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  • What I’m hearing on De’Aaron Fox as Kings navigate flurry of interest across NBA


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    It has been two days since De’Aaron Fox became the most prominent young NBA star available heading into the Feb. 6 trade deadline, with the Sacramento Kings deciding to field trade offers for the 27-year-old former All-Star whose concerns about his long-term future in Sacramento have been a driving force in this situation.

    Per league sources, the Kings continue to navigate a flurry of interest that has come their way as a result of the revelation. One league source indicated that more than half the teams in the NBA have inquired. The prospect of Fox being moved, and his eight-year tenure with the Kings coming to an end, has never been more real.

    As expected, league sources say those trade talks include the team that is known to be Fox’s preferred destination: the San Antonio Spurs. Yet while it remains to be seen if Fox will become Victor Wembanyama’s co-star in the next week, or if the Spurs might be able to push the negotiations into the offseason as a way to simplify their roster-building process while not losing out on Fox to another team, key factors here will have to be figured out if Fox is going to land in San Antonio.

    Chief among them? The possible Stephon Castle inclusion, or potential lack thereof.

    The Kings are known to covet the Spurs rookie guard who was taken fourth overall out of Connecticut in the NBA Draft last June, but there is serious skepticism in league circles that San Antonio will be willing to include him. If that’s ultimately the case, the Kings would have to determine whether there’s an acceptable pathway to doing the deal without him. That’s not the end of San Antonio’s considerations, either.

    While the Spurs (20-24) have lost eight of their last 10 games while falling to 12th in the Western Conference, they’ve still made major strides from their 22-win campaign of last season. Veteran point guard Chris Paul, who signed a one-year deal worth $11 million to join them in July, has been a driving force in that progress while earning significant respect within the organization along the way. For the Spurs’ purposes, it would be easier to integrate Fox in the summer while letting the 39-year-old Paul finish this productive season in his twilight. Fox, who turned down multiple extension offers from the Kings leading up to this point, has one season left on his contract ($37 million).

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    Beyond the Spurs, who have the luxury of operating with the knowledge that Fox is likely to sign an extension if he comes their way, the Kings’ attention has no doubt turned to teams that must view Fox as a rental. The question there, it seems, is whether the Kings are motivated enough to truly consider offers that would likely be far less attractive than the Spurs’ because of the risk factor involved for teams that roll the dice. The mood of the team could certainly play a part here, as league sources close to several Kings players expressed frustration that this situation has become such an ill-timed distraction.

    The Kings (24-23) are tied with the Golden State Warriors for 10th in the West. They lost to Philadelphia on Wednesday, falling 117-104 to a Sixers team that was without Joel Embiid and Paul George, but had won 11 of the previous 15 games under interim coach Doug Christie.

    As the Kings front office continues to canvass the league for solutions to their uncertain future, with known involvement in several situations beyond Fox, this much is clear: They do not see Jimmy Butler as the answer. Per league sources, the Kings are not pursuing the disgruntled Miami star who is serving an indefinite suspension while Heat officials attempt to trade him.

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    That makes sense, too. The Fox situation is headache enough on its own. And as Fox has made clear for quite some time now, his aspirations are higher than this current Kings plight.

    “I want to make sure that we’re in that position to be competing and competing at a high level for a long time, not just fighting for a playoff spot,” he told me in mid-October. “Obviously, the way that the West is going, we have to continue to get better as players and as a team, as an organization. And, I mean, I’m not saying I’m not staying or that I am staying. But I would love to be here, and I want to make sure that we’re competing at a high level.

    “We don’t want to have our peak season being two years ago and just making the playoffs. We want to continue to build on that and just continue to try to change this culture. I think it’s changed already, but you want to build a championship culture, and you have to be able to do those things before you even get to the top. … I definitely feel like we have the talent to (contend). But now, it’s, ‘Can we execute that plan?’”

    The plan, quite clearly, has changed.

    (Top photo of De’Aaron Fox: Sarah Stier / Getty Images)



    De’Aaron Fox has been a hot topic of conversation lately as the Sacramento Kings navigate a flurry of interest from teams across the NBA. Rumors are swirling about potential trades and the future of the talented young point guard.

    Many sources are reporting that the Kings are fielding offers for Fox, but are hesitant to part ways with their star player. Fox has been a key piece of the Kings’ rebuilding efforts and has shown tremendous growth and potential in his time with the team.

    However, with so many teams expressing interest in Fox, it’s hard to ignore the possibility of a trade. Some reports suggest that the Kings are considering their options and weighing the potential return they could get for Fox.

    Fans are divided on the issue, with some hoping that the Kings will hold onto Fox and continue to build around him, while others are open to the idea of trading him for the right deal.

