When you’re setting franchise records and being mentioned in the same breath with Kobe Bryant and Wilt Chamberlain, you know it’s been a few days.
Sacramento’s De’Aaron Fox took advantage of a porous Utah defense to score 49 on Saturday night — a game that was the second of back-to-back nights where he scored 60 against the Timberwolves.
That’s 109 points on consecutive nights, a Sacramento Kings franchise record.
The only player to win it in the last 50 years? Kobe Bryant in 2007. The only other player to ever do better? Wilt Chamberlain, who did it 15 times (because he’s making fun of the record books).
But has Kobe or Wilt ever nearly lost a shoe on a steal, stomped on it in a game, then scored a layup? I think not.
Fox had to step up Saturday with DeMar DeRozan, Domantas Sabonis and Malik Monk all injured for the Kings, and they got the 121-117 victory over the Jazz behind him. Kings coach Mike Brown described Fox’s game this way, via NBC Sports Bay Area.
“I’ve been in this game since ’92,” Brown mentioned. “There is no person in this league who can stop him from getting to his places when he wants. And I think he feels that.
“Not only does he feel it, he shows it. When you have guys of his caliber — and I’ve been around the Stephs, the KDs, and the Kobes, and the LeBrons and the Tim Duncans; I’ve been around those. kind of special players – when you have those guys, they come to their places when they want to.”
High praise, but Fox earned all of it.
