After a month of the media and others speculating about what led to his dismissal as the New York Knicks head coach, Derek Fisher is firing back.
In a first-person piece for The Cauldron published on Thursday, Fisher denied his offseason altercation with Matt Barnes played any part in his firing:
At no time did anyone at that meeting express to me that stories about my personal life were distracting from the collective task at hand, or — more important — that any of my players had expressed to management that they had lost confidence in me as their coach. Nothing remotely like that was ever brought up or discussed.
In October, Barnes reportedly drove 95 miles to "beat the s--t out of" Fisher after finding out the former Knicks coach was romantically involved with his estranged wife, via Ian Mohr of the New York Post.
"A fight erupted at 11:45 p.m. between the 235-pound Barnes and the 6-1, 200-pound Fisher," according to Mohr. "Cops were called, but Fisher left before they arrived, the sources said."
Fisher, 41, was fired Feb. 8 after posting a 40-96 recor ...
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