De’Aaron Fox would have accepted a maximum contract extension of $ 229 million with San Antonio Spurs
De’Aaron Fox has accepted an extension of a contract of $ 229 million over four years with the Spurs, According to Shams Charania d’EspnWhile San Antonio continues to reorganize his list with views of the construction of a competitor in good faith around the superstar of the ascendant Big Man Victor Wembanyama. The New Deal will keep Fox in San Antonio throughout the 2029-30 season.
Fox, 27, raised an average of 23.5 points, 6.3 assists, 4.8 rebounds and 1.5 interceptions in 36.1 minutes per game last season, pulling 46.3% on the field, 31% on a 3 -point range and 82.7% of the free throw line on 62 appearances in total for Spurs and Kings. He had the second highest individual score performance of the season, flocking a career record and a 60 -point Kings Record franchise in a November victory against the Timberwolves.
August 3, had been six months since Fox landed in San Antonio in a three -team business that ended his mandate with the Kings, seven seasons and a half after Sacramento replaced him from Kentucky with the fifth choice in total to the draft of the NBA 2017. Fox accepting a multi -year agreement seemed almost assured from the moment In San Antonio which he publicly confirmed to Michael C. Wright d’Espn after trade.
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Once his agent, Klutch Sports CEO, Rich Paul, informed Sacramento of Fox’s desire to join the Spurs, reports surfaced the guard telling to the club that he had a list of favorite teams.
“There was no list of F *** ING,” said Fox. “There was a team. I wanted to go to San Antonio. So many people are angry with me, saying that I was handling the team by giving them a destination. Well, it’s my career. If someone else is in my post, you would do the same. [the Kings] I want me to go. I wanted to have a destination. “”
Even after reaching this destination, however, reaching the six -month brand was the key. Because if Fox was eligible to sign an extension with Spurs as soon as the NBA 2025 final finished, he had to wait a little longer to be able to ink the most lucrative agreement available-the one who signals the belief of the Spurs that the former All-Star and the All-NBA leader can be to come in championship caliber.
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Fox is one of the fastest, most explosive and prolific score guards of the NBA – a three -level marker that can break down the opposite defenses of the dribble, enter the teeth of the blanket and punish adversaries by pulling mid -range, ending on the cut, or by making contact to go to the line of fault. He collected an average of 24.3 points and 6.2 assists per game out of 47.8% in the last six seasons. The only other players to hit these figures over this period? Nikola Jokić, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Dončić and LeBron James.
It is a fairly decent company – and a fairly surprising group of peers, given the relative lack of success that Fox was welcomed for most of his time in Sacramento, while the Ranadivated Vivek kings bound from the coach to the coach, from executive to vision and, largely, loss to loss throughout the first five professional seasons of Fox.
And then the Kings hired Mike Brown, and suddenly, Sacramento became serious. An offense of revised movement, built around the chemistry of the Dribble-Handoff of the Fox and the Domantas Sabonis Game Center, increased at the top of the NBA in offensive efficiency, fell the club to relevance. “Light the Beam” has become a happy meme, a rallying cry, an article of faith.
Fox and Sabonis have won all-star and all-nba behind the scenes. The shooting and creation of Fox end of game games earned him the first prize of the clutch player for the year of the NBA. For the first time in 16 years, the Kings have made the playoffs, taking the great warriors of the Bay Area at seven games in the first round of the 2023 season; Fox had to brush a finger on his hand in match 4, and Stephen Curry explodes for 50 points in match 7, to end the breathtaking race of the Kings.
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It turns out that it was as good as possible. Despite Fox’s continuous stellar game, Sabonis and the Sixth Man Malik Monk, the Kings took a slight step back in 2023-24, going from 48 victories and third place in the West to 46 victories and the ninth seeded while the rest of the conference increased around them. They would require a measure of revenge by eliminating Golden State in their first game tournament match, but will lose against the Pelicans in their second, preventing them from returning to the own qualifying series for the second consecutive season – and preparing the field so that things become uncomfortable if the next campaign was moving towards a rocky start.
Quick advance until December 2024, and … Well, things have become Rocky:
Already under .500 30 games in the season, the Kings had the chance to put an end to a sequence of four consecutive defeats by overthrowing the pistons on the way after Christmas. But Fox hung the Detroit goalkeeper Jaden Ivey shooting a 3 -point pointer with 3.1 seconds to do, which resulted in a game of four points and a fifth consecutive defeat.
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Subsequently, Brown criticized, among other things, Fox’s defense on this decisive final game. A day later, the Kings dismissed Brown – a sudden and clear decision that led some to speculate, in particular in the absence of any press conference by the Office Front to clarify the justification for the move, that Fox had gone to the Sacramento brass to request a change. Fox vehemently denied that, and as the Kings decision -makers continued to leave the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of Brown, the star leader has become more and more dissatisfied with the states in the capital of California.
“I said to myself:” Yo, I’m here for starting my eighth year. If Mike is fired, I’m going to go to my fifth coach “, told Fox to ESPN. “And I said to them,” I’m not going to play for another coach. I will play for another team. “… did you dismiss the coach, and you don’t do an interview?
Frustrated by this lack of support, and would be afraid of “the prospect of losing his best years in a team that was mired in mediocrity”, Fox and Paul clearly indicated that he felt that his future was outside Sacramento. More specifically, in San Antonio – a few hours west of Katy, Texas, where Fox played his high school ball; where his wife, concealed, grew up; And where a certain 7 -feet 3 inch French seems ready to resume sport.
“It’s like playing with Steph,” Fox told ESPN. “Not everyone can play with Steph because you have to look for him. But at the end of the day, that Motherf ***** can win championships. And I think Vic can win championships.”
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The Spurs were barely able to see Fox and Wembanyama together, with a pair of ailments – the thrombosis of the deep vein of Wembanyama and the fracture of the left finger of Fox – limiting them to only 120 minutes shared in five games, with San Antonio being outrained by five points with them sharing the ground. The new agreement represents a vote of confidence that, with a clean health note and many more repetitions, twinning can produce much more positive results. It also Allows San Antonio to Give Dylan Harper-Whom the Spurs Drafted No. 2 Overall in June’s 2025 NBA Draft after A Surprise Rise in the Lottery-A Longer Developmental Runway, Affording Him The Opportunity to Come Along Slowly Behind A High-Level Pro Playmaker Being Pressed Immediate Duty and Speredd to Provide Elite Service To Wembanyama, Devin Vassell, Reigning Rookie of the Year Stephon Castle, and the Rest of a Spurs expected by a lot of jump this season.
How much a jump depends mainly on Wembanyama, which was allowed to return in time for the training camp and which could well be labeled for a MVP consideration in its third season. However, the importance of a Leap Wembanyama could depend a lot on Fox – the kind of offensive engine that could make life easier for it, and which could give San Antonio the kind of punch upside down, a two that makes the life of the opponents of the Western Conference much more difficult.
