During one of my one hundred and twenty three checks for Utah Jazz information during the day yesterday, I discovered that the team had called an impromptu press conference. Teams don't just call press conferences to thank 25-year old dudes for pulling for them. Teams only call press conferences for big deals - major trades, coaches getting hired, fired, or resigning, and all the big moves in-between. This was not a good press conference...
Derek Fisher (Who could forget him?) is being released from his contract in order to move to a city that not only has an NBA team but also has a retinoblastoma specialist to take care of his baby girl. While Fisher's on-the-court production (10 points per game 3 assists per) can be replaced, his off-the-court class cannot.
Fisher is a class dude to put his family before $21 million and the Jazz are a class organization to let a guy potentially go to a rival for nothing. In a world of professional sports where it is so easy to wonder where the good guys are, it is nice to pull for an organization full of them and one in particular.
I'll be a Fish fan no matter where he goes. (unless he goes back to the Lakers...kidding!)
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