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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Andrew Rogers must be out of his mind.
Doesn't he know who he's sitting next to, this burly beast of a man whose temper runs hotter than this scorching city in the summertime? This is DeMarcus Cousins he's making fun of.
The DeMarcus Cousins.
Nasty, mean, so-scary-four-NBA-teams-said-no-before-the-Kings-said-yes DeMarcus Cousins. Six-foot-11, 270-pound, 20-year-old man-child who was booted from Kings practice last month DeMarcus Cousins. The guy who during a July summer league game yelled at Minnesota center Greg Stiemsma, "Man, I'll kill that f****** white boy," DeMarcus Cousins.
Yet here's Rogers, his smallish (and, yes, white) 22-year-old roommate who's driving Cousins' black Range Rover down Interstate 80, acting as if he knows a different DeMarcus Cousins than the rest of us.
"Hey, make sure you get this in your story," he says with a mischievous grin to this reporter in the backseat. "DeMarcus Cousins loves Taylor Swift."
He has awoken the bear -- again.
Apparently the milquetoast country music star was crooning on Cousins' bedroom television when he awoke this morning, but Rogers has decided to spin the story just to get a rise out of him. And goading Cousins, as Rogers knows better than anyone, is like taking a rebound from a baby.
"Man, you woke me up, so how was I watching it?!" Cousins protests incredulously. "And then what did you say? You said, 'Oh, that's my girl.' Did you not say that?"
Rogers, who left his job as the Kentucky Wildcats' team manager after three years to come assist Cousins with his new life in the pros, is having too much fun to stop now.
"I'm just saying, I went in your room this morning and Taylor Swift was on ..."
Cousins is far from mad, but he's about to end this madness. His image is bad enough as it is without this rumor spreading.
"I do not listen to Taylor Swift," he announces in a playfully formal tone. "I could not name one of her songs right now. If she was on the radio, I wouldn't even know it was her."
If you didn't know any better, you wouldn't know this was him.
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Source: http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/12/17/demarcus-cousins-reputation-precedes-him-deceives-you/
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