Ten months and 25 days after his left Achilles snapped, DeMarcus Cousins and his healed tendon bullied through Kevin Durant, a 7-foot tower with 890 career blocks, and, rather easily, dunked on his head.



You probably saw the viral video from Friday’s Warriors practice. About 35 cameras caught it. So maybe you thought: Dang. Not many healthy humans in the world could execute that power-skill combo move against legit post defense. He must be ready.



But he’s not. Cousins, without an official timetable, is still weeks away from his Warriors debut. The Achilles is stable, but the 270-pound body connected to it is crawling toward the finish line, slower, in these later rehab stages, than had been hoped.



The reverberations of Cousins’ dunk sent Durant tumbling one way and Cousins taunting, strutting, flexing the other. Forgive the showmanship. This was his most invigorating basketball moment in 11 months, the competitive high he’s been...