Fox's partnership with All-Star center Domantas Sabonis got off to a booming start in 2022–23, as the Kings snapped a 17-year playoff drought and earned the No. 3 playoff seed in the Western Conference. But the Kings were bounced in the first round of the playoffs that year, and they fell to the New Orleans Pelicans in the 2024 play-in tournament.

The Sacramento Kings are currently below the Play-In line at 13-15 -- one of just four Western Conference teams with a sub-.500 record -- entering play on Saturday. Their hopes were certainly higher than this after signing DeMar DeRozan this summer to pair with All-Stars De'Aaron Fox and Domantis Sabonis,

A slow start to this season for the Sacramento Kings has turned the focus to De'Aaron Fox's long-term future with the organization just two years after he