Paging Mr. Adam Silver: May be time to get rid of DeMarcus Cousins

I'm probably going to have to do some research on this.

The Sacramento Kings' DeMarcus Cousins has been suspended one game for receiving SIXTEEN technical fouls over the course of the current season.  He was tossed for an altercation and an argument with the referees against Chicago.  Should've been ejected for just the altercation, where he shoved one of the Bulls' assistants.

He was also fined $25,000 for flipping off somebody and making a vulgar comment (heading to the locker room:  "FUCK GOLDEN STATE!!!") after the game before against Golden State.

Vlade Divac, the GM of the Kings, has already said he won't trade Cousins. Cousins was seen as a trade possibility.  Scottie Pippen, as an analyst, believes Divac will trade him.  (For what value?  Cousins MIGHT play 15 games the rest of the year!)

The NBA suspends players one game for receiving their sixteenth technical foul over the season -- and another game for every pair of technicals thereafter.

Cousins has reached the limit in just 52 games.  There were two more T's he received that were rescinded -- he has been called for 18 such fouls in 52 games.  Only two other NBA players are in double-figures in this regard (Russell Westbrook and DeAndre Jordan).

• Cousins was suspended last year, receiving 17 technical fouls.  (Draymond Green, counting the playoffs, was the league leader with 21.)  
• Cousins was second in the league two years ago with 15.
• Fourth in the league (and suspended) with 16 in 2013-14.
• Led the league and was suspended in 2012-13 with 17.
• Sixth in the league with 13 in 2011-12.
• Eighth in the league in his rookie year of  2010-11 with 15, a year in which Dwight Howard had 25 (which is the NBA record after the league went to the "16 T's = suspension" rule).

So, by my count, that's 110 technicals in seven years in the league, an average of nearly the suspension limit of 16 a year.

(Statistics courtesy of teamrankings.com .)

This now represents the fourth year Cousins has been suspended by the NBA for reaching 16 technical fouls.

He's nowhere close to either the career or season record, though.

That goes to Rasheed Wallace, who is believed to have created this rule, after back-to-back years in which he holds the top two places in the T record book for a season, FORTY-ONE in 2000-2001 (ejected four times), and THIRTY-EIGHT the year previous (ejected six).  He was so bad, the league actually instituted what became known as the "Rasheed Wallace Rule".  You mouth off to the refs, you're T'd up automatically.

Ironically, he was banned seven games in 2003 for threatening the life of Tim Donaghy on a loading dock.

Wallace still led the league the last five years of his career.

Wallace was T'd up 317 times in his NBA career.