"Back in June, between Games 2 and 3 of the NBA Finals, former All-Star DeMarcus Cousins made national news when he was ejected from a game in the Puerto Rico league after an altercation with fans. The scuffle, captured in cellphone videos that quickly went viral, landed Cousins a suspension for the remainder of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional season. But another longtime NBA player was standing just a few feet away as the chaos unfolded: 16-year veteran and onetime No. 6 pick Danilo Gallinari."
""I hit him in his eye twice. We were scrambling to get the [rebound], and he fell down and the referee didn't call it," Gallinari told ESPN of that matchup of his Vaqueros de Bayamon against Cousins' Mets de Guaynabo on June 9. "And, from there, he started to go crazy at the ref. Our fans are crazy. They started to go at him and he started to have this conversation with one of our fans and I don't know if he slapped or punched one of our fans -- and they started throwing all kinds of stuff at him. "So it was a huge thing, but everything started because I poked him twice in the eye.""
DeMarcus Cousins was ejected from a Puerto Rico league game in June after an altercation with fans, with cellphone videos of the scuffle going viral and leading to a suspension for the remainder of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional season. Danilo Gallinari, a 16-year NBA veteran and onetime No. 6 pick, was nearby and later said he poked Cousins twice in the eye during a rebound scramble that went uncalled by the referee. Gallinari described fans confronting Cousins and objects being thrown. Gallinari played for Vaqueros de Bayamon, joined the Italian national team at EuroBasket, and at 37 announced his retirement following his final season.
Read at ESPN.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]