Kings fans turn on Fox after star point guard's role in trade revealed

Spurs fans are elated with their newly added point guard—especially after his electric debut—but not everyone is happy after San Antonio's transaction with the Sacramento Kings and Chicago Bulls. Kings fans are left without a franchise playmaker, and in that empty hole lives a burning desire to rage and blame someone for how things ended between De'Aaron Fox and his former employers.

It's understandable. I'd also be mad if my organization traded away a 27-year-old 25 ppg scorer for a plate of Huevos Rancheros (though, depending on where you get it from, it's an otherwise good meal). But that angst should be directed at Sacramento's front office.

However, SAC fans have come across a recent interview of Fox revealing he played a small part on the return they got back for his services, and apparently, it's enough for them to turn on the once beloved Kings star.

Fox is big on playing with Stephon Castle, and he made that clear, but that's not a reason to be upset with this man.

Kings fans are forgetting the big picture with the Fox situation

Kings fans seem to be forgetting one key element of this story: Swipa didn't ask to be traded in this scenario. The front office panicked because they didn't want to lose him for nothing, so they traded him, feeling like this was the best time to get the most for him. He wasn't even on the last year of his contract, but SAC felt like they needed to make a move to preserve the organization's future.

Some of their fans are legitimately angry with Fox for insisting on playing with Stephon Castle if he was headed to San Antonio, but again, it's not his fault their front office decided that was okay. If the return wasn't good enough, they should have held firm or turned elsewhere for a trade. But fans, and even radio hosts, get emotional at times like these and fly off the handle.

In case you're struggling to see what those emojis are. This Sacramento radio host posted a couple of pieces of grass with a fox between them, expressing a "snake in the grass" metaphor. That suggests that De'Aaron Fox somehow did them wrong and betrayed their fan base and organization, but that couldn't be further from the truth.

All Fox wanted was to put some pressure on the front office to make the right moves to compete for a championship. They made the wrong move by bringing in DeMar DeRozan, and when they started losing games, they panicked and traded their best player.

All anger should be directed at the team's president, but instead, they are calling one of the nicest players in the NBA expletives and questioning his character. That's okay, though. They don't have to worry about Fox anymore. He has a new home, and San Antonio fans know how to make a player feel welcome.