John Wall is trying to reunite with former Kentucky teammate DeMarcus Cousins in the NBA.
Wall is lobbying to get Washington to sign Cousins for the end of the regular season at Disney World.
Here are details from CBS Sports:
But injuries to Cousins have made the pairing far more realistic. Cousins signed only a one-year deal for the Tax-Payer Mid-Level Exception with the Golden State Warriors in 2018 after tearing his Achilles tendon while playing for New Orleans, and then took an even smaller deal with the Los Angeles Lakers for this season following a quad injury in the 2019 playoffs. He was waived in March under the assumption that he would not recover quickly enough from a torn ACL in August to contribute this postseason. But since the postseason was pushed back due to coronavirus, Cousins is suddenly a free agent potentially capable of helping teams immediately, and Wall hopes that the team he helps is his Wizards.
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“Oh man, you know I’m trying to push for that. I’ve been on that for like five years. I want to sign him right now,” Wall said in an Instagram interview with The Undefeated (h/t Chase Hughes of NBC Sports Washington). Wall added that he and Wizards general manager Tommy Sheppard have “been talking about it here and there.”
Cousins has not publicly commented on his health, but the typical recovery time for a torn ACL is approximately one year. He suffered his injury on Aug. 15, 2019. The restarted season is slated to begin on July 30, 2020, nearly one year after Cousins went down. There is a reasonable chance that he is healthy enough to play at Disney.
Here’s the complete interview on Instagram:
