The San Antonio Spurs seemingly made blunder after blunder late in the fourth quarter of Game 4 of the NBA Finals against the New York Knicks, and perhaps the biggest one came from De’Aaron Fox who probably could have put the Spurs in the driver’s seat with seconds left had he just tried to dribble out the clock.
After a Spurs’ defensive stop, the ball was batted out towards midcourt with De’Aaron Fox chasing down the loose ball and attempting to score instead of being patient for the anticipated Knicks’ intentional foul. He didn’t have a good angle at the basket and OG Anunoby blocked the shot, setting in motion the Knicks’ eventual Game 4 win.
While you can point to many different things that the Spurs did wrong, social media went ablaze singling out Fox’s blunder, harkening back to his time with the Sacramento Kings.
You took Fox out of Sacramento but the Kings never left him.
— The Weekly Audible (@WeeklyAudible) June 11, 2026
There’s a reason why the Pacers traded for Haliburton and not Fox
— Alex Golden (@AlexGoldenNBA) June 11, 2026
This is why contender teams shouldn’t be relying on veteran players who never got far in playoffs to be their closers.
There’s a reason Fox couldn’t get kings to west finals. They had talented teams.
But some stars just don’t know how to play winning basketball. https://t.co/8udfkcLCBo
— Navajo Felon
(@navajofelon) June 11, 2026
The Kings should NOT have fired Mike Brown. That wasn’t the problem.
What you’re seeing now is De’Aaron Fox being put in situations that are exposing everything the system used to cover up.
— #CoachHova
(@realbucketscout) June 11, 2026
One thing I like to do is listen to local markets of teams around the league, not all of them but some of them.
The soundbites coming out of Sacramento media on Fox they on his head
. The Kings fans couldn't wait to tell people the truth about him.
— JBoogz (@JeremyBoogz) June 11, 2026
Highkey Fox was doing dumb shit with the Kings but who was really checking for them like that
— Jay Holloway
(@BlkMANjoy_) June 11, 2026
Some even went as far as to say that the Kings won the trade with the Spurs. Although all it took was a simple reminder that the Spurs are currently in the NBA Finals, no matter how the series has gone, and that alone makes the Kings losers.
Brother we just won 22 games and Fox is in the Finals. We are nowhere near winning the trade
https://t.co/LI9Om72lPL
— KingsMuse (@kings_muse) June 11, 2026
It’s true the Fox has not been having a very good NBA Finals series. He’s shot under 40 percent from the field in all but one game thus far with two of those games being sub-30 percent. But there’s no denying the importance of Fox on this Spurs team in getting to this point in the first place.
In his second career playoff appearance, he’s averaging 16.0 points, 4.0 rebounds, 6.0 assists and 1.3 steals with splits of 42.5 percent shooting from the field, 30.9 percent shooting from the 3-point line and 75.8 percent shooting from the free-throw line.
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