The Sacramento Kings will be without their star center when they travel to Miami to play the Heat on Thursday night. DeMarcus Cousins has been suspended one game for hitting Hawks big man Al Horford with a forearm to the head during Atlanta’s win on Wednesday, the league announced.
DeMarcus Cousins suspended one game for hitting Al Horford with a forearm to the face
Cousins finished with 24 points in the loss on Wednesday.
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Ricky O'Donnell has covered basketball at all levels for more than a decade at SB Nation. He’s currently the Associate Director of Programming.
Here’s a look at the play:
NBA suspended DeMarcus Cousins one game for this forearm to Al Horford. Surprised refs missed it altogether pic.twitter.com/XcwTPl20r8
— Michael Lee (@MrMichaelLee) November 19, 2015 The incident happened in the first quarter, and both players remained in the game. Cousins finished with 24 points and and 12 rebounds in the loss while Horford went for 17 points in the win.
The Kings know how much they can struggle with Cousins out of the lineup. Sacramento is 0-4 this season without Cousins and 11-37 over the past six years when he’s out, according to James Ham of Comcast Sports Net.
Cousins has been one of the most productive players in the league this season when he’s on the floor. Boogie is fourth in the league in scoring (25.7 points per game), fifth in rebounding (11.1 per game) and seventh in PER.
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