Do The Right Thing: Hook Fisher Up
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The Lakers low-balling Derek Fisher is mind-blowing. They are offering him a 1-year deal worth $2.5 million, which is less than half of what Sasha Vujacic and Luke Walton each make. How insulting is that?
We were Fisher’s biggest critics during the regular season, but despite him losing a step at 35 and allowing opposing point guards blow by him like the wind in Oklahoma, his uncanny ability to deliver heroics throughout the NBA playoffs rank among the best in Laker lore.
Have Jerry Buss and Mitch Kupchak already forgotten Game 3 in Boston? That’s when D-Fish took over in the 4th quarter, when the Lakers had trouble generating much of anything offensively, and carried them to a huge victory that played as big a role in their repeat as any game of the 7-game series against the Celtics.
Just as important, as Arash Markazi mentions, Fisher is the only player on the Lakers who can make Kobe see the light when he sometimes doesn’t see at all. You can’t put a price tag on that.
Fisher also has 5 rings, just like Kobe. Without Fisher, the Lakers probably wouldn’t have won the last 2 NBA titles.
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