DeMarcus Cousins on Sacramento: ‘My biggest regret is not leaving when I had the chance’

DeMarcus Cousins will have good and bad memories when he returns to Sacramento, California, on Thursday for the first time since the Kings abruptly traded him to New Orleans last season. But if the Pelicans center could go back in time, he would have agreed to push for a trade while feuding with then-coach George Karl in the summer of 2015 instead of staying loyal to the Kings.

“There were plenty of situations where I’m like, ‘Man, why didn’t you just do it this way?’ ” Cousins recently told ESPN. “And there was plenty of times where I was a victim. But at the end of the day, it’s still on me. My biggest regret is not leaving when I had the chance.

“I had the chance, but I fought it. I had the chance to leave, but I didn’t.”

Source: Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated