{"id":48645,"date":"2025-08-06T20:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/48645\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T20:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:09:09","slug":"can-deaaron-fox-be-the-ideal-running-mate-for-victor-wembanyama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/48645\/","title":{"rendered":"Can De’Aaron Fox be the ideal running mate for Victor Wembanyama?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Subscribe to The Big Number<\/p>\n

This week, Tom Haberstroh and Dan Devine dive into De\u2019Aaron Fox getting big money with an extension from the San Antonio Spurs to play alongside Victor Wembanyama.<\/p>\n

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Can Fox be the ideal running mate with Wemby and will it end with a playoff appearance? We break down all the reasons this could, or could not, be the perfect longterm marriage.<\/p>\n

Plus, Luka Doncic and Mikal Bridges get their extensions with the Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks and George Niang\u2019s homecoming gets rerouted to Utah.<\/p>\n

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De’Aaron Fox’s extension with the San Antonio Spurs links him with Victor Wembanyama. (Photo by G Fiume\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

(Photo by G Fiume\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

(1:33) The Big Number: 5 games with Fox + Wemby<\/p>\n

(15:45) Little Numbers: Fox shooting averages<\/p>\n

(20:01) Little Numbers: De\u2019Aaron drives to the basket<\/p>\n

(23:08) Little Numbers: Fox 3PT shooting<\/p>\n

(27:24) Little Numbers: Spurs playoff drought<\/p>\n

(33:23) Luka signs extension with Lakers<\/p>\n

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(37:22) Bridges re-signs with Knicks<\/p>\n

(41:21) Celtics trade Niang to Jazz<\/p>\n

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Check out the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https:\/\/apple.co\/3zEuTQj<\/a> or at Yahoo Sports Podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe to The Big Number This week, Tom Haberstroh and Dan Devine dive into De\u2019Aaron Fox getting big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,2870,17933,12835,41404,7232,11473,12834,1666,10549,85,17934,12838],"class_list":["post-48645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-celtics","tag-dan-devine","tag-deaaron-fox","tag-george-niang","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-luka-doncic","tag-mikal-bridges","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-tom-haberstroh","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}