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The Lakers signed Cousins in the summer of 2019 to try to recreate the frontcourt success he had teaming with Anthony Davis on the New Orleans Pelicans, however, the former All-Star center never played a game for L.A. But him sticking up for his teammate shows a lot of who DeMarcus Cousins is." You're just going to have to live with it. Or I don't even know if it's a judgment call it comes from the replay booth. "The, when he hit LeBron in the face or whatever, that's a judgment call. He wasn't going to allow anything to happen to his rookie, and I think that's admirable. "I thought was sticking up for his teammate on the first part, the first technical, and I'll support him 100% when he's sticking up for his teammate," Rockets coach Stephen Silas said. He was called for two technical fouls in a span of two minutes, 53 seconds to get ejected in Monday's loss to the Dallas Mavericks. Cousins has been ejected twice over the Rockets' last four games. However, the referees ruled that Cousins' wind-up and follow-through merited a flagrant 2 call and automatic ejection. The shot appeared to be incidental, as Cousins was attempting to strip James of the ball as the Lakers' star drove to the basket. Not long after that, Cousins also was ejected early in the second quarter when he was called for a flagrant foul 2 for hitting LeBron James in the head. Morris was ejected for the infraction after he retaliated against Cousins' body check that made him fall to the floor by charging at Cousins to push him while he was helping Tate up. for getting into a shoving match after Morris' flagrant foul 1 on Jae'Sean Tate, which sent the Rockets' forward sprawling to the ground.

Morris and Cousins were called for double technical fouls with 2:15 remaining in the first quarter of the Houston Rockets' 120-102 loss to L.A. Neither player ended up finishing the game. In Cousins' first game against his former team Sunday, he and Morris got in a testy exchange of their own.

The Los Angeles Lakers exchanged DeMarcus Cousins' roster spot for Markieff Morris back in February.