Asked to clarify by Beadle, Cousins said, "Nico's already on record saying it's a three-year window as far as winning a championship. Flagg doesn't fit that window. Kevin Durant does. So I absolutely think he'll trade that No. 1 pick. I think that's an option for him."
After hearing that Parsons, while laughing, asked Cousins if there was "a world where he keeps the pick and doesn't take \[Flagg\] No. 1?" This got a laugh out of Beadle as well, but Lou Williams pointed out that Ace Bailey is "getting hot."
Cousins went with it.
"To me Ace Bailey is the No. 1 pick," said Cousins. "I think he's the closest thing we've seen to a Tracy McGrady, but I don't see Nico... there's no way he keeps that pick. With everything he's already said on record as far as his window of winning a championship it just doesn't logically make sense."
In the words of Cousins himself later in the clip, "We've seen crazier things."