San Antonio Spurs star De’Aaron Fox plans to make his season debut against the New Orleans Pelicans at home on Saturday, sources told ESPN on Friday.<\/p>\n
Fox has rehabbed from an offseason hamstring injury and ramped up this week for his weekend debut.<\/p>\n
The Spurs will now have a potentially long runway this season with the All-Star duo of Fox and Victor Wembanyama after just five games and 120 total minutes together last season following San Antonio’s deadline deal for Fox from Sacramento.<\/p>\n
Fox is the first of multiple injured Spurs who will return as reinforcement and depth on the roster. Rookie guard Dylan Harper is sidelined for multiple weeks with a calf strain, and center Luke Kornet is working toward a return from an ankle sprain.<\/p>\n
Fox, 27, is one of just two players to average 20 points, 5 assists and 1 steal in each of the past six seasons along with Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are 5-2 entering Friday night’s NBA Cup home game against the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs star De’Aaron Fox plans to make his season debut against the New Orleans Pelicans at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,123460,459,123459,82],"class_list":["post-268522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-deaaron-fox-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-957489","tag-nba","tag-san-antonio-spurs-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-24","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}