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One collector is trying to find a single signature from every man who ever played for the Jazz — all 370 of them, from the 1974 New Orleans team to today. For many of them, this page is the only one on the internet. Here is Derek Fisher: what he did on the floor, a few things most people never knew, and every card that carries his name. If you own something he signed — or you know who might — there is a note at the foot of this page.
Five championship rings came with the Lakers, but Utah got a meaningful chapter: acquired from Golden State, Fisher helped lead the 2006–07 Jazz to the Western Conference finals. The Little Rock native, Sun Belt Player of the Year at Arkansas-Little Rock in 1996, retired holding the NBA record for postseason games played with 259.
In 2007 he asked the Jazz to release him from his contract because of his daughter's health, and the team agreed. He went on to serve as president of the players' union, coach the Knicks and the WNBA's Sparks, and pledge $700,000 to his alma mater, which named a gym in his honor.
HOW HE CAME & WENTUtah acquired him on July 12, 2006 for Keith McLeod, Andre Owens and Devin Brown. A year later he asked to be released so he could move his daughter closer to specialist cancer care, and the Jazz let him go.
- Full name
- Derek Lamar Fisher
- Utah Jazz tenure
- 2006–07
- Position
- Guard
- Born
- 1974, Little Rock, Arkansas
- Height
- 6′1″ (185 cm)
- Weight
- 201 lb (91 kg)
- College
- Arkansas-Little Rock
- Drafted
- 1996, 1st round (No. 24), Los Angeles Lakers
- Why this player is hard to find
- Eighty-two games for the Jazz between his championship years in Los Angeles, and later president of the players' union. Signed Jazz cards exist in numbers.
A card. A photo. A program. A page from an old autograph book. Anything he put his name on.
You do not need to know what it is. Take a photo with your phone and send it to me. I will tell you what you have, for free, whether or not anything comes of it. I pay the postage both ways. I answer every message myself, usually the same day.
With the Jazz
DEREK FISHER · 2006–07 · PER GAME| SEASON | TEAM | G | MPG | PPG | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006–07 | UTA | 82 | 27.9 | 10.1 | 1.8 | 3.3 | 1.0 | 0.1 | .382 | .308 | .853 |
| JAZZ TOTAL | 1 SEASON | 82 | 27.9 | 10.1 | 1.8 | 3.3 | 1.0 | 0.1 | .382 | .308 | .853 |
Season by season, regular season, with this franchise only. More info: Basketball-Reference ↗ · Wikipedia ↗
Did you know
DEREK FISHER · 8 NOTES- His 0.4-second shot against San Antonio in 2004 is one of the most famous in playoff history.
- Left the Jazz to seek medical care for his daughter, and the club released him from his contract without compensation.
- Kobe Bryant called him the favorite teammate he ever played with.
- The family house in Little Rock sat directly behind Parkview High School, the same gym where Arkansas great Sidney Moncrief worked on his shot.
- He could not make the varsity as a sophomore, then became the most successful of the seven Parkview players who reached Division I.
- In the 2007 playoffs he landed in Salt Lake City with the game already underway, took a police escort to the arena, and won it in overtime.
- In Oklahoma City he wore No. 37 because that was his age, and in Dallas he wore No. 6 to mark the hunt for a sixth ring.
- Since 2023 he has coached the basketball team at Crespi Carmelite, a Catholic high school in Encino, California.