He got a no trade clause for one team and it’s Sacramento
I was also hoping for a slightly less than the max in the last couple of years or at least a 3+1 rather than outright 4 year extension, but it was always goinig to be in the ballpark. Oh well.
On the bright side, this should help the Spurs make up their mind on moving Vassell/Keldon and not rushing on that Sochan extension. Or at least I hope so.
Last edited by Ariel; 08-04-2025 at 02:41 PM.
Spurs were alreaedy invested in Fox and it would have been a bad look not to offer him that extension. In reality, Fox probably asked for a player option and a trade kicker, Spurs probably offered slightly less, and this was the deal both knew they could safely get. Let's hope he stays healthy as does Wemby, if things work out for the best then that "trouble" will be a nice one.
Fox’s “give” to the Spurs was naming them as the only team he’d re-sign with. We got him for a ridiculously reduced asset cost. Had we not made the deal, the picks could very well have conveyed as 2 firsts and a small pile of seconds. I think someone put the odds of the Chicago pick conveying in the next two drafts at 80%. I think that’s probably high,but working with that,it was approx 2.8 FRPs.
Only upside to this contract is if and when they trade Fox, it's when Harper's and Castle's skills are on the up and hope by then that those 2 are almost at starter level...... plus I think they bring in Juan Nunez
You know how Manu and Timmy and Pop and others come and work out at the Spurs' facility and continue to be part of the Spurs legacy going forward? That's not De'Aaron Fox. Once he gets traded or whatever, we'll never see him again. He's out there for himself and his made up NFT rug-pulls. He's not a Spurs guy, he's a mercenary who forced himself here because he knew Klutch would get him a max contract. I hope to God he doesn't loaf around and actually tries to win games -- something he wasn't actually good at with the Kings. But personality wise, I just don't see it, man. He's wearing Spurs laundry, but he's not a Spurs guy.
A positive to Fox's contract is that there's more of a chance role players don't get any more than role player money going forward. Much better argument to be made to role players like Sochan when you have max salary guys on the team, you just can't afford to be doing friendly deals. Hopefully that'll trickle to the fringe starter players such as Keldon and Vassell. Team has to utilize money different when it has star players. The majority of the Spurs young guys haven't experienced that before this year.
Dude…? How old are you? Read what you said again. “One he gets traded”.. I mean WHO TF would come back and hang around the facilities if they got traded? Use common sense please. Those guys didn’t get traded. If you would have said “Even if Fox finishes his career as a Spur then he still won’t come around like those guys” it would have made sense.. but even then I highly doubt it would play out like that. He would definitely come back if he finished his career in SA at this point. , Tony didn’t play his whole as a Spur and he doesn’t come around as much as Tim and Manu. Yes he’s busy a lot but I’m sure he feels a bit differently than those 2. What player comes back once they are traded? LMA comes back but his situation is a bit different. It’s all cir stantial. Anyways what’s the point, I’m done with this ridiculousness for the night. The season needs to hurry up.
the lead guard
Committing to 3 downhill guards. Luckily we have the best stretch 5 in the game.
Jesus. did you learn all of that from Fox News?
I like how Tony was conveniently left off this post. You know, the second or third most important Spur in Timmy’s era. Is it because a lot of what he did and who he is wasn’t Spurs-like at all? Sooooo, it IS possible for a player to be both important to the Spurs and not have any Spurs quality at all. Hmmmmmm…. Maybe it’s pointless to be overcritical of Fox and his so called lack of character when Parker looms all over Spurs history.
c'mon man...
this is not the old age/old school/traditional sports era...
this is the age where every single professional athlete is aware that they have maybe a dozen years of income to earn to last them the rest of their lives...
loyalties/jersey retirements/old decades long rivalries/warriors laying it all out for their one and only franchise...
those days are gone.
I like fox. I like mostly all players on this spurs team right now. Many of them will be wearing different jerseys over the next few years and good for them.
Your brain/mind has stagnated and its not unheard of... it happens to a lot of folks.
Fox just posted on IG “Race for Seis” - a term not commonly known by people who aren’t die hard Spurs fans yet he’s being called out for not having any Spurs-like qualities. What a joke.
but even if it turns out that he’s not a “Spurs guy”, who the cares? It’s weird to be so intolerant of people who don’t fall in line with certain ideals. Being different is ok, and people who are unapologetically themselves is actually cool. I’d rather have that than a brown nosing Spur who just repeats the company motto. Or worse, a two faced one who says all the right things but does terrible things in the background.
Non-Spur De'Aaron Fox was at the summer league games, rooting on the new rookies, and was at a lot of games last season in street clothes, when he didn't have to be. By all reports, he was liked by the team and the community in SAC right up until such time he got sick of losing. In fact, Kings fans weren't even that mad at him for wanting to leave, it's only when he tanked his value (and SAC's return on the deal) that Kings fans turned on him.
I guess if you can't find any real reasons to hate Fox, you have to turn to imaginary ones.
He would have gotten a max contract in Houston, Miami, or wherever else he would have tried to get traded to also. If he just wanted a max contract he could have stayed in Sacramento.
I guess it helps that his wife is from San Antonio
On the Deep 3 podcast last season towards the end of the season, he also brought up that he's keeping a close eye on Atlanta's finish to the season (he didn't want them to do well) as he mentioned to the host of the show that the Spurs have their draft pick. He is really clued in to what is going on with the Spurs. That does not sound to me like someone that isn't a Spurs guy. Other guys on the roster that have been there longer might not have even know that, or follow that kind of off the court stuff that closely. De'Aaron knew all that and probably more. He was probably one of the happiest guys when the Spurs got the number 2 pick. I doubt he was looking at it like this is a guy that can take my spot.
He is probably the best downhill pg in the league. Harper is also a downhill point guard.
Foxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx will rule
Mr. Body loves scrubs like Primo and Branham. I don't take that boomer loser seriously most of the time
This is a much bigger factor than people believe, tbh. There's a personal and mental factor to the game behind the on-court stuff.
Recee Fox grew up in San Antonio, played professional basketball in Texas her whole life. Family, friends, social circles all closely tied to San Antonio and naturally to the Spurs, being the only major-league franchise on the city. She's by all accounts a very vocal and present influence in De'Aaron's life -- I loved that video of her arguing with Malik Monk after the Kings game; it showed she cares about . She's no NBA trophy wife bimbo.
And then she goes and marries an NBA player, who then happened to have the possibility to be traded.... And they continuously pushed for San Antonio, helping make it a reality. Now they're home -- with everything that comes with it: the expectations, the family and friends at the games watching her husband play, the desire to leave a mark in the history of the city.
I couldn't think of a better person to be around Fox than his wife, really. Where the "cards" seemed to be stacked against us during the Nephew saga, with a close family member who despised small-market SA and wanted the big lights and "opportunities" of LA, now the cards seem to be working entirely in our favor with Fox.
I'm expecting a career season out of him next year.
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