Most NBA players sided with Matt Barnes in his beef with Derek Fisher. But it wasn’t that Fisher just slept with his once friend’s wife that turned Knicks players against him, it was the fact he did it during the Knicks training camp.
According to WOJO, that was the beginning of the end for him.
As a young NBA coach, the fastest path to losing a locker room comes this way: Behave like a player. To fly to California and visit a girlfriend in the middle of the New York Knicks’ training camp – engaging Matt Barnes in a Tom-and-Jerry tussle-and-chase – cost Derek Fisher dearly. Fisher lost the moral high ground inside Madison Square Garden, lost a measure of gravitas as a leader of men.
The embarrassment of his unfilmed “Real Housewives” episode didn’t cost Fisher his job as Knicks coach, but it did start him on a slippery slope toward his firing on Monday. That October weekend odyssey was Fisher’s choice, and the blame for it all – including the failure to return to New York in time to conduct a Knicks practice – belongs to him.
WOJO goes on to imply that Phil Jackson is making it impossible for the Knicks to truly take a step forward and eventually will quit.
When he does quit WOJO says he will make his way back to the Lakers.