DevilsAdv wrote:You're making the assumption that he only got offered a deal from the Heat and Lakers. I think there are more than two teams in the NBA who would love his leadership.
I'll admit I'm bitter, and it was probably to the Jazz's benefit that Fisher left (i.e. Wesley Mathews PT).
However; I'll respond to your two points:
1) The market is pretty open now days. If another team had made Fisher a more lucrative offer than than the Lakers, then I beleive it would have made the news. The fact that Fisher always has to set himself up to look like a great guy, just seems really pretentious to me. (i.e., 1) leaving the Jazz to join the Laker for his daughter, and 2) signing with the Lakers because it was his highest offer but stating otherwise),
2) It always stuns me when a player from their unsolicited comittee of one, declares themselves as the team leader. My question was somewhat serious. Leader of what??? On the court he is not anywhere as good as Kobe, Bynum, Gasol, or Odom, and no one looks to him to be a major contributor on the floor. Off the court, there are a few dents in the armor. So what is it he is leading.
Of course this was a waste of both our time (my writing and your reading), as Fisher is not a terrible person, but he is not the greatest guy in the world either.