Knicks fire coach Fisher

The slumping New York Knicks sacked Derek Fisher on Monday, February 8, promoting Kurt Rambis to the job of interim head coach in a bid to reverse their sagging National Basketball Association fortunes.

The New York Knicks have fired head coach Derek Fisher midway through his second season. After an abysmal 17-65 season in his first year of coaching, Fisher finished his tenure in NY with a 40-96 record. The Knicks started off well enough with a 22-22 record on January 20, but since then, they have lost nine of their last ten including their last five straight.

Rambis, like Fisher a former Los Angeles Lakers player, went 56-145 in two seasons as Minnesota’s coach and part of a season leading the Lakers.

On the one hand, Fisher certainly wasn’t a Coach of the Year candidate.

Jackson had said in 2014 when he hired Fisher, “I’d like to have a prior relationship with a coach so that we know that we’ve gone through some kind of issues together “We’ve dealt with some kind of battle situations”.

According to Ian O’Connor, Tom Thibodeau wanted the Knicks head coaching job for quite some time now. “He’s going to be a head coach at some point”. Last season Fisher received a pass with Jackson reshaping the roster and Carmelo Anthony being shut down in February, but this season there was a little more pressure as the Knicks added some NBA-level talent to the roster.

Mired in a 1-9 skid and with their playoff hopes rapidly fading, the New York Knicks fired Coach Derek Fisher on Monday. And despite Shaw’s losing record in Denver, several Nuggets told The Post their former coach could handle NY and win in the Garden.

Ezeli has missed the last five games due to soreness in the knee. Fisher played for Jackson with the Los Angeles Lakers. “But as far as the development of the group, I think you’ll see he’ll be making more jokes than he’ll be critical”. Jackson hasn’t said if he expected or demanded a postseason berth, but Rambis said it should be the goal for fans and free agents. Chicago won 50 games in two other seasons under Thibodeau, and made the playoffs in each of the other two seasons he was at the helm-seasons during which Derrick Rose was sidelined by injuries.