DeMarcus Cousins leads the NBA in technical fouls. He also leads the league in scowls and he's even kicked over a few garbage cans following the Kings' loss to the Chicago Bulls on Saturday night. But that's just a small portion of who he is.
According to a source that travels with the team, Cousins went out of his way Sunday morning to make an impact in the lives of a couple of local youth in Chicago.
Kids were selling chocolate bars outside the team's hotel trying to earn money for charity. Plenty of people walked by, avoiding the youth, but Cousins stopped, reached into his pocket and purchased all of the boxes they had to sell.
Later on in the day, Cousins donated the candy to the flight service staff for use on the flight to Detroit.
Cousins gets plenty of negative press for his antics on the floor, but off the court, he is extremely generous. He plays Santa-Cuz during the holidays, buying gifts for underprivileged children in Sacramento and his hometown of Mobile, Alabama. He has also purchased a new scoreboard for a local high school and even paid for the funeral of a local high school football player who lost his life in a drive-by shooting.
No one is perfect, Cousins included, but he also has a genuinely good side that he often doesn't seek or receive press for.
