Jouganatos: Fox is the Point Guard the Kings Have Been Needing for Years

Momma always said eventually a good break will come your way.

Last Tuesday's Draft Lottery left the Sacramento Kings, forever the NBA's ugly stepchild, finally with a string of good breaks. They kept both their draft pick and the pick received from New Orleans via the Boogie Cousins trade. All the while they were able to watch as their own pick skyrocketed from the projected 8th spot to the 3rd pick, landing at the 5 spot courtesy of Philadelphia swapping via the Saucey-Castillo/JT trade.

The Kings came into the Lottery just hoping they could keep both possible picks, they walked out of the Lottery with two picks in the top 10, one of those landing in the top 5 and providing the team with the ability to snag a game changer. Fox is that game changer.

In his lone year at Kentucky, De'Aaron Fox left the hoops world in awe as he ran the point with freakish athleticism and a smooth, feel for the game. He averaged 16.8 points per game and 4.6 assists per game. For a brief couple of months he flew under the radar to the non-diehard basketball fan. Then came the NCAA Tournament, more specifically the Sweet 16.

UCLA and Kentucky had gone wire to wire earlier in the season, with the Bruins getting the better of the Wildcats. But the storyline leading up to the rematch had less to do about Kentucky barely losing to the Bruins back in December and had more to do about fellow Freshman Point Guard Lonzo Ball and the nonstop locomotive talker that was his father, LaVar. For 40 minutes Fox punished Ball, he outplayed him wire to wire and cemented himself that night as a top 10 pick going forward. He dropped 39, shooting 13/20 from the field and all the while showing that famed athleticism on dunk after dunk. Ball could have the headlines, but Fox was getting the win.

If you're from the City, then you know how rare it is when a top incoming player lets people know that he wants to play for the Sacramento Kings. So imagine everyone's surprise when word got out that Fox had been looking at Sacramento as a place of landing in the Draft per Scott Howard-Cooper.

If by some grace of God everything falls into place (just once, please just give us one) and he is there at 5, De'Aaron Fox will change basketball life in the City of Sacramento for the next ten to fifteen years. He'll be the point guard the team has searched for and fans have begged and pleaded for. Divac has built the young nucleus/future of this team on athletic, position-less players. The Fox will be the engine that makes the Corvette go 100 MPH down CA-99 North towards the G1C. He'll tie it all in a bow and then lob it to either Cauley-Stein or Labissierre.

For now one can only hope and dream that things work in favor of the Kings. From 3-8 in this year's Lottery there is, and will continue to be so much uncertainty. As a Kings fan all there is left to do is sit and wonder until June 22nd and hope the Fox comes to the 916.