    As the rumors continue to swirl, it’s clear that the situation is fluid and anything could happen. It will be interesting to see how the Kings ultimately decide to handle the flurry of interest in De’Aaron Fox.

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  • Democrats set to pick new chair as party grapples with Trump’s flurry of actions




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    Democrats will choose their next national party chair and leadership team Saturday, closing out a monthslong debate over who is best suited to help the party rebrand and guide it through the next four years of the Trump administration.

    Three candidates have emerged as top contenders to lead the Democratic National Committee: Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party chair Ken Martin, Wisconsin Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.

    The election of new party leaders comes as Democrats have grappled with the most effective way to challenge the torrent of action spurred by the Trump White House, which just this week included the president blaming diversity initiatives for a deadly DC plane collision, a federal funding freeze that was rescinded in less than 48 hours amid widespread backlash, and confirmation hearings for three controversial Cabinet nominees.

    Those seeking the party’s top job signaled that, without a national leader, Democrats had not addressed what some called the “chaos” of the last several days with enough force. During their final candidate forum Friday, chair hopefuls were asked to raise their hands if they felt the Democratic Party had responded “sufficiently” to the first nearly two weeks of Trump’s second term. Most candidates – including Martin, Wikler and O’Malley – kept their hands down.

    “Right now, our party frankly feels listless. It feels like there’s nobody at the helm,” said David Hogg, a gun control activist running for a DNC at-large vice chair position. “We need leadership, we need a vision for the pathway forward, and that’s one of the most important parts about these elections.”

    In addition to choosing the next chair, DNC members will elect seven additional officers: a vice chair for civic engagement and voter participation; a treasurer; a secretary; a national finance chair; and three at-large vice chairs.

    To win, a candidate will need a majority of votes cast. There are 450 voting members of the DNC, but the final number needed to win will depend on attendance.

    In the days leading up to the election, the three frontrunners released dozens of endorsements from key Democrats, only some of whom are able to vote in the election.

    Soon after Martin announced he’d been backed by South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn, whose endorsement helped former President Joe Biden win the 2020 Democratic primary, Wikler announced he had the support of Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

    One key Democrat is likely to stay out of the race: former Vice President Kamala Harris. Though the party has spent weeks debating what went wrong during her 2024 presidential campaign, Harris is not expected to endorse a candidate in the race, according to a source familiar.

    Harris spoke on the phone this week with the three leading candidates in the race, a person familiar with the discussions told CNN. In the calls, which each lasted about 15 to 20 minutes, the candidates discussed their visions for the party and expressed their gratitude to Harris for her candidacy and commitment to stay involved with the party’s efforts going forward. The former vice president pledged to work closely with the winning candidate as soon as they’re elected, the source said.

    Without a Democratic president in the White House, leadership of the party will be fractured over the next four years. And with Democrats in the minority in both the House and Senate, much of the focus on Capitol Hill will be aimed at blocking Trump’s agenda rather than advancing the party’s policy priorities.

    The next chair will be tasked with helping guide the party forward as it looks to rebound from stinging losses last November. In addition to fundraising and messaging, the chair will also help steer the 2028 nominating process and create a campaign-in-waiting for the eventual Democratic nominee.

    They will also need to unite the committee and address several internal issues, including anger over a wave of layoffs last year, demands for increased transparency around budgets and spending, and frustration with campaign consultants.

    State party leaders, particularly in non-battleground states, have pushed chair candidates to vow to invest more in their states and rank-and-file members have called for a more democratized process to access exclusive committees made up of appointees.

    “I have never attended a DNC meeting where I left and said, ‘Huh, I learned something,’” Stephanie Campanha Wheaton, one of the Young Democrats of America’s DNC members and a Martin supporter, told CNN. “You show up and you are a pawn, and you nod your head yes to everything that has already been decided upon in committees that you don’t know how people got on.”

    At the heart of the leadership elections is a desire to make sense of the party’s 2024 losses and chart a path out of political obscurity. In more than a dozen forums – from the four party-run events to several held by outside groups and voting blocs within the DNC – questions have focused on how to win back young men and working class voters, how to fight disinformation, and how to make better use of the millions for dollars flowing into the party.

    “It’s a sign of a healthy party to actually question each other, debate each other, think about the path forward,” said Tory Gavito, a Wikler backer and the president of Way to Win, a women-led donor coalition that co-hosted a DNC forum with the Texas Democratic Party. “And in this debating, the goal is to win.”

