NBA icon Rick Fox has launched yet another career venture — and, perhaps, his most important one yet.

The ex-Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics forward, 54, is developing a carbon-negative concrete that can suck CO2 out of the air in an attempt to aid the battle against climate change.

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Ex-NBA forward Rick Fox has been developing a carbon-negative concrete in an exciting new career ventureCredit: Getty

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Fox spent 13 years in the NBA, playing for the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles LakersCredit: Getty
Fox’s startup Partanna unveiled the first home built with the experimental concrete in the Bahamas, where he grew up, earlier this week.

And the company wants to construct 999 more with the help from the Bahamian government, hoping its invention can eventually become an everyday building material.

The concrete’s binding ingredients absorb carbon dioxide from the air and trap it inside, holding onto the CO2 even after structures that contain the material are demolished, per The Verge.

It also doesn’t use cement, whose manufacturing process itself releases a lot of climate pollution.

Studies claim cement is estimated to be responsible for eight percent of global carbon dioxide emissions.

Fox made it his mission to fight climate change after Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas in 2019, wrecking the homes of thousands of people.

“I shut down my entire career that was in Hollywood to pursue and create [climate] solutions,” said Fox, who started appearing in movies even before retiring from the NBA in 2004.

“I had to move around the industry that was new to me and meet people that were looking at me like, ‘What the hell are you doing in concrete?'”

Fox spent the first six years of his NBA career with the Celtics, who drafted him out of North Carolina with the 24th overall pick in 1991.

In 1997, the 6-foot-7 forward signed with the Lakers, teaming up with Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant.

He then helped the Purple and Gold win the fabled three-peat between 2000-2002.

Fox averaged 9.6 points, 3.8 rebounds, and 2.8 assists in his 13-year NBA career.

In retirement, the ex-NBA star also ventured into the gaming world.

He was part-owner of a professional League of Legends team Echo Fox, formerly Gravity Gaming, between 2015-2019.

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Fox won three NBA championships with the LakersCredit: Getty