It’s NBA award week, and Kings star De’Aaron Fox has just become the latest player to get recognized for his performance this season. For the first time in NBA history, De’Aaron has been named the Clutch Player of the Year for his role in closing games for the 3rd-seeded Kings.
Fox led the league in fourth-quarter points and was extremely efficient with a shooting percentage hovering around 50% in those moments. After so many losing seasons in Sacramento, Fox has really blossomed as the closer for this Kings group and experts are finally ranking him with some of the best point guards in the league.
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Now, they are facing their biggest test yet against the defending champions in the first round, and they are rising to the occasion.
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With Domantas Sabonis directing the offense in the middle, and De’Aaron Fox outrunning everybody, the Kings are proving to be impossible to stop and even the Warriors have failed to provide an answer.
Up 2-0 going into San Francisco, Fox’s team can make a statement with a win on Wednesday.
“I’m very worried about the Golden State Warriors,” said Smith. “De’Aaron Fox is special, and I’m talking potentially Ja Morant kinda special, I’m talking about when Derrick Rose was at the height of his career. He’s unguardable. They cannot guard him… I looked at Sacramento last night and I was like this, ‘Oh my lord.’ I have been asleep on these brothers.”
All-in-all, this has been an impressive season for the Kings. While there are many who still haven’t bought into them as a contender, the Kings can prove everyone wrong if they close out this series quickly and show they can subvert expectations.
As for Fox, it’s criminal he wasn’t named an All-Star this season. Over a mostly up-and-down career in Sac-Town, he’s finally in a good situation on a team that’s tailored to drive his greatest strengths.
Now all that’s left for him to do is keep doing what he’s done all season long and show the world that he’s not just the regular-season performer people thought he was. De’Aaron, and the kIngs, are for real and nobody can take them lightly any longer.
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