Rather than making his return to the league while walking the sidelines in a suit, though, it seems Fisher, who retired following the 2013-14 season, would rather continue his basketball career riding the bench in a uniform.
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Fisher largely failed as a head coach in the National Basketball Association because he couldn’t separate himself from the locker room culture of being a player, as opposed to a coach.
Naturally, #BasketballTwitter is already speculating about what his return would be like.
On Tuesday, Fisher posted a video of him practicing on the hardwood to Facebook with the caption “Working on being a better me”.
According to a report from ESPN, the soon-to-be 42-year-old is “expressing interest in playing again”. Other options for Fisher would conceivably include playing for a team overseas.
Fisher, who began his coaching career in 2014 after ending his playing career with the Oklahoma City Thunder in the spring of that year, is reportedly trying to make a comeback as a player and not as a coach. He helped the Los Angeles Lakers win five championships, played in an NBA-record 259 playoff games and won a league-record 161.
Fisher was sacked as head coach of the Knicks on February 8 after a stretch in which the team went 1-9. Fisher’s inability to steady the Knicks offense and his off-court troubles-he got into an alleged physical altercation with current player Matt Barnes over their relationship with a woman-made him somewhat of a dark horse in the wake of his firing. But Fisher later denied that in a published essay.
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Fisher’s season-and-a-half coaching stint with the Knicks was such a disappointment (40-96) he’s gotten no feelers since.
