Amick: De’Aaron Fox requests trade

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Capt. Factorial said:
The point is that whoever gets Fox is getting him in the best years of his career. He's not like Castle, a guy that is still unfinished and developing into who-knows-what, and he's not like DeRozan, a great player that is on the decline phase of his career. He's an all-star level PG, and promises to be at that level for say 6 years.
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And also it's not like the Spurs aren't expecting Wembanyama to be a force in that time frame. The Spurs could wait for the young guys to develop around him, but this might be a scenario where they have the tools to keep that on track while adding a Fox. They can piecemeal those picks out for lesser players, or draft with them. Good luck, that's not how it typically goes and teams that attempt to usually end up disappointed in the end or stuck in a perpetual position of being a year away from a year away because they're building a talent core and not an actual team. Unless they are tossing BPA out the window which is another example of fail tactics more often than not.
 
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UK_King said:
Just trade for as many future firsts as you can. This team is going nowhere with or without Fox and it’s been that way for years.

we had one good season largely down to the health of the other teams. And despite that still couldn’t get out of the first round.
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They took the defending champs to 7 games, that has nothing to do with health around the league. I hate this narrative. Why didn’t they win nearly 50 games in any other season when they were healthy?
 
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SacTownKid said:
I'm not necessarily talking about him as a player, I'm talking about how the league tends to mysteriously warp HOW the game is played around it's stars. This is their guy. Their chosen ones tend to get to play the game a little differently than the rest. Whether that's hit people in the face with elbows, or clearly travel as a main move, haha.
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Would be interesting to know what is said or implied to the officials, behind the scenes by the league
 
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Tetsujin said:
https://twitter.com/statuses/1885801852765384898

he gone (Fox that is)
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The best legacy that Fox will be leaving is helping bring Monk to the Kings.

Not to rehash old trades, but I think Monte probably made the wrong bet on which point guard to keep a couple of years ago. Not to say that Hali is a better player than Fox, but I think Hali is loyal to the core and would had re-signed to stay long term in Sacramento. And in the NBA, you can't buy loyalty.
 
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ockingsfan said:
The best legacy that Fox will be leaving is helping bring Monk to the Kings.

Not to rehash old trades, but I think Monte probably made the wrong bet on which point guard to keep a couple of years ago. Not to say that Hali is a better player than Fox, but I think Hali is loyal to the core and would had re-signed to stay long term in Sacramento. And in the NBA, you can't buy loyalty.
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Hali would have been a kings for life. So would cousins. Loyalty is number 1 in a small market. You can't make people who want to be famous stay in Sacramento. The two don't work together.

Fox is a family man. On the surface, kings where perfect for him. Then he got hooked up with Lebron and Klutch. Small market and Klutch don't match. He's getting played into being someone he's not. Sad
 
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ockingsfan said:
The best legacy that Fox will be leaving is helping bring Monk to the Kings.

Not to rehash old trades, but I think Monte probably made the wrong bet on which point guard to keep a couple of years ago. Not to say that Hali is a better player than Fox, but I think Hali is loyal to the core and would had re-signed to stay long term in Sacramento. And in the NBA, you can't buy loyalty.
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Monk is great, way more personalty and entertaining than Fox. I'd gladly ride with him as lead guard.
With today's talk of a Miami trade, just wonder how tempted he might be to join his two college buddies in a couple years.
 
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ockingsfan said:
The best legacy that Fox will be leaving is helping bring Monk to the Kings.

Not to rehash old trades, but I think Monte probably made the wrong bet on which point guard to keep a couple of years ago. Not to say that Hali is a better player than Fox, but I think Hali is loyal to the core and would had re-signed to stay long term in Sacramento. And in the NBA, you can't buy loyalty.
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Fox did seem to embrace Sacramento as a young player but between Reece and Klutch his commitments may be pulled elsewhere.
 
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ockingsfan said:
The best legacy that Fox will be leaving is helping bring Monk to the Kings.

Not to rehash old trades, but I think Monte probably made the wrong bet on which point guard to keep a couple of years ago. Not to say that Hali is a better player than Fox, but I think Hali is loyal to the core and would had re-signed to stay long term in Sacramento. And in the NBA, you can't buy loyalty.
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Hali is better from the simple fact that he makes others better. Just like Sabonis makes other better. Fox doesn’t have that trait.
 
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Tizzy Flip said:
Hali is better from the simple fact that he makes others better. Just like Sabonis makes other better. Fox doesn’t have that trait.
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In some ways perhaps, but Fox has the traits of a player that helps you win once the REAL season starts and that's the playoffs. It doesn't matter how much you can swing the ball around, if you can't feed yourself you and your team starve. Getting points without help is and has always been the most key of key factors when it's all on the line. The question is what level he is on that scale but he is on the scale somewhere.
 
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SacTownKid said:
In some ways perhaps, but Fox has the traits of a player that helps you win once the REAL season starts and that's the playoffs. It doesn't matter how much you can swing the ball around, if you can't feed yourself you and your team starve. Getting points without help is and has always been the most key of key factors when it's all on the line. The question is what level he is on that scale but he is on the scale somewhere.
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Not sure I can follow that logic with Hali’s playoff record vs Fox’s
 
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Rob-The-Great said:
Hali would have been a kings for life. So would cousins. Loyalty is number 1 in a small market. You can't make people who want to be famous stay in Sacramento. The two don't work together.

Fox is a family man. On the surface, kings where perfect for him. Then he got hooked up with Lebron and Klutch. Small market and Klutch don't match. He's getting played into being someone he's not. Sad
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Or... he's just a family man who's from Texas, who's wife is also from Texas, who would prefer to be in Texas to be closer to his family and to his wife's family, so their kids can grow up closer to the place the Fox's consider home? I swear, people go looking for conspiracy so unnecessarily these days...
 
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Tizzy Flip said:
Not sure I can follow that logic with Hali’s playoff record vs Fox’s
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You mean the 1 so far? What's his record without Siakam? They added an impact guy for him. If Hali were asked to be that guy, well, we kind of have a clue already what that might look like. Team makeup does matter, if you want Fox to be a teams true PG then yeah, wrong guy.
 
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