Kings trading De’Aaron Fox to Spurs in three-team NBA blockbuster for Bulls’ Zach LaVine

De’Aaron Fox is headed to the home of The Alamo.

The Kings are putting the final pieces in place to complete a three-team trade that would send Fox to the Spurs and moves Bulls’ star Zach LaVine to the Kings, according to multiple reports. 

ESPN’s Shams Charania was first to report the deal. 

De’Aaron Fox #5 of the Sacramento Kings is being traded to the Spurs. NBAE via Getty Images

The complex three-team deal will see the Spurs come away with Fox and Jordan McLaughlin.

The Kings will receive Zach LaVine, Sidy Cissoko, three first-round picks and three second-rounders and the Bulls will get Zach Collins, Tre Jones, Kevin Huerter and get their 2025 pick returned from San Antonio. 

The trade comes less than 24 hours after the NBA was already flipped on its head when Luka Doncic was traded to the Lakers in the middle of the night. 

And ends the drama related to the trade rumors inside the Sacramento locker room. 

Kings forward Trey Lyles had told the Sacramento Bee that the rumors had created “bad energy” in the room. 

“I just think there’s a bad energy with the team right now,” he said. “I think it’s pretty apparent whether it’s on the court or practice or stu” like that, so we’ve just got to get through that and hopefully we’ll be OK on the other side.”

Zach LaVine of the Chicago Bulls is heading to the Kings in the trade. Getty Images

The deal for Fox comes as a little bit less of a surprise considering it had been previously reported that the now-former Kings point guard had been put on the trading block last week and had listed the Spurs as his preferred destination. 

The trade brings to Fox, a former Player of the Year winner, with Spurs big man Victor Wembanyama. 

Fox has been averaging 25 points per game with five rebounds and 6.1 assists during a year in which the Kings have found themselves clinging to the final spot in the play-in tournament. 

Fox joins Wemby and the Spurs, who are pushing to make the playoffs and currently find themselves on the outside looking in at the postseason.

De’Aaron Fox NBAE via Getty Images

The Kings also landed a player in LaVine who they had wanted to add to their roster back in 2018. 

That year, the Kings offered him a four-year, $78 million restricted offer sheet that the Bulls ended up matching to keep him in the Windy City. 

He’s averaging 24 points this season while pulling down 4.8 rebounds and 4.5 assists.

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