Hours before making his Spurs debut tonight in Atlanta, De’Aaron Fox already seemed comfortable with his new team, writes Michael C. Wright of ESPN. San Antonio was Fox’s preferred destination when he informed the Kings that he wasn’t interested in extending his contract beyond 2026. At this morning’s shootaround, Fox talked about the chance to team up with Victor Wembanyama and join an organization loaded with young talent.
“It’s a very unique opportunity,” he said. “Not many guys come around like that. And I think it’s not just him, but everybody else. With the way they’re built, with the athleticism, with the length that they have and also the youth, I just felt like this could be a special team. I felt like the fit would be spectacular, and I feel like I have a lot of years left to play. Some people say you kind of expedited [San Antonio’s development] process. But you look at a team like [Oklahoma City], where outside of Shai (Gilgeous-Alexander) and I think outside of (Alex Caruso), everybody else is pretty much on a rookie contract. I feel like we can do the same thing.”
Fox will now be an important part of that equation. He received a text from a member of the Spurs’ organization on Monday talking about the need to overcome “dry spells” as the team’s offense bogged down during a loss to Memphis. Fox is regularly one of the league’s best crunch-time scorers, which will be a welcome addition to a San Antonio team that’s just 9-11 in clutch games this season.
“Excited to see what it looks like,” new teammate Chris Paul said. “I’ve known Fox for a while. To get a chance to play alongside him, it’s going to be a lot of fun.”
There’s more from the Southwest Division:
- The Mavericks are offering refunds to angry fans who canceled their season tickets over the Luka Doncic trade, according to Tim MacMahon of ESPN. Several fans staged a protest Sunday outside American Airlines Center, with some holding up signs criticizing general manager Nico Harrison.
- Mavericks center Daniel Gafford was able to practice today after hurting his shoulder in Tuesday’s game at Philadelphia, tweets Tim Bontemps of ESPN. “I’m fine. It was just obviously a scare,” he told Mike Curtis of The Dallas Morning News (Twitter link). “It was probably one of the worst stingers that I’ve had coming down this stretch. But it’s OK. Kind of like a shooting pain down my arm last night so it scared me because I didn’t want it to be more of a major injury than what I was expecting. It was just a regular old stinger, so I’ll be fine.”
- Trey Murphy has become the second player in Pelicans history to reach 40 points in two straight games, notes Rod Walker of NOLA. He scored 24 points in the third quarter Monday night, which ties a franchise record for most points in a quarter.
- Pelicans guard Dejounte Murray posted a photo from his hospital bed after undergoing surgery for a torn Achilles tendon (Twitter link). “Thank you God for a successful surgery,” Murray wrote. “Road to recovery starts now.”
Mavericks fans will continue to protest Luka Doncic-Lakers trade
My prediction
Mavs are likely to get knocked out in the first round of playoffs this season
OMG, Kyrie and Klay are very old. They don’t have firepower.
Has any other owner offered refunds like that before? Legitimate question I never heard it happen before
Conspiracy hat on … but I think they’ll make more once they hit the playoffs. They can resell those seats at a premium. It’s not like AD is terrible and if he can stay healthy, the Mavs aren’t a bad team. It’s just changing up their flow a bit.
they won’t stay healthy and they will be a bad team
Still a really nice thing to do for the fans who feel like they were “cheated” even if greedy motives are behind it for the future
@Jdubbs420 not sure if this is the same thing, but the Suns owner introduced a $2 menu because he was disgusted that no options were under $8, which was a bottle of water. In a way thats refunding the people for overpaying all those years.
That’s actually pretty dope. Thanks for sharing that
See man no hostility we can all get along and just talk sports no problem. Cheers to ya
That wasnt a refund. Thats changing the menu after the fact that some were already charged the $8 charge without getting a refund for the overprice.
That’s still cool I’m in La and go to a good amount of games here and LV Knights games. $2 menus are unheard of at those games. Completely different but still really cool to hear
Angels game is relatively cheap for a pro sports game. $4.50 beers.
The food at Angels stadium though. Last time I went Filipino heritage night this last season. 2 pizzas 2 nachos and 2 drinks cost like 60-70 bucks. And when I say 2 pizzas.. the pizza is the size of a hot pocket
Tallballer, there you go again with your positive outlook on life!
Guy asked for an example of another refund situation. What was presented was not a refund situation. Does not take a genius to see the answer presented was not appropriate.
Ill end this with a quote “birds of the same feather flock together” :)
Nice talking to you aristotle J
Semantics
It’s nice talking to you, as well, Tallballer. Evidently Im not on my game today.
Come on fellas it’s all good. Sure it wasn’t in the sense of ticket refunds but it was a nice gesture an owner made for the fans. I loved hearing it to be honest, the Suns have a great owner! I didn’t take what TallBaller said as bad thing either. Apples and oranges were all here for the same reason we all really enjoy sports. Cheers to everyone on these forums! Yes I’m high but I’m happy high :)
Guys are so spicy on this site. It makes the articles more interesting even tho half the time it has nothing to do with sports but just ppl wanting to be right.
Fox 24 pts, 13 ast, 5 reb in a one pt win over Hawks
Gotta love it …… Castle with two monster dunks.
Spurs are coming ……. better recognize