WATCH: De'Aaron Fox and Malik Monk have a YouTube show
De’Aaron Fox and Malik Monk have been must-watch TV during these NBA playoffs with the dynamic Kentucky duo combining for 70 points in the Sacramento Kings’ first playoff game since 2006 when the two were just nine years old. However, few people know they also have a must-watch YouTube show as well.
The Fox and Monk Show features the two riffing back and forth on everything from dad jokes to friendship tests, to playing the game Never Have I Ever. They even drop a little story about covering for each other when they may have stayed out past curfew while at Kentucky.
Monk sports a Kentucky jumpsuit throughout the series and you can’t help but have flashbacks to that extremely underrated and sometimes underappreciated 2017 team.
It took a little to find their groove and I’m convinced Big Blue Nation was still a little hungover from the 2015 Wisconsin loss, but history will look back on the 2017 team, which also featured NBA All-Star Bam Adebayo and Los Angeles Laker rotation player, Wenyen Gabriel, as one of Calipari’s best. That heartbreaker against eventual title winner, North Carolina, in the Elite Eight was the real national championship.
Not only was that team lethal on the court, but they had the kind of personalities that endeared fans even more.
Now the two have swapped jersey numbers (in part thanks to Willie Cauley-Stein in a surprisingly enjoyable story that is worth a listen) and look to avenge that 2017 tournament loss in the form of a deep NBA playoff run while continuing to show off why Kentucky found them so likable off the court as well.
All six episodes of the Fox and Monk Show are each roughly three to five minutes long, making the series very binge-able on a Saturday afternoon.
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