Derek Fisher and the New York Knicks went to New Orleans Tuesday night with one chief objective: Keep the Pelicans, the NBA’s top team on the inside, out of the painted area. But not much has gone according to plan for the Knicks over the course of their current losing streak and that trend continued [...]
Derek Fisher’s New York Knicks took the floor at Madison Square Garden ready to snap their five-game skid, and they had the Cleveland Cavaliers on the ropes at the famed arena—but they couldn’t land the knockout blow. The Knicks led by as many as seven in the final quarter, but the Cavs came back and [...]
It was another night and another narrow defeat for Derek Fisher and the New York Knicks. Fish’s squad played host to their crosstown rival, the Brooklyn Nets, at Madison Square Garden, and Nets escaped across the Hudson River with a 98-93 win, marking now 11 single-digit losses for New York, including four in its last [...]
Derek Fisher and the New York Knicks hoped that the Thanksgiving weekend would bring winds of change, but it brought more of the same: close defeats. Of the Knicks’ 14 losses this season, 10 have come by just single digits, including two over the long holiday weekend. After a Sunday night defeat at the hands [...]
After his team's narrow 86-79 defeat at the hands of the Miami Heat, New York Knicks Coach Derek Fisher met with the media to discuss his team's effort in the loss, which sent them to a 4-14 record for the season. Though he feels the Knicks are making progress, Coach Fisher noted their struggle in trying [...]
With five minutes left in a huge road test against the Houston Rockets, Derek Fisher’s New York Knicks held a lead and looked around the court for Carmelo Anthony, their top scorer and best closer—but he was nowhere to be found. Melo had exited the game with back spasms in the second quarter, leaving the [...]
Derek Fisher’s New York Knicks squad had seen its share of close, heartbreaking losses in recent weeks, so after seeing his team close out a victory Saturday, Coach Fish was content with the win, even though the final score was closer than expected. New York led the Philadelphia 76ers by as many as 21 but [...]
On Derek Fisher’s first day as the coach of the New York Knicks, he immediately began preaching his defense-first philosophy, even though the majority of the buzz was surrounding the implementation of the triangle offense. Through their first 13 games of the season, the Knicks have made major strides offensively, but in Game No. 13, [...]
If there's one thing Derek Fisher and the New York Knicks can hang their hat on early in the 2014-15 season, it's their resiliency. Under Coach Fisher, the Knicks have shown they will not give up, no matter the odds they face. They proved it again on Tuesday night in Milwaukee. Coming off a win on [...]
Derek Fisher and the New York Knicks welcomed two Western Conference foes to Madison Square Garden over the weekend, and the two-game slate brought both a heartbreaking loss and a much-needed bounceback victory. An improved Utah Jazz squad came to town Friday night and sunk the Knicks on a buzzer-beater by Trey Burke, handing Fish’s [...]