Walker signed with the Celtics, taking another big fish off the Free Market. More Lakers fans were calling nurses to renew their hospital beds.
As the former Number One Player in the League and the current second-best active player, James had given the Lakers the best possible foundation for a revival by joining them, yet they simply could not land a second star.
Wasn't James supposed to rank only behind Tang Tian in the Best Teammate vote?
Why, when it came down to it, did everyone seem to be avoiding James?
That was not reasonable!
Just as Lakers fans were racking their brains for an answer, Woj dropped another piece of league-shaking news.
Cousins would join the Warriors on a one-year, $5 million mini mid-level contract!
When that news came out, both fans and team executives erupted in curses.
Cousins might have suffered a Season-Ending Injury last season, but he had once been the First Center!
Five million? The Warriors were committing highway robbery!
No, the Warriors had to be using some kind of under-the-table contract!
Amid the fans' outrage, Cousins gradually revealed some details of the signing to the media.
Five days had passed since the Free Market opened, and Cousins had hoped to sign a contract worth around $20 million per year.
Yet even now, let alone $20 million, no team was willing to offer him even $10 million.
It made him feel deeply insulted!
So he came up with the same idea as the Pelicans' Four Brothers of Hard Work from last season. He wanted to take revenge on society!
After the Tang Tian Clause came out, teams across the league were falling apart, including the Pelicans, who had just built a dynasty.
Among the remaining teams, the Warriors and Mavericks were among the few that could