Spurs’ De’Aaron Fox’s consistent advice to young teammates before NBA Finals vs. Knicks

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Spurs’ De’Aaron Fox’s consistent advice to young teammates before NBA Finals vs. Knicks

Hector Ledesma, ClutchPoints · ClutchPoints

Wed, Jun 3, 2026 ·

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Even on a San Antonio Spurs team with few veterans among its rotation, De'Aaron Fox stands out.

While Luke Kornet and Harrison Barnes have won championships, and though this is Fox's first trip to the NBA Finals, the two-time All-Star is, perhaps, the squad's second-best scorer.

The NBA Playoffs have simply cemented his offensive worth – even with a sprained ankle – as the Silver and Black embark on a trip to the Finals vs. the New York Knicks .

ClutchPoints asked Fox if his role as the elder statesman among the Spurs starters has affected what he's saying to teammates as the franchise vies for a championship no one thought possible at the beginning of the season.

"Don't change anything that we're doing. There's a reason that we're in the Finals. There's a reason that we won 60 games. There's a reason we didn't lose three games in a row the whole year," the ninth-year guard responded.

At 28 years old, Fox is three years older than the Spurs starter closest to him in age. Devin Vassell is 25, Julian Champagnie is 24, Victor Wembanyama is 22 and Stephon Castle is 21. Fox is eight years older than Dylan Harper , who's practically served as a sixth starter throughout this playoff run.

"I think my big message for the guys is, especially as we we're going through this process, not right now but as we were playing in the first round and going up; enjoy the moment. This is a hard thing to do. It's hard to get back to these places," Fox continued to ClutchPoints. "We don't want to get to this place and then start changing the way we play."

De'Aaron Fox invokes beating the Thunder in looking to NBA Finals

A 111-103 victory vs the Oklahoma City Thunder in a Game 7 on the road propelled San Antonio to a date with New York.

"Going to game seven, a lot of times superstars think, people say 'unload the clip,' 'get all your rocks off,' whatever phrase you want to use. Going into that game, I'm like, no, do the things we've been doing throughout the course of the year, those are the reasons we're playing the defending champs, that we forced a game seven on their home court," Fox told ClutchPoints.

"We don't need to change anything," the former Kentucky standout continued. "We're a good team, and we know that. Going to these games knowing that there's a reason that we're here and continuing to play the way that we play, double down on it, triple down on it and continue to do those things."

Fox spent the first seven and a half years of his NBA career with the Sacramento Kings , where he led the franchise to the playoffs for the first time in 17 years. They failed to qualify the next year.

"I think the hardest part was you have a good year and then you kind of expect it to get better, and then it doesn't. I think that's probably the biggest part," Fox admitted about his time in California. "Usually, when you hear guys who went to the Finals or won the Finals, they talk about loving; getting to that point. But it's a hard thing to do once, and it's definitely a hard thing to do multiple times."

"Once you taste that success a little bit, I think the hardest part was not being able to get back there," Fox shared.

It's a standard Fox is on his way to establishing.

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