DeMarcus Cousins is not happy with a Sacramento Bee reporter who recently wrote an article about Cousins’ brother.
Earlier this week, Cousins confronted the reporter in the locker room:
The Bee claims in an opinion piece that Cousins is a “bully” to local journalists:
For the journalists who cover the Kings, Cousins’ tirade and threat to refuse the required NBA post-game interview is an all-too-familiar pattern of abusive behavior.
“He is a bully, to be sure,” said Bee columnist Ailene Voisin, who has extensive experience covering the NBA, as well as the NFL and MLB. “He bullies everybody. He bullies his coaches, his teammates, team employees, reporters.
“But this is the first time I have heard of him intimidating anyone physically,” she said. “He normally glares, stares and refuses to speak to the cluster of reporters if someone is present that he is annoyed with at that particular time. Or, he will simply refuse to answer a question from an offending reporter.”
Most recently Cousins, whose base salary is almost $17 million this season, has been angry with Leo Beas, the managing editor of Cowbell Kingdom, part of ESPN’s TrueHoop blog network. Journalists say Clark wasn’t there when Cousins excoriated Beas. But he was when Beas attended the post-game interview and Cousins refused to answer any questions from anyone until Beas left. Clark asked Beas to leave so others could do their jobs, Voisin confirmed.
