De’Aaron Fox to undergo season-ending surgery

According to NBA insider Shams Charania of ESPN, San Antonio Spurs point guard De’Aaron Fox will undergo season-ending surgery to repair tendon damage in his left pinkie.

Fox suffered the injury in October when he was still with the Sacramento Kings. The All-Star has been playing through pain and discomfort all season. 

The 27-year-old Fox will finish this season with averages of 23.5 points, 4.8 rebounds and 6.3 assists in 62 games with the Kings and Spurs while shooting 46.3% from the field, 31.0% from beyond the arc and 82.7% from the free-throw line. 

Fox is making $34,848,340 this season. He’ll make $37,096,620 next season in the final year of his contract. 

One of the fastest players in the NBA, Fox told NBA reporter Michael C. Wright of ESPN that he knew his time in Sacramento was over after Mike Brown was fired as head coach.

“I was like, ‘Yo, I’ve been here for going on my eighth year. If Mike gets fired, I’ll be going on my fifth coach,’” Fox told ESPN. “And I told them, ‘I’m not going to play for another coach. I’m going to play for another team.’”

Fox wasn’t happy the Kings didn’t do a media press conference after Brown was fired. The lefty knew he would get blamed for Brown getting fired since Sacramento’s front office didn’t talk. 

“You fire the coach, and you don’t do an interview?” Fox said. “So, all the blame was on me. Did it weigh on me? No. I don’t give a f—. But the fact y’all are supposed to be protecting your player and y’all let that happen. … I felt at the time the organization didn’t have my back.

“The energy shifted and what’s understood doesn’t need to be explained. If I finished my contract there, then they knew what was going to happen next and it was because y’all fired another coach. That’s why I said in the interview after Mike was fired and we were in L.A. [on Dec. 28], they knew where I stood and there was nothing more to be said.”