Why Derek Fisher Is the Best Possible Coach for Carmelo Anthony

July 15th, 2014 by Jim Cavan Leave a reply »



Coach-Killer.

As sports epithets go, it doesn’t get much more damning than that. It’s a label that can compromise chemistry and ruin reputations. Once widely applied, it seldom comes unstuck.

Fair or not, Carmelo Anthony has borne the brunt of this malicious moniker more than once during his 11-year NBA career, first with George Karl, then with Mike D’Antoni (per Frank Isola of the New York Daily News) and finally—though the feuds were more circumstantial than personal—with the recently jettisoned Mike Woodson.

Little does Melo know it now, but Derek Fisher, the New York Knicks’ newly minted skipper, is about to put an end to the trend.

Not because he was handpicked by Phil Jackson. Rather, because he’s the best possible coach for Anthony.



That Jackson explicitly went after his former Los Angeles Lakers point guard and 18-year NBA veteran was no accident, of course. If the Zen Master had any chance of convincing Anthony to stay, making what looked to be a “player-friendly” hire was of the utmost i ...

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