    Martin, a DNC vice chair who leads the Association of State Democratic Committees and has chaired his state party since 2011, entered the race first and was an early frontrunner thanks to his yearslong relationships with the leaders of various state parties and other DNC members

    Joe Salas, a California DNC member backing Martin, said he believed the Minnesota chair understands the important role of local committees. On a personal level, he said Martin was the only high-ranking DNC leader to send him a congratulatory card welcoming him to the DNC when he was elected last year.

    “It goes to his point about organizing year-round: you can’t come to somebody a couple of months before an election and ask them to do something,” Salas said. “You have to make deposits before you make withdrawals.”

    Wikler experienced a late surge in support fueled by key endorsements from a group of Democratic governors – including DNC voting members Laura Kelly of Kansas, Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico – and four large public sector unions, who issued a joint statement.

    Many of the DNC voters endorsing him have pointed to his track record in Wisconsin since becoming chair in 2019, including winning a liberal majority on the state Supreme Court that paved the way for more competitive legislative maps.

    “We felt like Ben Wikler was the one who could build worker power and expand the party’s base,” said Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, of the joint union endorsement.

    In addition to AFT, Wikler was backed by the leaders of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, National Education Association and Service Employees International Union. Other unions have split their support among the leading candidates.

    O’Malley, meanwhile, has picked up public support from a handful of DNC members and high-profile Democrats such as Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine. His critiques of Martin and Wikler have also become more pointed.

    The former governor ribbed Wikler for declining to preemptively release a list of donors to his chair campaign ahead of a Friday night FEC deadline and suggested Martin’s support is not as strong as it seems during a gaggle with reporters after a candidate forum Thursday.

    “When the totally inevitable front runner, who’s been working at it for five years, shows himself not to be totally inevitable, I think it opens up for a larger debate,” O’Malley said.

    Ahead of the vote for chair, no candidate appeared to have enough support to win on the first ballot. Several DNC members said they expect the race will move to additional rounds of voting.

    One DNC member who asked not to be named to speak freely, said they believed that support for Wikler and Martin could shift if neither wins on the first ballot.

    “If it goes to a second ballot, it could be a complete shake-up,” the DNC member said.

    As of Friday, the three leading candidates were claiming to have levels of support that, if added together, would far surpass the number of actual voting members. Wikler’s campaign said he had 183 endorsements and O’Malley’s said he had 137 endorsements, though most of their names have remained private. Martin had released the names of about 200 backers by Friday evening, dozens more than his competitors have made public.

    “In the end, we’re going to find out on the first ballot who’s being on the up and up,” another DNC voter said. “Let’s be honest – if a candidate says they’ve got X votes and they come in 20, 30% less than that, the rest of their voters are going to wonder: Were they being sold a bill of goods on how strong their candidacy was?”



    The Democratic Party is gearing up to select a new chair as they navigate through the challenges posed by President Trump’s rapid-fire actions. With the new administration making sweeping changes on a daily basis, the Democrats are under pressure to regroup and strategize for the future.

    The upcoming leadership election will be crucial for the party as they seek to unify their base and mobilize against the Trump agenda. The new chair will have the daunting task of leading the party in a highly polarized political climate, where every move is scrutinized and contested.

    As the Democrats prepare to select their new leader, they must also focus on building a strong grassroots movement and reaching out to disaffected voters. The party’s response to Trump’s actions will be closely watched, and the new chair will play a key role in shaping the party’s message and strategy.

    The stakes are high for the Democratic Party, and the upcoming leadership election will set the tone for their future direction. As they navigate through the challenges posed by the Trump administration, the Democrats must come together and present a united front to effectively counter the president’s policies and actions.

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  • Fed hits pause on interest rate cuts amid Trump’s flurry of economic plans


    In an aerial view, a container ship sits docked at the Port of Oakland on December 9, 2024 in Oakland, California.

    Federal Reserve officials have worked hard to set interest rates at levels that minimize inflation and maximize employment over the past couple of years. And they’ve been remarkably successful, a historically rare feat to pull off.

    But selecting the optimal interest rate level, which is, in part, based on how Fed officials expect the economy to perform in the months and years ahead, has become a lot more complicated since President Donald Trump took office.

    That’s because levying tariffs on America’s biggest trading partners, which Trump vowed to do, could spur more inflation, some economists have predicted.

    Now, a February 1 deadline is looming for when Trump vowed to levy a 25% blanket tariff on Mexican and Canadian goods and a 10% tariff on all Chinese goods. If enacted, this could significantly raise prices US consumers pay for a wide range of goods.

    That said, many economists believe some of Trump’s threats are likely a negotiating tactic, resulting in, for instance, watered-down tariffs or perhaps none at all on some countries’ products.

