Rick Fox has spent a lot of time in Hollywood, so naturally he has more than one origin story. Canadian-born, Bahamian-raised Fox played professional basketball in the NBA in the 1990s and 2000s, starring for the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers. After retiring from the sport in 2004, he became a full-time actor, appearing in everything from Ugly Betty and The Big Bang Theory to Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! In 2015, he bought into a League of Legends esports team, a venture that ended in considerable acrimony four years later. And then the pandemic hit, and everything slowed to a crawl.
“The world got shut down,” Fox says.
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