After the Orlando Magic got to the hoop for a pair of easy buckets to start the second half and stretch their lead to 10, Derek Fisher called for a timeout less than one minute into the third quarter. During that break, Coach Fish lit a fire under his team, sparking a 16-4 run. That [...]
The New York Knicks posted a pair of big victories early in the season, but they’ve fallen in a recent slump, including a home-and-home loss to the Atlanta Hawks. After the second of those losses Monday night, Knicks head coach Derek Fisher took his team into the locker room at Madison Square Garden with a [...]
Derek Fisher has preached defense to his team all season long and in the New York Knicks’ first benchmark game of the season against their rival, the Brooklyn Nets, that defense faltered. D-Fish’s defense had held its four previous opponents under 100 points, but it didn’t fare as well in the Barclays Center. After the [...]
It was an off shooting night for the New York Knicks go-to scorer, Carmelo Anthony, leaving the squad in a big hole against the Detroit Pistons—but Derek Fisher found what was almost a winning combination down the stretch. The Knicks nearly overcame a 76-59 deficit, as a rotation tweak by Coach Fish had his team [...]
After stringing together two remarkable wins, Derek Fisher’s first winning streak as an NBA head coach came to a halt Tuesday night, after his New York Knicks fell to the Washington Wizards 93-86 at Madison Square Garden. Just one game after watching Carmelo Anthony hang 28 points on the Charlotte Hornets to break the 20,000-point [...]
Derek Fisher’s New York Knicks knew they’d face a massive challenge against four of the Eastern Conference’s top teams to start the season, but rather than shy away from the fight, the Knicks have approached it head on to impressive results. After spoiling LeBron James’ return to Cleveland Thursday night, D-Fish’s squad turned around and [...]
On a banner opening night in Cleveland for the NBA and the Cavaliers, marking the return of LeBron James to his hometown team, Derek Fisher and his underdog New York Knicks went in and spoiled the party. It was one of the most anticipated nights of the season for the league, not for the matchup, [...]
As Derek Fisher makes his regular season head coaching debut for the New York Knicks, the start to his team’s schedule is resembling another lineup from New York sports history: the 1920s Yankees Murderers’ Row. The Knicks open up their season against the four teams that very well might end up the season as the [...]
Derek Fisher has had a long and storied relationship with his former coach and mentor, Knicks President Phil Jackson. But this summer, a month after accepting the job as coach of the Knicks from Jackson, Derek learned something about Phil and himself that he didn’t expect. The two took a trip to Kansas to visit [...]
As the preseason winds down, the New York Knicks took another step forward on Wednesday night and chalked up their first thrilling finish under Coach Derek Fisher. With 15 seconds left in a tie game, Carmelo Anthony made sure the Knicks wouldn't need extra time to dispatch of the Washington Wizards as he drained a go-ahead [...]