    Still, the wide range of outcomes Trump can enact makes it more challenging for Fed staff to make economic forecasts that help inform central bankers’ interest rate decisions.

    The Fed’s dilemma over the uncertainty stemming from Trump’s second term was noted in a recently published summary of the Fed’s December 2024 meeting.

    “Given the elevated uncertainty regarding specifics about the scope and timing of potential changes to trade, immigration, fiscal, and regulatory policies and their potential effects on the economy, the staff highlighted the difficulty of selecting and assessing the importance of such factors for the baseline projection and featured a number of alternative scenarios,” the summary stated.

    Some Fed officials are already beginning to make forecasts that take into account tariffs Trump may enact so they have more time to react. Others are waiting until Trump signs new laws into effect.

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    The Federal Reserve announced today that it will hold off on further interest rate cuts, citing President Trump’s recent economic proposals as a reason for the pause. This decision comes after a series of rate cuts earlier in the year aimed at stimulating the economy amidst growing concerns of a potential recession.

    President Trump has been pushing for further action to boost economic growth, including tax cuts and infrastructure spending. The Fed’s decision to pause on interest rate cuts signals a cautious approach as they monitor the impact of these proposed policies on the economy.

    While the Fed’s decision may be seen as a positive sign of confidence in the economy, it also raises questions about the effectiveness of President Trump’s economic plans. Will his proposals be enough to sustain economic growth in the long term, or will further action be needed from the central bank?

    Only time will tell, but for now, the Fed’s pause on interest rate cuts serves as a reminder that economic policy is a delicate balancing act that requires careful consideration of all factors at play.

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  • Eagles make flurry of roster moves ahead of Cowboys game – NBC Sports Philadelphia

    Eagles make flurry of roster moves ahead of Cowboys game – NBC Sports Philadelphia


    The Eagles made a flurry of roster moves the day before facing the Cowboys on Sunday afternoon at the Linc.

    Here’s a complete rundown of all their moves:

    • Bryce Huff activated off IR to 53-man roster

    • WR Britain Covey (neck) placed on IR

    • DE Charles Harris waived

    • QB Ian Book signed to 53-man roster from P-Squad

    • RB Tyrion Davis-Price, LB Dallas Gant elevated for Sunday

    Huff had wrist surgery back on Nov. 21 to repair a torn ligament. He had his practice window opened last week but needed a bit more time to return to the field. The corresponding move for his roster spot was the release of veteran Charles Harris, who played minimally in his time with the Eagles. Expect Huff to play with his wrist wrapped in this game; he still has more function in that hand than he did before surgery.

    Covey has missed the last three games with a lingering neck injury despite being listed as a full participant in practice. The injury was enough to keep him off the field and the Eagles could no longer afford to use that roster spot on Covey. Without him, the Eagles will continue to rely on Cooper DeJean as their primary punt returner.

    Book was brought back to the practice squad earlier this week and will serve as the third quarterback on Sunday behind Kenny Pickett and Tanner McKee. Jalen Hurts (concussion) was ruled out on Friday. By adding Book to the 53-man roster, the Eagles can utilize the emergency quarterback rule. That basically means that Book will be inactive on Sunday but can enter the game if Pickett and McKee both get hurt. He won’t have to be one of the 48 active players on game day.

    Without Will Shipley (concussion), the Eagles elevated Davis-Price for this game. And with Nakobe Dean (abdomen) listed as doubtful, they elevated Gant. Both will be presumably be active against the Cowboys on Sunday.

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    The Philadelphia Eagles have made a flurry of roster moves ahead of their highly anticipated matchup against the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday. According to NBC Sports Philadelphia, the Eagles have made several changes to their roster in an effort to improve their chances of securing a victory against their NFC East rivals.

    One of the most notable moves made by the Eagles is the signing of veteran wide receiver DeSean Jackson. Jackson, who previously played for the Eagles from 2008 to 2013 and again in 2019, brings a wealth of experience and playmaking ability to the team’s receiving corps. His speed and deep threat capabilities could provide a much-needed boost to the Eagles’ offense.

    In addition to signing Jackson, the Eagles have also made several other roster moves, including promoting rookie running back Kenneth Gainwell from the practice squad and releasing cornerback Michael Jacquet. These moves come as the Eagles look to address areas of need and make the necessary adjustments to compete with the Cowboys, who currently sit atop the NFC East standings.

    With these roster changes in place, the Eagles will look to put forth their best effort against the Cowboys and potentially secure a crucial victory in the division race. Fans will be eagerly awaiting to see how these moves impact the team’s performance on game day. Stay tuned for more updates on the Eagles’ roster and their upcoming matchup against the Cowboys.

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