Sacramento Kings star De’Aaron Fox is in the middle of the storm of firing Mike Brown after the head coach criticized his defensive effort during a crucial play on Thursday that cost them a win against the Detroit Pistons.
Brown and Fox were seen having an extended one-on-one talk at practice about an hour and a half before the 54-year-old was fired, which led to speculations about De’Aaron’s impact on the situation. The 27-year-old addressed the issue on Saturday after being asked if he felt “pressure or guilt” about Mike getting the pink slip in Sac Town.
“We all know the job that we have,” he said. “You can be traded at any point, released, cut, fired, or whatever it may be. I wouldn’t use the word guilt, but that’s the nature of the job that we have. Obviously, him signing his extension this summer, we thought we’d be together a whole lot longer, but that’s the decision that they made.” …