Derek Fisher is Mr. Steal Your Girl.
He doesn’t care if the girl is the wife of a friend or a girlfriend of one of his players, if he wants her he is going to get her.
The Big Lead breaks down how Fisher was involved with Tim Hardaway Jr’s lady courtesy of ESPN’s Brian Windhorst.
Windhorst chimed in: “Correct me if I’m wrong, Kevin [Arnovitz], but Tim Hardaway Jr. had to go on the record to discuss whether he and Derek Fisher were involved with the same woman. I’m fairly certain he had to go on the record and said he had to deal with that. So it wasn’t just Matt Barnes.”
As far as we can tell, if there was indeed a situation between Hardaway and Fisher, it never bubbled over publicly. During the Barnes fiasco, there was an offhand allusion to rumors of a love triangle involving Hardaway and Fisher (and one involving Fisher and Cleanthony Early) on a small web site called Sneaker Mob, and afew offhand tweets. There were plenty of stories last season about Hardaway Jr.’s being in Fisher’s doghouse on the court (here, here,here), but that’s not altogether uncommon for a young player. Hardaway was traded to Atlanta this offseason.
It looks like Fisher is more interested in being a playboy than a head coach. That is one of the many reasons he was fired.
You can’t expect to break this many guy codes and still have the respect of the players. It all makes sense now why so many players sided with Barnes in this beef.
You are shady D Fish, mad shady.
FLIP THE PAGES FOR PICS OF HARDAWAY JR GF & CLEANTHONY’S GF…