Home NBA De’Aaron Fox details cold-blooded trey to stun Magic in crunch time

De’Aaron Fox details cold-blooded trey to stun Magic in crunch time

De’Aaron Fox made it sure that he’ll repay his temporary absence for the Sacramento Kings off from a knee injury.

And he ultimately did it in a spectacular fashion.

Almost falling in the jaws of defeat, Fox led the Kings through the storm to beat the Orlando Magic on Saturday night. Down by 20 in the third frame, Sacramento blazed off to eventually snatch the win thanks to his late-game heroics.

After the Magic tied the ball game at 123 in a costly turnover from their part, Fox didn’t lose his composure and navigated the ball to cross the midcourt. Amid the noise from the Amway Center crowd, the rising star pulled up a three-point shot from the logo.

Eventually, his cold-blooded trifecta served as the silencer to the stunned Orlando faithful, 126-123.

“It felt good leaving my hands and the shot went in, so we get out of here with a win,” Fox told Kings TV about his clutch shot, via Jason Anderson of the Sacramento Bee. “You ask any basketball player, probably at any level, when the ball is going in and you have a rhythm, the basket starts looking like the ocean. I shot that ball and it felt good the entire way. I tried to get as straight in line with the basket as I possibly could so then there’s no variant, no left-right, and then you’ve just got to get it there.”

With his three-pointer, Fox posted up 37 markers to go along with five boards and three assists, as Sac-town went back to the win column this weekend.

The Kings had plenty of work to do after the first-half, as they were even down 65-47 at halftime. The Magic had a shaky edge, but thankfully it was erased by their collective effort down the line.

“You can’t start the game like we did today,” Fox said. “If you want to win in this league, you want to put together as many minutes of 48 as you possibly can, but we came out in the second half and I think we hit first.

“I think at the beginning of the game, they hit us first and they got off to a good start, but in the second half we started getting stops. We got out and ran and that’s how you put together a win on both ends of the court.”

The Kings will look to extend their winning streak to two as they cap off their road trip against the Golden State Warriors on Monday.

Exit mobile version