Hours before De’aaron Fox returned to Sacramento for his first game against his former club, he explained what most of the Kings fans probably didn’t want to hear. “I really wanted to play my entire career for one team,” he told ESPN on Friday. “I really did that.”
This is part of the reasons why the guard received a standing ovation during his first game back in Golden 1 Center since the club traded him to San Antonio on three February. The exchange was part of a deal with three teams with several players and concept choices.
Despite his wishes to sit, he landed with the traces, next to superstars Victor Wembanyama and Chris Paul. Before their competition in North California, Fox insisted that he ‘had never asked for a profession’, of the franchise who set him up eight years ago.
“I thought it was great,” he said about his former club. “Everyone bleed purple. It was always great to just go to the supermarket and go to a restaurant. Everyone there was extremely nice. And when we started winning, it was ‘light the beam’ everywhere. You really felt it in the city. So it was definitely a great place to be as long as I was. “
The kings started the 2024-25 campaign on the wrong foot, with a bad 13-18 start that led to the dismissal of coach Mike Brown during his third season in Sacramento. Only seven months after his resignation, the tactician was rewarded with a multi -year extension during last year’s late season.
De’aaron, on the other hand, was established next season to grafting his last campaign on his five -year contract. However, he had warned the organization that he wanted to play for coach Brown and had rejected to sign an extension last summer. After the team of coach had changed, he felt that his time was over.
“I had something like:” Yo, I was here to go at the age of eighth. When Mike is fired, I go to my fifth coach, “the guard told the press for the sentimental matchup of Friday.” And I said to them: “I’m not going to play for another coach. I’m going to play for another team.”
