Spurs May Not Pay De’Aaron Fox According To Marc Stein

Spurs May Not Pay De’Aaron Fox According To Marc Stein

What’s going on everyone? So today was De’aran Fox extension day and there’s been a lot of reports, a lot of conversations, a lot of questions surrounding De’aran Fox in the San Antonio Spurs. What are they going to do? Are they going to give him that contract? Are they going to give him the max extension? Or is it going to be, you know, max extension but the fewer years, right? A three-year maybe max, something along those lines. Well, we got to today and nothing, right? They have not signed the extension. And to put things in perspective, a guy like Luca literally the moment, right? He was expected to sign today. He actually signed yesterday when it officially became official, right? Because usually teams, if you’re the guy and we’re just going to give you the max, there’s no games. It’s you sign them, right? But again, you continue to hear reports, you continue to hear all this noise of like, hey, the San Antonio Spurs since getting Dylan Harper changed everything. And I’ve talked about this for months and I’ve gotten push back and push back and push back, but it’s the reality, right? Whether whether we want to face it or not, it’s the reality. Now, that doesn’t mean that that Dear and Fox won’t sign the Max and that the San Antonio Spurs won’t give it to him, but usually if both sides know, hey, we’re just going to give you the Max, usually it’s a done deal immediately, right? very rarely does it get drawn out unless sides are negotiating or someone is kind of reserved, right? Like that’s the problem. And now you have Mark Stein who recently came out and gave a report um basically diving into his extension today and said that uh him getting an extension, a max contract extension is not seen as automatic. So, there is a lot of talks again still that it’s not guaranteed that the San Antonio Spurs are going to pay Darren Fox what he wants, which is why I’ve talked about potentially trading Darren Fox. Why I’ve talked about Darren Fox might be the one to initiate the trade cuz he might like he might feel slighted and looked at it as like, “Hey, I chose you. I came here. I came to you and you guys decided now because you got this shiny new toy that you don’t want to pay me what I’m worth.” And the serious question is he is he even worth the max? Is it even worth you paying the max salary in order to bring in De’Aran Fox, right? I don’t think he’s a 50 million a year guy or 42, right? Whatever it would be that he’d get, right? Like I just I don’t think that he’s worth that amount, right? He’s going to make the same amount of money as Luca Donic. Now, to be fair, Luca would have gotten the super backs, but he was traded still, right? Like Darren Fox, like where does he range? I think he’s closer to like a $30 million guy because what has he accomplished? What has he achieved? Right? Like and and this is the problem. This is the dilemma that the Spurs have. If they didn’t get Dylan Harper automatic, right? No questions asked. They pay him. They give him the money. There’ still be the conversation of would he be would he have been worth it? But they would have given him the money because that’s the guy that they wanted that was going to lead the franchise as the starting point guard. They didn’t know. And this is what I keep trying to reiterate. They did not know that they were going to get Dylan Harper. They did not know that Stefan Castle was going to look as good as he is, right? They did not see the future. Otherwise, they might have not have done that trade. If they knew we’re going to get uh Dylan Harper, right? They probably never do the De’arren Fox trade, but because they ended up doing it and now they got Dylan Har, now they’re at this impass, right? So the idea that he’s just auto like he’s going to get this you know this max contract and everything’s going to be great. Don’t be shocked the the whole hey he you know he could end up getting traded. People keep saying like absolutely not. Don’t be shocked. Again I don’t know. I’m not in the front office. I’m not you know on the phones but I’ve taken a lot of heat for talking about this and we’re here and there’s no contract. again. Maybe they will. But my whole thing, the whole reason that I keep talking about this and I brought it up and I talked about this literally months ago, the I talked about this when we drafted Dylan Harper, right? And I talked about like, does this change things? And and clearly the Spurs feel feel that way because if they didn’t, they would have paid him, right? The Lakers knew, hey, Luca extension, boom, let’s go. Luca goes, extension. Boom. No questions, no nothing. Do a whole press conference, end up going to a Backstreet Boys concert, all of that, right? Living their best life. The Spurs were supposed to do that with De’Aran Fox and then they landed Dylan Harper and it changes everything for this team. Again, I keep talking about it. The Spurs are going to get expensive and they’re going to get expensive fast and it starts with De’arra and Fox right now. It’s very po there’s several ways that this could go. they could, you know, hold off, kind of see, engage, and, you know, maybe at the trade deadline they trade him. They could trade him this off season, right? Darren Fox, like I mentioned, could request a trade and go, you know what? Hey, get me out of here, right? Like there’s a lot of different scenarios in which this could go. There’s also the path that they just give him the max, right? So it is even even in this same report it’s expected that um according to Brett Seagull right a report Sunday that the talks around the NBA is that Fox will likely sign an extension worth slightly less than the max right so there’s been a lot of talks about him you know maybe getting the full years but not at a full max um or him getting a max but on shorter years right kind of line his contracts up with a Stefon Castle and a Dylan Harper right so maybe do like a three-year deal like a three-year max rather than, you know, the the longer max where it’s like, okay, now he basically what Luca did, right? Luca got the the no threeyear max, but that’s more of just like he’ll make more money type thing. So maybe they do something like that with De’aran Fox and then his money kind of falls off. he goes wherever he’s going to go. And then the Spurs, they get to go and bring in and and pay, not bring in, but pay uh Dylan Harper and Stefan Castle, or I guess Stefon Castle and then Dylan Harper kind of go that route, that manner, right? I don’t think we’re out of the woods yet, though. again like there is clearly a reason he didn’t sign his max extension today cuz it’s usually pretty you know you want the max we want to give you the max easy boom sign it here it is here’s the paperwork right and the fact that they didn’t and look this was this again there have been several reports from several different people that have all said the same thing and you know again at times everything’s kind of you know it’s all noise till you really see things. But like what’s the general consensus? And the general consensus is the Spurs might not want to give him the money because they got Dylan Harper. Now I understand the argument of well because you have Dylan Harper, right? We don’t know what Fox can do. We don’t know what Dylan Harper can do. I get all that. But if you’re the Spurs, do you really want to commit to a guy that you’re unsure about? There’s a lot of questions about De’arian Fox coming out of Sacramento, right? He had one good season and he lost in the first round. That was the best season he had with Sacramento. He lost in the first round. There’s a lot of questions about him being a leader, being one of the top players on your team, so on and so forth, right? And then he comes to the Spurs and the Spurs give up literally nothing to get him. None of their key pieces, none of their, you know, future guys, nothing. and the Spurs were worse. Right now, in his defense, it’s harder to integrate a, you know, a number one option, a a higherend guy than it is just like your role player, right? Because a role player, it’s like, hey, you know what, you’ve done your whole career. Yeah, just do that here, right? Where a star, they’re used to getting x amount of shots and opportunity, especially if they’re not coming to be just like the guy, they’re coming in to be one of the guys. So again, Spurs and and Darren Fox are not out of the woods yet in that regard. We’ll see what ends up happening, but don’t be shocked again if he ends up getting traded or he requests a trade or something. But let me know your thoughts and opinions down in the comments. That being said, like this video, hit that like button. Helps me out enjoy these types of videos and I truly appreciate it. Not subscribe channel, hit that subscribe button, turn on the bell notifications. Appreciate you. I’ll see you in the next one. Thank you.

The San Antonio Spurs and De’Aaron Fox need to come to an agreement to a new contract extension. Spurs originally planned to pair Fox and Victor Wembanyama long term but then landed Dylan Harper which through a wrench into all of it.

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