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I don't want to sound like I'm bitter, but this has been refuted by Zach Lowe and a few other NBA reporters. he did receive offers from other teams, he just wants justification so he doesn't get Flack for joining the best team in the league. At the end of the day he can do whatever he wants, but he did receive offers from other teams he just chose to go to the Warriors.
Zach Lowe said no such thing. These are his actual words on what transpired
"By the middle of Monday, Cousins' people were calling teams and pitching deals: one-year, $15 million in one place, per sources, other numbers in other places. Clearly, there was not much interest. It might be that the richest deal easily and quickly available to him was that full midlevel exception contract starting at around $8.6 million.
Any team offering that -- and I'm not sure as of this writing that one did -- might have sensed its leverage and tried to coax Cousins into a two-year deal at that price. For many of them, that was the smart play. Cousins would have justifiably resisted. Others are hoarding cap space for the summer of 2019 and so would have restricted their offers to one season."