Derek Fisher
Derek Fisher
Derek Lamar Fisheris an American basketball coach and former player. He most recently served as the head coach of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association. He played professionally in the NBA for 18 seasons, spending the majority of his career with the Los Angeles Lakers, with whom he won five NBA championships. He has also served as president of the National Basketball Players Association...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth9 August 1974
CityLittle Rock, AR
CountryUnited States of America
You have to work hard at things.
With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.
Teams are often pretty clear about what they can do or are willing to do.
Nothing prepares a family for having multiple children at once.
I feel like I'm capable of doing so many things to help people around the country and the world.
I am and always will be a leader.
I'm more focused on the positives of why I'm here. I'll be able to address those things in due time. Right now it's about the Thunder and Oklahoma City.
You're at your best, when you're focused and you're serious and passionate about what you do, but at the same time you can relax and have fun and be confident.
Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.
I was just trying to do whatever I needed to help us win. That was the objective. Today we needed extra offense and at times, I provided that. Just not enough to get a win.
That's the type of personality he has. But he does it in a way that's respectful of his teammates. He's never trying to show someone up.
That's the key for us. Being able to really tap into this team's scoring potential, figuring out the sets that we have and the offense that we run, how to be more efficient. Against good defensive teams, you can't game in and game out take difficult shots with guys flying at you and having to get into the lane and create your own shots every time.
I think we're finding this team can win basketball games, even when we don't score 100 points.
We did that because we don't want kids in foul trouble. We try to match up on their better shooters and we came in trying to tilt our zone. We were fortunate they missed a lot of shots.