At a press conference held at their practice facility, the New York Knicks officially announced Derek Fisher as the team's new head coach Tuesday afternoon.
The hire ends a weeks-long courtship between the two parties—one that got a little too close for the NBA's comfort while Fisher was still in the employ of the Oklahoma City Thunder, resulting in a $25,000 fine for the Knicks (per the New York Daily News' Frank Isola).
One team Fisher says didn't try and woo him: The Los Angeles Lakers, with whom Fisher won five championships between 2000 and 2010 alongside new boss Phil Jackson.
Fisher didn't quite elaborate on what "informal" meant. Was it a phone call? A carrier pigeon? Really elaborate smoke signals sent from a landfill fire?
We know the Knicks inked Fisher to a five-year, $25 million deal (as first reported by Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports), meaning the Lakers would have to have been more "serious" than...five years and $25 million.
Now, both the Knicks and the Lakers essentially operate as their own U.S. Mints, so if L.A. really wanted to blow ...
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