Winners, losers in three-team trade sending De’Aaron Fox to Spurs, Zach LaVine to Kings

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Chicago has been trying for more than a year to find a new home for Zach LaVine. De’Aaron Fox just popped up on the trade market last week.

Both are on the move in the second big NBA blockbuster trade in as many days — a three-team trade that pairs Fox with Victor Wembanyama and sends LaVine to Sacramento. The trade works for pretty much everyone involved. We had to look hard for losers, and the one we got isn’t really losing that much.

Let’s break down this trade, who won and who lost. That starts with the details of the trade itself:

Spurs receive: De’Aaron Fox, Jordan McLaughlin
Kings receive: Zach LaVine, Sidy Cissoko, three first-round picks (2025 Charlotte [which is top-14 protected, meaning it will become second-round picks in 2026 and 2027], 2027 San Antonio, 2031 Minnesota), and three second-round picks.
Bulls receive: Zach Collins, Tre Jones, Kevin Huerter, and they get their own 2025 first-round pick back from San Antonio.

WINNER: De’Aaron Fox

It was one of the worst-kept secrets in the NBA that De’Aaron Fox had his eye on getting to San Antonio and becoming the point guard who chases rings next to Victor Wembanyama. As tends to happen in the NBA, what the star player wants, the star player gets.

In addition, getting this trade done before the deadline gets the man paid. Fox (and his agent, Rich Paul) wanted this trade to happen before the Feb. 6 deadline so that he could sign a max extension to stay in San Antonio this summer. If he signs this summer his max extension is five-years, $296 million, if he signed as a free agent with another team the max was four years and $219 million. (The Spurs technically have some cap space to renegotiate his salary up and extend him off that number, but doing so cuts into the team’s flexibility to add other players.)

Fox wins because he gets what he wanted: To get paid on a team that should contend within a couple of seasons.

WINNER: San Antonio Spurs

The Spurs landed their All-Star level point guard of the future and did it without sacrificing Stephen Castle, Devin Vassell or Keldon Johnson, and they retain enough draft picks to make more bold moves in the future….

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Author : NBC Sports

Publish date : 2025-02-03 05:36:00

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