BluesRocker
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I am sure that it has been talked about at lengths around here, and I know how mad it makes the seasoned posters around here to talk about old subjects. But since there are a lot of new people and this is the nature of a message board, here we go.
There is all the this talk about whether to boo or not to boo Deron, or former players. And I have heard other posters in here bring up the Fisher booing.
I take the position that we shouldn't boo Deron, and it would be B.S. to do so. But Fisher is a different story. Now, to an outsider it may seem that Jazz fans are messed up for booing him for leaving. And it would be if he didn't leave the way he did.
Here is my version of what happened and I would like to see what the rest of you think.
I remember the day when the press conference was held for Fisher to announce that he was asking out of his contract so he could care for his daughter. A lot of people in the main stream media I bet missed this. I think that they would have a different opion if they heard what was said. During the press conference Fisher had everybody sold, including Larry Miller, that he believed his career was over. He was asked repeatedly if he thought he would play again and he made it clear that it was doubtful. He claimed that the only care he could get was in New York and New York alone. And that he was going to need to be with his daughter during that time. He claimed that he could not adhere to the demands of the traveling that being in the nba requires. He had Larry Miller in tears and just about everyone else at that press conference. I remember really feeling bad for the man at the time. It was a very emotional press conference. Heck, he even had the commisioner convinced that this was necessary.
Literally three weeks later he was signing with the Lakers!
HuH?
What?
Derrick I thought you were done. And what about being with your daughter? L.A. isn't closer to New York than Utah.
That is what Jazz fans were thinking!
I think that Jazz fans really felt burned by this. And so did Larry Miller. To me that man used his daughter's health problems to get back to the Lakers and he knew what he was doing. His daughter wasn't miraculously cured and nothing could have changed three weeks later. So that is why he gets booed around here. Not because Utah fans are terrible people. I hate that the media didn't do their homework on this.
There is all the this talk about whether to boo or not to boo Deron, or former players. And I have heard other posters in here bring up the Fisher booing.
I take the position that we shouldn't boo Deron, and it would be B.S. to do so. But Fisher is a different story. Now, to an outsider it may seem that Jazz fans are messed up for booing him for leaving. And it would be if he didn't leave the way he did.
Here is my version of what happened and I would like to see what the rest of you think.
I remember the day when the press conference was held for Fisher to announce that he was asking out of his contract so he could care for his daughter. A lot of people in the main stream media I bet missed this. I think that they would have a different opion if they heard what was said. During the press conference Fisher had everybody sold, including Larry Miller, that he believed his career was over. He was asked repeatedly if he thought he would play again and he made it clear that it was doubtful. He claimed that the only care he could get was in New York and New York alone. And that he was going to need to be with his daughter during that time. He claimed that he could not adhere to the demands of the traveling that being in the nba requires. He had Larry Miller in tears and just about everyone else at that press conference. I remember really feeling bad for the man at the time. It was a very emotional press conference. Heck, he even had the commisioner convinced that this was necessary.
Literally three weeks later he was signing with the Lakers!
HuH?
What?
Derrick I thought you were done. And what about being with your daughter? L.A. isn't closer to New York than Utah.
That is what Jazz fans were thinking!
I think that Jazz fans really felt burned by this. And so did Larry Miller. To me that man used his daughter's health problems to get back to the Lakers and he knew what he was doing. His daughter wasn't miraculously cured and nothing could have changed three weeks later. So that is why he gets booed around here. Not because Utah fans are terrible people. I hate that the media didn't do their homework on this.
