To be fair to jazz fans, in the fisher situation i believe he said he wanted better medical care for his child (utah has great medical care for children) so he needed to be closer to the east coast..... then he signed with L.A. which is even further from the east coast. I could be wrong about that but that is how i remember it..... it seemed like he just wanted to play for the lakers and used his childs health as leverage to get away from the jazz.
That doesn't make sense when we went to the western conference finals the year before and the Lakers were out in the first round. Maybe he thought he was going to be able to sign with the Knicks or Celtics and he couldn't get a deal done so he signed with the Lakers.
I have no ill will for Derek Fisher, I was so happy when we got him and how he came back and helped us win playoff series. Just a terrible thing with his child and Jazz fans talking about how skipped town on us. The fact of the matter is, we didn't have to let him out of his contract, we knew what we were getting into, and we were the better team for letting him walk and find a better situation for him and his family.