Former NBA star DeMarcus Cousins on Monday had a heated altercation with fans while playing basketball overseas.
The four-time All-Star has been playing for the Guaynabo Mets in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional, the premier basketball league in Puerto Rico. Cousins was ejected from the Mets’ Monday road game against Vaqueros de Bayamon at Coliseo Ruben Rodriguez in Bayamon.
The crowd booed and taunted Cousins heavily as he walked toward the locker room. As he confronted one fan near the tunnel, fans began pelting him with drinks.
WOW — DeMarcus Cousins was ejected, and fans threw drinks at him —
— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) June 10, 2025
Cousins went after the fans. 😳
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Here’s another angle of the moment fans started tossing drinks at Cousins. The situation may have escalated had several security staff not restrained Cousins from retaliating.
Here’s close of DeMarcus Cousins going crazy when fans threw beer at him pic.twitter.com/Oy5WH71bSm https://t.co/N5vXzyNDoF
— Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 (@big_business_) June 10, 2025
The NBA has some unruly fans who sometimes cross the line when trash-talking players on the court. But the Puerto Rican fans seemed to be at a completely different level.
One video captured before Cousins’ ejection showed one courtside fan flipping the double bird at Boogie. Cousins and the fan started getting physical as other Mets players tried to keep the peace.
DeMarcus Cousins LOST IT while playing in Puerto Rico 😭pic.twitter.com/PidhmFIBeS
— BricksCenter (@BricksCenter) June 10, 2025
Cousins may have been frustrated that his team was losing against the top-seeded Vaqueros, who have a stacked roster filled with NBA players. The Vaqueros got a combined 52 points from JaVale McGee, Danilo Gallinari, and Chris Duarte en route to a 101-91 win over Cousins’ Mets.
Cousins has not played in the NBA since the 2021-22 season when he served as Nikola Jokic’s backup on the Denver Nuggets. He has since carved out a career playing overseas, including an Asian stop with another former All-Star center.
