According to reports, De’Aron Fox accepts an extension of the maximum contract of 4 years, $ 229 million with San Antonio Spurs
De’Aron Fox has accepted an extension of the four -year contract and $ 229 million with the Spurs, According to Shams Charania by EspnWhile San Antonio continues to renew his list with places to build a contender in good faith around the Upper SuperStar Big Man Victor Wembanyama. The new agreement will keep Fox under contract with San Antonio during the 2029-30 season.
Fox, 27 years old, scored on average 23.5 points, 6.3 assists, 4.8 rebounds and 1.5 stolen in 36.1 minutes per game last season, shooting 46.3% from the field, 31% from 3 points and 82.7% from the free shooting line on 62 total appearances for the Spurs and the Kings. He had the second highest individual performance of the season, pouring in a career franchise and record Kings 60 points in a November victory over the Timberwolves.
On August 3 six months arrived since Fox landed in San Antonio in a three -team trade that concluded his mandate with the kings, seven seasons and a half after Sacramento developed him from Kentucky with the fifth overall choice in the draft NBA 2017. Fox agreed with a multiannual agreement seemed almost safe from the moment he arrived, given the clear preference for being in San Antonio who publicly confirmed Michael C. Espn Wright after trade.
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Once his agent, the CEO of Klutch Sports Rich Paul, informed sacrament of Fox’s desire to join the Spurs, the relationships emerged from the guard who told the club that had a list of favorite teams.
“There was no fucking list,” Fox said. “There was one team. I Wanted to go to San Antonio. I know, a lot of people are Mad at me, Saying i Handcuffed the Team by Giving Them a destination. Well, This is my career. If Anybody Else is in My Position, you’d the Same Thing. It’s Not My Job To Help Build Your Team. I’m Not About to Just Go Where [the Kings] I want me to go. I wanted to have a destination. “
Even after reaching that destination, however, hitting the six -month sign was the key. Since while Fox was suitable to sign an extension with the Spurs as soon as the NBA finals of 2025 ended, he had to wait a little longer to be able to ink the most profitable agreement available-one that reports the conviction of the Spurs that the former All-Star and All-Nba Point Sherve guard such as Buddy Caliber and table table for the conviction for years to come.
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Fox is one of the fastest, most explosive and prolific of the NBA score guards: a three -level marker that can break the opposing defenses from dribbling, climbing the teeth of the roof and punishing the opponents by pulling out of Midrance, finishing the cup or drawing a contact to reach the Foul line. It has an average of 24.3 points and 6.2 assists per game with 47.8% shooting in the last six seasons. The only other players to hit those numbers in that interval? Nikola Jokić, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Dončić and Lebron James.
This is a fairly decent company – and a rather surprising group, considering the relative lack of success that Fox met most of his time in Sacramento, as Vivek Ranadivé’s Kings have bounced from coach to coach, manager to the manager, vision to vision and, largely, loss for the loss of the first five professional seasons of Fox.
And then the kings took Mike Brown and suddenly sacrament became serious. A revised crime, built around the dribbling-handoff chemistry of Fox and the Domantas Sabonis game center, has risen to the top of the NBA in offensive efficiency, covering the club to relevance. “Light the Beam” has become a joyful meme, a battle cry, an article of faith.
Both Fox and Sabonis have gained all-star and all-nba. The extraordinary recovery and the game of Fox’s Flacymaking was worth the inaugural Clutch Player of the Year of the NBA. For the first time in 16 years, the kings carried out the playoffs, taking the Bay Big-Brriors area up to seven games in the first round of the post-stage of 2023; He made Fox break a finger on his shooting hand in the game 4 and Stephen Curry exploded for 50 points in the game 7, to end the breathtaking race of the kings.
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This, it turns out, was as beautiful as he would get. Despite continuing the star game from Fox, Sabonis and the sixth Malik Monk man, the Kings took a slight step back in 2023-24, descending from 48 wins and third place in the West at 46 wins and the ninth seed while the rest of the conference got around them. They would have exhausted a measure of revenge by eliminating Golden State in their first game of game tournaments, but they would lose against the Pellicani in their second, preventing them from returning to the playoffs for the second consecutive season-and preparing the stage for things to uncomfortable if the next campaign was about to start a rocky beginning.
Fast forward in December 2024 and … well, things have become rocky:
Already below .500 30 games in the season, the Kings have had the opportunity to end a series of loss of four games by eliminating the Upstart pistons the night after Christmas. But Fox put in touch with Detroit Jaden Ivey’s guard in the act of shooting a 3-pointer with 3.1 seconds from the end, resulting in a four-point game and a fifth consecutive loss.
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Subsequently, Brown was critical of Fox’s defense on that decisive final game. A day later, the kings shot Brown – a sudden and acute decision that led some to mirror, especially in the absence of any press conference by the front office to clarify the logic for the move, that Fox had gone to the Sacramento brass to ask for a change. Fox denied vehemence that, and while the decision makers of the kings continued to leave the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of Brown, the guard of the All-Star points, became increasingly dissatisfied of the state of affairs in the capital of California.
“I was like ‘Yo, I was here to go to my eighth year. If Mike is fired, I will go to my fifth coach,” Fox said to Espn. “And I said to them,” I won’t play for another coach. I will play for another team. “… At the chilling and not making an interview?
Frustrated by that lack of support, and according to what reported he fears of “the prospect of wasting his best years in a team that was watched in mediocrity”, Fox and Paul clarify that he felt his future external to sacrament. In particular, in San Antonio – Just a couple of hours west of Katy, Texas, where Fox played his ball at high school; Where his wife, Recebe, grew up; And where a certain French of 7 feet and 3 seems ready to conquer this sport.
“It’s like playing Steph,” Fox said to Espn. “Everyone cannot play with Steph because you always have to look for it. But in the end, that Motherf ***** can win the championships. And I think Vic can win the championships.”
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The Spurs have just seen Fox and Wembanyama together, with a couple of ailments – the trombosis of Wembanyama deep vein and the fracture of Fox’s little finger – limiting them to just 120 minutes shared in five games, with San Antonio who was exceeded by five points with them shared the floor. The new agreement represents a vote of trust that, with a clean health invoice and many more repetitions, the combination can produce significantly more positive results. It also allows San Antonio to give Dylan Harper-Che the Spurs have drawn up the n. 2 in total in the draft of the NBA of 2025 in June after a surprise increase in the lottery-a longer development catwalk, offering him the opportunity to slowly come behind a high-level professional game game, starting from a high-level village, instead of being the high-level door rather than the port of the house, the port of a year of reigning, the righteous one year of a year of a year reigning, that he has been put in reigning reasons instead of a high -year -old arrest of roots, starting from a village of a year of coordination. The spurs roster expected by many makes a jump this season.
How significant a jump depends mainly on Wembanyama, who has been authorized to return to time for the training field and could be paid for the consideration of MVP in his third season. How much does a leap that Wembanyama produces, however, could depend a lot on fox-the type of offensive engine that could make its life much easier and that could give San Antonio the type of punch to two and two two that makes the life of the opponents of the western conference much, much harder.