The Kings have informed De’Aaron Fox and agent Chris Gaston that they don’t want to trade the 24-year-old guard, reports Shams Charania of The Athletic.
Fox’s name has surfaced more frequently in trade rumors as of late, including earlier today. However, sources tell Charania that the Kings’ current mindset is that they want to keep both Fox and second-year guard Tyrese Haliburton and build the team around them. Sacramento has conveyed that stance to potential trade partners and to Fox and his reps, says Charania.
Multiple reports this week stated that the Kings have expressed interest in Pacers center Domantas Sabonis, with one report suggesting Fox had been brought up in those discussions. Charania says a deal centered around Sabonis and Fox won’t happen.
The Kings are also believed to be very much in the hunt for Ben Simmons, though Sam Amick of The Athletic – who previously reported that Sacramento was open to the idea of acquiring Tobias Harris along with Simmons – now hears from a source that the team doesn’t have interest in that scenario (Twitter link). Amick says the Kings still see a pathway to landing Simmons, but it’s hard to imagine how they’ll construct an offer that meets the Sixers‘ asking price without including either Fox or Haliburton.
Fox and Haliburton were reported last summer to be off-limits, but that changed earlier this month, as Amick reported that no Kings players were considered untouchable. While that report – and others – stated that Sacramento’s preference would be to build around Fox and Haliburton, there had been a sense that the team was becoming more open to doing something drastic and perhaps breaking up its backcourt.
Based on Charania’s report, it sounds like the Kings are once again leaning toward making Fox and Haliburton untouchable. It’s possible they arrived at their latest position as a result of being underwhelmed by how the two guards were being valued on the trade market — it’s also possible this is posturing and Sacramento will reverse its stance again within the next three weeks.
For now though, it appears that any major move made by the Kings will involve some combination of Buddy Hield, Harrison Barnes, Marvin Bagley III, and others on the roster rather than Fox or Haliburton.
Until the D in don’t turns into a W it means nothing
Haliburton makes 19 dollars per hour
Ben Simmons makes $147 million
Salary is not match
Trade failed
It would be a 3 team trade with SAC sending Haliburton, H.Barnes,1st rd pick ’22 (top 3 protected)as well as M.Bagley, B Hield to ATL for Ben Simmons, Tobias Harris & Isiah Joe
ATL then trades John Collins to Philly PHI 1st rd pick in ’22- So PHI TRADES Ben, Tobias,& I.Joe to Sac,,& PhIa 1st rd pick in ’22 to ATL
.76ers get J.Collins, T.Haliburton, H. Barnes, Holmes and Sac 1st in ’22
ATL gets PhI 1st in -22, Hield, Bagley,&
Silli had his antennae cut off. So cruel.
Kings should sell Barnes and Hield, trade Bagley for a similar aged player with potential and little to show for it, try and move TT and Len for any assets and take tobias Harris without Simmons, the start Halliburton Fox Metu Harris Holmes and start acquiring wing talent/depth in the offseason…
Bagley will not fetch anything, because he is an UFA this offseason, so basically you would just have to use his $11M salary as filler in part of a bigger package.
We don’t
Well if SAC says Fox ain’t going nowhere they mustn’t move him, right?
I totally hate teams that say that to straight away move the players, I just can’t stand liars, if you need to lie to get what you want, maybe you should be better at what you do so you could be honest, honesty always pays off well, dishonesty…well, not so much, right?
That was a stupid move. He’s not a winning player
This is a stupid statement He just barely turned 24 years old. Curry, Jordan, LeBron, Giannis, and Durant were at least 26 before they won there 1st championship.
Don’t forget Bobby Portis
Lol Fox is 24 and he isn’t winning squat in the next 2 or 3 years.
He’s nowhere near those guys.
I guess it makes sense to give the Fox and Haliburton pairing another year with some new pieces to see what happens. Personally, I’d probably trade Fox but it’s hard to fault that logic.
Then, that in turn means a lot of the other guys need to go. Hield, Bagley (even if for very little/filler), and Barnes, at the very least. Anything less would be a failure by the front office. This isn’t one of those situations where you would only players for the right return. Time to shake things up.
Oh really?
-Demar Derozen
Well if they are only willing to trade Barnes, bagley, and hield then they should be prepared to receive a bunch of 2nd round picks/marginal role players. You aren’t getting Sabonis or Simmons for that
Barnes is worth more than a second or a marginal role player to a contender. He’s not worth Simmons but he could be a high usage role player.
Simmons is only worth 2nd round picks and marginal role players.
According to Sixer fan, he is a head case, not a team player and has serious flaws in his game. He also is owed 30 million a year.
That is not worth anything more than 2nd round picks and salary filler.
…cue Sixer fan claiming he is an all star level talent…
CF….. I’m assuming these are initial for Confused Fella?
He is worth more than 2nds and role players.
2nd paragraph is mostly correct.
3rd paragraph is a repeat of the first incorrect paragraph.
4th line is sorta true. Borderline all-star. Not a slam dunk but when his is playing well he does a few things really well. Shooting just happens to not be one of them.
“…the Kings are once again leaning toward making Fox and Haliburton untouchable.”
If you’re going back and forth on their untouchability, then they’re not untouchable.
So they are saying right now they are touchable but could make them untouchable in the future.
They become untouchable right after the trade deadline passed. Then touchable in the offseason.
That’s the kiss of death…… haven’t watched Kings enough to comment. But with their history. Everyone should be on trade block.
Hot take lol
Saying “they don’t want to trade him” is very different than “we are not trading him”.
I wonder how serious they are about Sabonis or if his name is being used as leverage to get Simmons?
Ownership ch-ch-choking. They remember promises made to Fox in the past that Fox barely heard, for his own sake.