2017 NBA Draft: 5 best fits for De’Aaron Fox

3. Sacramento Kings

This might be the best fit of the whole draft. After taking three big men with their last four first-round selections, Sacramento is in desperate need of a point guard. They played veterans Ty Lawson and Darren Collison in that position last year after the Rajon Rondo reclamation project of 2015. However, none of those players fit the overall trajectory of the Kings nearly as well as De’Aaron Fox.

If we expect the organization to lean completely into the youth next season, their depth chart will be wide open. The top three on their minutes played chart will all likely be gone by the end of the offseason, leaving plenty of room for Fox to join the Kings and play through his mistakes. Put him next to Buddy Hield, Willie Cauley-Stein and Skal Labissiere, and perhaps Sacramento is getting a little more praise by year’s end. That’s a real core.

The great thing about the young players in Sacramento is that they all have two-way potential. Hield lacks the athleticism to be great, but is better than many other guards Fox could end up next to. Cauley-Stein has heaps of defensive potential, and Labissiere is an athletic freak. Fox would just lift the collective ceiling of this unit even higher.

He would also operate as a table-setter for a team desperately needing one. Each of these three core youngsters is better without the ball in their hands. The Kings are the rare team who has put together a promising unit without a high-usage player holding it all together. They are largely a malleable group at this point, and Fox is just another dose of special.