According to a report published Sunday in the Sacramento Bee, formerUtah Jazz guard Derek Fisher, who will be in EnergySolutions ArenaThursday as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, is bothered by the booshe hears when he returns to Utah. Fisher told Bee sports writer ScottHoward-Cooper that it is upsetting that people don't treat himpersonally.
"As much as you'd like to think as a player that people have acertain connection with you personally or have a certain feeling aboutwho you are as a person, at the end of the day, when you don't play forthat team anymore, they don't care about that for the most part."
"就个人而言，你愿意感谢一位人们与之有着某些联系的球员或是有着某些个人情感的球员。在那天结束之时，当你不再为球队打球了，他们不再关心你的大部分事情。"
It is difficult to overstate how far that statement is off themark, but let's try. The reason Jazz fans roundly booed Fisher on hisfirst visit to Utah in November, and why they are expected to followsuit Thursday, is precisely because it is personal. His statement thatthe fans don't relate to him personally is as deceptive as hisdeparture last summer when he got the Jazz to release him outrightbecause he needed to move to a place where his daughter's cancer couldbe treated — and then quickly signed with the Lakers.
