De'Aaron Fox: The Spurs' past have helped guide the present to the NBA Finals
San Antonio Spurs guard De'Arron Fox talks about how the organization is like a family with past players and coaches always around to help this young team reach the NBA Finals.
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It's the organization as a whole.
You know, it's a lot of people, you know, walking through this building that have been there and done that.
Like, you know, we could just have practice and Manu's there, or Tim's there.
Like, we have these guys who have won multiple championships and been to the mountaintop multiple times, and you can ask them anything, you know.
obviously Pop's gonna come in, he's gonna speak his mind, whatever it, whatever it may be.
And like I said before, that was the first time after a game that he walked in and said something.
But, you know, he comes to shoot-arounds, practices, you know, y'all see him here and there.
but just to have that, that source of information or, that's always willing, you know, if you, if, even if you ask a question, he'll answer it.
But sometimes he'll just walk in and let you know, or, you know, let you know what he sees.
And it's not always bad, obviously.
but they're able to give you those just tidbits of It's not even something that has to be a big thing.
It could be something as small as, you know, boxing someone out on a free throw, or one extra pass that happened at this point in the game that could have changed the game.
and it's just great having that, having those type of people in your ear who, they're not saying it because it makes them successful.
They wanna see other people be successful, and that's, and that's a great thing to have, especially throughout the course of a long year and in a long finals run.
I think these guys have such a level of respect for all the people that have walked, that have walked through here, that, you know, every time you see them, even if, even if you're not talking about basketball, you just feel it whenever you go say what's up to them and, you know, they come by and it's just I guess it's, it's so normal now, you know, whenever you've lived through that.
And obviously Vic and Steph have been here for a couple years now.
but, like, you just feel it.
Like, whenever I went to Kentucky, like, you just, you feel the winning of a program whenever you just step foot in the building and people just start coming around.
And, I think they've handled it, I don't wanna say with grace, but, like, they've, they've stepped into it and they wanna be a part of that.
So, you, you, you handle it with a, with a level of respect and with a level of responsibility knowing that, you know, when you put this jersey on, that you have an expectation.
And it's not always to win, you know.
You're not gonna always win, but, to go through that process of trying to get to that, to that point.
And I think, it's been great, and I think that's why we've been able to do it with We have four guys that are under 23, and I think we have, like, seven guys that are under 26, and we're in a position to win a championship.
And that's because of the way that they've handled this process.
