Why De’Aaron Fox hasn’t talked to the media in 16 days | The Athletic NBA Show

Why De’Aaron Fox hasn’t talked to the media in 16 days | The Athletic NBA Show

But yeah what they going to do yeah they need to make a move man they definitely bounced back last night uh against the Hawks but you know they hit that patch yeah is exactly they’ve hit that patch where it’s it’s kind of it’s kind of

Very clear like if they wna get over the hump they’ve got to do something right I mean they’re a good team but if it just feels like something is something is needed I I can almost sense it in Mike Brown where he’s like this ain’t enough

Man a this ain’t enough I need a little bit more I hear you uh I don’t know what they’re going to do The Vibes are off that’s the way I’ll put it like they’re not great um you know I think some of the guys Kevin herder comes to mind

Harrison Barnes comes to mind you know we know them with Davon Mitchell are widely known to be available I think if you go back to last season and they were this Cinderella team and they break the playoff drought and and they’re you know the the the energy in the city was so

Incredible and really for local Kings audience like that is a team that will probably to some degree be forever celebrated because they kind of ended the drought but um but then fast forward to this year and the reality is with Monty McNair and Wes Willcox in the

Front office and and Mike Brown and the way he’s wired they didn’t have any intentions of of just kind of running it back and and just trying to have fun with with the same Squad and so then you see and this this happened early you know Kevin herder was falling out of the

Rotation early on and I and I felt like he became the poster boy for like this player who was I think personally so fulfilled by what they all accomplished last year and then had a connection with the fans and and I think in a guy like

That’s mine like he found a spot for a while and then it’s like you know you have a bad start to the season now yeah and you quickly learn like oh no uh it’s actually Fox AB bonus and Keegan Murray and everybody else is on the table everybody else is Expendable yeah yeah

Right and you see stuff it’s been a weird time so like and you never know I don’t want to connect dots that don’t exist but like the tension and and the energy is is strange right now uh you might have seen in the news this morning

And it was honestly a little slow to come to light like dearon fox has has not spoken to the media um for for he went 16 days without talking to the media what yeah is that right yeah and it it was uh that’s the part that I mean

I do have a decent amount of clarity on I’m probably not going to share everything publicly but it’s like he’s it’s a weird one where he got criticized after they lost to New Orleans and at one point they were down 50 in a home game a couple weeks back yes remember

That yep and it got highlighted uh and Mike Brown was asked essentially why in these one-sided blowout losses um is your Leadership Council which he’s talked before about who that is it’s I think Fox and sabonis I forget who all is in it but it’s a small group of guys

So the question was basically you know why don’t these guys talk after blowout losses they had Keon Ellis up at the podium um you know to me it’s a fair question but I I think in the wake of that um you know Darren was upset with

The the way that that you know he took some criticism there uh it was reported in the Sacramento B today that that that night that he uh he had actually not been asked to talk he had had a bad game and they were trying to give him a night

Off I believe and it just it’s a bad set of circumstances to where um he just went dark and so that’s its own thing but then you have you know in a little speculation here but like Harrison Barnes is not talking much U and it feels very much like you

Know he he’s a a grown man who’s aware that he’s on the Block and doesn’t feel like he’s been through this before yeah yeah right I know how this ends right right so it’s like there’s a lot of that it’s the anti dejonte Murray Vibe if you

Will um you know these guys are not taking it as well I don’t think and and everybody’s playing the waiting game so I don’t know what they’ll do you know lately and some of this is out there uh this is in your neck of the woods da you

Know some Kyle kosma chatter y that I think could be real I think a Jeremy Grant kind of aspiration that Portland probably is not going to cooperate with um yeah you know but they’re aggressive and I think they know they got to do something uh I would say it’s G to be

Very costly to get Kyle kosma because not because of his stature I’m not nobody is under the impression the illusion that he’s a you know all NBA level player but he’s the best player the Wizards have so you know so they’re going to ask for a lot for him uh and

Rightly so um because they can lose with them they can lose without them so if they’re gonna lose without them they need to get something really good for him and I think it will have to more that’s all right it will have to be more than probably what Toronto got for SE

Yakum let’s put it that way you know that’s not gonna get it done so we’ll see we’ll see no I never say never but we’ll see

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