#2 DeMarcus Cousins - 90
Boogie's rating has fallen off a cliff now that he's out for a total of about a calendar year with an Achilles tear, but there's still every chance that when he comes back fully fit (whether this season or later) that he'll get back to the mid-90s rating that he amassed midway through his season with the Pelicans in 2017-18.
One of the most complete players in the league today, Cousins is essentially a prototypical 'unicorn' - a big man who can do everything on offense from initiating set plays as the ballhandler to being the roll man on those same pick-and-roll plays. Not a single team in the league would be happy to face an emotionally charged Cousins.
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Signing with the Warriors was the best possible decision for him at this crucial juncture of his career, and affords him the opportunity to rid himself of the 'locker room cancer' tag that has, in my view, been unfairly attached to him.
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