Draymond Green: 'We Definitely Want to Win' vs. Pelicans for DeMarcus Cousins

Even though DeMarcus Cousins won't be on the court during the Golden State Warriors' game against the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday, his Warriors teammates intend to send a message to Boogie's former team on his behalf.

Per NBC Sports Bay Area's Monte Poole, Cousins asked the Warriors to make sure the Pelicans feel their wrath.

"Yeah, we definitely want to win for him," Draymond Green told reporters. "Obviously, he feels a [certain] way about...whatever."

Cousins spent a season and a half with the Pelicans after being acquired in a February 2017 trade with the Sacramento Kings. He was limited to 48 games in 2017-18, as he tore his Achilles during a Jan. 26 matchup with the Houston Rockets.

Writing for the Players' Tribune in September, Cousins said he never heard from New Orleans after free agency started:

"It was a lot of, We might be interested. We don't know if it's the right fit. All of a sudden, I wasn't hearing from the Pelicans. I wasn't hearing from no one. That was tough. We in a nasty business, at times. I don't even say that in a good or bad way. It's just no place to get too emotional. The facts are still the same. I was expecting to be back in New Orleans, and I was proud of what we were starting there."

Per Marc Stein of the New York Times, the Pelicans did offer Cousins $40 million over two years at some point after his Achilles injury but before the season ended.

With no offers coming his way, Cousins called Warriors president of basketball operations Bob Myers and then signed a one-year, $5.3 million deal with the two-time defending NBA champions.

Cousins began doing non-contact drills when the Warriors opened training camp last month, but no timetable for his return to the court has been established. The four-time All-Star has averaged 21.5 points and 11.0 rebounds per game in eight NBA seasons.