Demarcus Cousins To the Celtics?

Not a bad look for spurts as it can help mitigate a few of the issues caused by DeRozan's lack of a three-ball, but more as a change of pace rather than a consistent look.

Dealing with players who have expiring contracts like Chalmers and Andersen is the best solution that Miami Heat has come up with.

Center DeMarcus Cousins scored a game-high 36 points, and guard Ben McLemore's acrobatic layup with under a minute left lifted the Sacramento Kings to a 107-101 victory over the Toronto Raptors at Sleep Train Arena on Sunday.

Sacramento Kings point guard Rajon Rondo.

The second quarter opened with both teams playing sloppy basketball.

What it seems like is that Cousins has been a coach killer, a player who has been forcing the Sacramento Kings front office, coaches, and players to play by his rules since he came into the league. Toronto went to their big man early and often and he rewarded them with 20 points on eight of 11 shooting while Kyle Lowry heated up late to finish with 20 points of his own. Even in November, we can begin to see this problems arise and need for trades to occur. After three quarters they had combined for 16 turnovers. After a Lowry three at the buzzer, the Raptors took a 82-79 lead into the fourth. All of those draft picks that the Celtics have accumulated should be fair game as well - the 2016 first-rounder from the Brooklyn Nets is looking more appetizing each day. In the 31-point third the Raptors were 7-for-9 from distance as they started to pull away.

There essentially are three ways to upgrade a team: the lottery, free agency and trades. Joseph would finish with 17 points in the loss.

They were squaring off against the Kings, a team so ripe with turmoil they needed an organizational meeting earlier in the week to allow everyone to air out their frustrations.

Having offered the No. 2 pick that became D'Angelo Russell last spring, the Lakers are surely hoping that Boogie's latest misadventures mean they can get back in the picture for the young center they thought could be next in the line from Wilt Chamberlain to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Shaquille O'Neal.

COUSINS November 9 vs. San Antonio: Scored 21 points and added 12 rebounds and three assists in a 106-88 loss to the Spurs. Cousins was Rondo's main beneficiary, as Rondo assisted on six of Cousins' field goals for 15 of his 33 points. And Rondo continues to impress. He finished with 14 assists to go with seven points and seven rebounds.

But when it counted down the stretch, the switch flipped and it was the Raptors committing the costly turnovers.

The Kings outscored the Raptors 14-2 over the final 3:22 - including the final 11 points of the game. The pace of the game quickened as the half wound down and the Kings took a 53-51 lead into the locker room. "A team that is jelling, beginning to learn each other and sometimes when you have adversity you pull together so we're going against a wounded team, a hungry team and we got to be prepared".