Fox grateful for ‘stability’ Brown’s extension brings to Kings

Fox grateful for ‘stability’ Brown’s extension brings to Kings originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Kings fans let out a collective sigh of relief when Mike Brown agreed to a contract extension with Sacramento, but perhaps no one was as relieved as Kings star point guard De’Aaron Fox.

Fox, who has experienced four different coaches during his seven-year NBA career with the Kings, discussed what it means to him personally to have a sense of stability within the organization.

“I talked to him. I’ve been with [Kings assistant coach] Luke Loucks a lot and kind of talked about the situation a little bit right before and then right after,” Fox said Wednesday at his basketball camp in Rocklin, Calif (h/t ABC10’s Matt George). “We always talk about having that type of stability. It’s not saying you want to become stagnant or anything like that, but just knowing that you’re going to have kind of a core and then a coach — obviously in this league, [ex-Detroit Pistons coach] Monty Williams just got fired today, so it could always change in the blink of an eye.

“You never know. But just to feel like you have that stability going forward is definitely great and you look to build off of that.”

Spoke with De’Aaron Fox (and Reign) at Fox’s basketball camp in Rocklin today.

Fox spoke about Mike Brown’s contract extension and the stability it brings to the Kings organization. pic.twitter.com/DYnVHm862t

— Matt George (@MattGeorgeSAC) June 19, 2024

Fox entered the league in 2017 after going No. 5 overall to Sacramento. He played his first two seasons under Dave Joerger before the coach was fired. The Kings hired Luke Walton as their next head coach in 2019, finishing both the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons in 12th place in the Western Conference.

After a 6-11 start to the 2021-22 season, Walton was fired and interim head coach Alvin Gentry took over for the remainder of the season — a campaign the Kings once again finished 12th in the West.

And then everything changed for the Kings and the basketball-loving city of Sacramento.

Brown was hired as the team’s coach for the 2022-23 season and brought winning basketball back to the…

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Publish date : 2024-06-20 00:28:31

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