Best of NBA News Part 2: Spurs PROBLEMS, Trae Young DECLINES option & Knicks NO SEX rule

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:05)
According to ESPN's Mike Wright, the Spurs are committed to De'Aaron Fox. The Spurs remain committed to Fox as their franchise starting point guard. One rough series essentially playing on one leg doesn't change that. The four year, $229 million contract extension, Fox signed last summer, kicks in next summer. So he goes from 37.1 to 49.8. He's scheduled to make $61 million in the final year of the deal in 29.30.
He'll be just 32 years of age.
It's expected that calls for Harper's Camp for a spark in the starting lineup will grow louder and louder going into the next season. But it's not an issue San Antonio needs to address right now. Fox contract won't become a potential eyesore until Wimby's upcoming rookie extension kicks in. And when the Spurs are looking to next summer to extend Castle, what should be a max deal? Joe, it's a great thing to have young talent. We saw this with OKC. They get Shay done. You get J-Dub done. You get Chet done.
But damn, and OK, you just gave Fox his money. Wimby going to want his money. Castle going to want his money. Something you have to do with Harper. You can't have four guys on the max contract. I don't give a damn how many are with him.

**Chad Johnson** (1:28)
How many can you have?

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:29)
Probably three at the most. Three? Yeah, three at the most.
And then you're going to end up having to get off one of them. But at the same time, if I'm saying Antonio, you kind of ride it to Fox for the next couple of years, because you're going to be able to pay Wimby. You'll be able to pay Castle. But when Harper come up, somebody has got to go. Somebody got to go. It's just period point blank. I'm saying.

**Chad Johnson** (1:54)
Hold on. Why do you have to go?

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:55)
You said you're going to have to pay him max dollars. You can't have four max guys on your team, Ocho. Yeah.
You'll be in the second tier. You'll be playing more in bonus and penalties than you were salaries.

**Chad Johnson** (2:10)
But that means Fox will be gone by that time. And you should stick with Jalen.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:14)
I mean, you got to. But that's what I'm saying. They would have to move off one of them. That's what Joe said. You can't have four. The max you could have is three. And then when you have three, because I think OKC is going to lose Wallace. Wallace is going to want big bucks. Somebody is going to pay Wallace big bucks. A guy that can shoot the three, a guy that can defend like that, Joe. They can't take him. I think they probably going to lose Dork versus, I think they going to try to keep Wallace on. How you going to keep him? Joe, he going to want 25 million a year. Man, if I'm OKC, it's going to be hard to let Wallace go, bruh. How you got a choice, Joe? You remember now, you still got those three first-round picks that you need to do something with. You have to let them go. You have to trade them. Oh yeah, you got what? And you got Caruso on big bucks and no whammy.
And you got Hart, what you going to do? You going to let Hart and Stein go? Hey, listen, at some point, man, you go, some of them got, I think the most disheartening thing with OKC is that they were hampered with injuries throughout this whole postseason. So you never really got to see what they were like at full strength. So I don't count them out. I still think, you know, they got a chance if they healthy. If J-Dub can stay healthy, but damn, to lose Wallace and Dort, those are your blue collar hard working guys, bro. If you lose them to him, damn.
Well, you going to lose Dort. You're not going to pay Dort. I think you're not going to pay Dort. He's going to be looking for 20 something million. You're not paying him that there. And Wallace is going to be wanting 20, 25 million. I don't see them paying him that there, especially when you got Caruso on the number that you got him on. I see you, bro. I see you.
I think when you look at it, if I'm casing Wallace, because man, it ain't always a given that when you go to another team, bro, that you're going to shine like you think you are. You know what I mean? Would it pay me my money? Would it pay me that 20, would it pay me that five year 125? Okay, that's what it looks good to me.