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Rick Fox: I’ve been thinking about something lately. At 57 years old, after everything I’ve done, everything I’ve experienced, everything I’ve won and lost, I find myself learning some of the same lessons I thought I had figured out 30 years ago. You would think three NBA championships might qualify you as somebody who knows a thing or two about winning. And I do.
Rick Fox: But winning basketball games and winning at life? Those are two very different things. I spent 13 years in the NBA. Played for two of the most storied franchises in basketball, the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers. I was fortunate enough to play alongside Kobe and Shaq, be coached by Phil Jackson, and learn from some of the greatest basketball minds to ever walk into a gym. I’ve had a career in Hollywood. I’ve started businesses. I’ve made money. I’ve lost money. I’ve trusted the right people and the wrong people. I’ve been celebrated in rooms and questioned in those same rooms. And this year, I ran for political office in my home country, The Bahamas. I lost. Now, that’s an interesting experience for somebody who has spent most of his adult life being introduced as a three-time NBA champion.
Rick Fox: Here’s something people don’t always understand about athletes. From a very young age, we’re taught to follow a plan. You work hard. You listen to your coaches. You sacrifice. You put in the hours. You improve. You compete. And if you’re good enough, and a little lucky, you get rewarded. That was pretty much the formula I followed. When I was younger, I had a goal of playing 12 years in the NBA and winning three championships. I ended up playing 13 seasons and winning three rings. Not bad. But here’s what nobody really prepares you for.
Rick Fox: What happens when you’ve accomplished what you set out to do? What happens when the thing you’ve spent your entire life working toward is suddenly behind you? For me, that meant figuring out who Rick Fox was without a basketball in his hands. I loved acting. I loved business. I loved the challenge of building something from nothing. But each time I walked into a new industry, I had to accept something that wasn’t always easy on my ego. Nobody owed me anything because I had won three championships. And sometimes I think that was harder to accept than I wanted to admit.
Former NBA player Rick Fox has been appointed to the Bahamian Senate, taking up one of four seats reserved for members of the opposition. "As a senator, I hope to help examine recent turnout trends and work to restore trust in public life through transparency, accountability, and an economy where opportunity reaches more Bahamians first," Fox told Reuters on Monday.
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Three-time NBA champion Rick Fox on Monday said he will run for a seat in the Bahamas' House of Assembly in an election due to be held no later than October. "As a candidate and as a leader for the Bahamas I will demand transparency, honesty, integrity while demanding a level of excellence from all of us," Fox wrote on social media.
Steve Nash on Canada’s chances to win Olympics: It's incredible for me as a guy who came in the league and there was Bill Wennington, who went to high school in New York, but I believe his roots are in Montreal and Rick Fox who was born in Toronto and moved to the Bahamas in like 14 days. So that was it for Canada. Now there's like 24 guys on NBA rosters, the MVP of the league, really really good players. I think for Canada, frankly, the third position at the World Cup was great was a great result for them.
Mitch Richmond, when he won the 2002 title in Game 4: Shaquille O’Neal ended up talking to Phil Jackson and was like, "Yo, man, put him in the game, man. Was just tripping, man. Put the dude in the game, man. Come on, man." I'm like, "Okay." He puts me in the game. I end up getting the bucket. Robert Horry brings the ball over to me, and the game is over. I hit the last bucket. The game is over. Shaq comes over and gives me a big hug. As Shaq gives me a big hug, I got the ball right here. I'm like, "Oh, he's still hugging me." The ball is out. I'm like, "Oh, the ball." And you know who picks it up? Rick Fox. He comes and runs and picks up the ball and runs to the locker room. I tell Rick every time, I want to kill you. He said, "Man, you want that ball? I'll send it to. You've been saying that sh*t for 15 years. He hasn't sent me that ball yet. The last time I saw him was in Dubai. He was like, "Hey, man. How are you doing?" I said, "Man, where’s that ball, man?" And he’s like, “I’ll send it to you, man.” He ain't sent me that dang ball yet. I'm going to have to break into his house.
Jermaine O'Neal: "I remember asking some Lakers—Rick Fox, Derek Fisher—where Kobe was when they were out at a bar. They laughed and said, ‘He doesn’t go out. He stays in his room.’ Early in his career, people said he wasn’t a great teammate, but the truth is, his teammates didn’t know him well. That was his makeup—he was always studying, always preparing. It created a perception that he didn’t want to be around the team. And in the NBA, we’re always around each other, so if you don’t see a teammate, it feels like he doesn’t want to be part of the group. But with Kobe, it was just focus—it wasn’t personal."
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A new house in the Bahamas is built with an alternative concrete that sucks CO2 out of the air. It’s a home that’s supposed to help in the fight against climate change, and the plan is to build 999 more like it. That’s the slam dunk NBA Lakers legend-turned-actor Rick Fox is working toward now on the small island nation where he grew up. Fox is the CEO and co-founder of the sustainable building materials startup Partanna that unveiled its first home today. If they’re successful in the Bahamas, the goal is to make its alternative concrete an everyday building material that could cut down pollution from construction.
What has it been like over the years to see Klay play against the Lakers? Mychal Thompson: It’s a thrill for me because the Lakers were his team as a kid. Kobe [Bryant] was his guy. For him to be able to play against the Lakers and play in LA and Crypto.com Arena, it has been most meaningful to him because of his affection for the Lakers’ franchise and for Kobe. Anytime school permitted, I would get him and my other two sons up here to Lakers games so they can appreciate the greatness of Kobe and Shaq. That was their era when they were growing up with Derek Fisher, Rick Fox and that whole crew. They saw what winners and what champions were like.