Derek Fisher

Derek Fisher

Fisher with the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2014
Personal information
Born	(1974-08-09) August 9, 1974 (age 49) Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
Listed height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight	210 lb (95 kg)
Career information
High school	Parkview Arts and Science Magnet (Little Rock, Arkansas)
College	Little Rock (1992–1996)
NBA draft	1996: 1st round, 24th overall pick
Selected by the Los Angeles Lakers
Playing career	1996–2014
Position	Point guard
Number	2, 4, 37, 6
Coaching career	2014–present
Career history
As player:
1996–2004	Los Angeles Lakers
2004–2006	Golden State Warriors
2006–2007	Utah Jazz
2007–2012	Los Angeles Lakers
2012	Oklahoma City Thunder
2012	Dallas Mavericks
2013–2014	Oklahoma City Thunder
As coach:
2014–2016	New York Knicks
2019–2022	Los Angeles Sparks
Career highlights and awards
As player: 5× NBA champion (2000–2002, 2009, 2010) Sun Belt Player of the Year (1996) 2× All-Sun Belt (1995, 1996)
Career NBA statistics
Points	10,713 (8.3 ppg)
Rebounds	2,658 (2.1 rpg)
Assists	3,804 (3.0 apg)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Derek Lamar Fisher (born August 9, 1974) is an American professional basketball coach and former player. Fisher played professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 18 seasons, spending the majority of his career with the Los Angeles Lakers, with whom he won five NBA championships. He also played for the Golden State Warriors, Utah Jazz, Oklahoma City Thunder, and Dallas Mavericks. He has also served as president of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA).

Fisher played college basketball for the Arkansas–Little Rock Trojans, earning the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year in 1996. Selected by the Lakers with the 24th pick in the 1996 NBA draft, he spent his first eight seasons with the franchise, winning three consecutive league championships (2000–2002) with teammates Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal and coach Phil Jackson. After the 2003–04 NBA season, he signed as a free agent with the Golden State Warriors, later being traded to the Utah Jazz, whom he helped lead to the Western Conference finals. Due to his daughter's health, he asked to be released from his contract in 2007. He rejoined the Lakers and won two more NBA titles with Bryant and Jackson.

In 2012, he was traded to the Houston Rockets, where he bought out his contract and was waived at his request. He then joined the Oklahoma City Thunder for the remainder of the season, playing for the 2012 NBA championship in his eighth Finals appearance. After signing with the 2012–13 Dallas Mavericks he played only nine games before being injured and asking to be released from his contract. He later rejoined the Oklahoma City Thunder for another late-season push. He re-signed with them in the off-season and played in a team-high 81 regular-season games for the team in 2013–14.^[1] The following season, he was hired as the head coach of the New York Knicks by Jackson, who had become the team's president. He was fired in 2016, and has since been featured as a broadcast television analyst on Turner Sports' NBA programming.^[2] Fisher also joined Spectrum SportsNet for the 2016–17 NBA season to work as an in-studio analyst for the Los Angeles Lakers.^[3] On January 19, 2017, Fisher was announced as one of the analysts for Turner Sports' new Players Only programming slate.^[4] He was the head coach of the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 2019 to 2022.