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Booing Fisher not classy act by Jazz fan

Utah fans are like school in the summer - absolutely no class.

As a Jazz/Utes fan who no longer lives in Utah, I am continually embarrassed by sports fans in the state of Utah. Throwing stuff at the Spurs after Game 4? Booing Derek Fisher? All the inane back and forth between Utah and BYU fans about religion?

Sports fans in Utah are generally perceived as lacking sophistication and class by those outside the state, and unfortunately here is more ammunition.

there were a few people booing and i garauntee the same situation in every other city he would have been booood too (except maybe san antonio). good points in the article but it would have been the same everywhere else and no one can argue that.

Right on Loren...Utah Spazz fans stink! I gave up on the Spazz and their fans years ago, so should everyone else...

A player like Derek Fisher should not booed here or any other arena. He represents what is best about sports. He is a class act trying his best to do the sport he loves and take care of his infant daughter. He gave it his all for the Utah Jazz.

On second thought, any Jazz fans booing Fisher really makes me sick.

He left on good terms with the owner, coaches and players and we should respect his service. If fans have to boo people the quality of Derek Fisher, this world is truly sick...

I don't trust Fish, never have. He plays the ambassador very well, but I think it's fake. I've seen enough evidence, and his leaving the jazz was suspicious.

That being said, I am very glad he is not with the jazz this year. The jazz are MUCH better off without him.

As for the booing...hey, any player who leaves a team to go play for a rival is gonna get booed.
Even Johnny Damon got booed by the RedSox fans.

All I can say is that Fisher got what he deserved...he's playing for the one trick show Lakers, who will be lucky if they make the playoffs. As for the booing, welcome to sports. The Bogut and Miller comparisons are totally different. These were college players at the U who had no choice where they were playing in the NBA.

Really? You really think that you can compare the circumstances of Johnny Damon leaving the Sox to Fisher leaving the Jazz??? Damon had an offer on the table, but he left for more money to play with the the Yankees. He would not have been booed if he had not gone to the Yankees (this is the most heated rivalry in sports with 100 year tradition).

Fisher left money on the table. He had no guarantee of a contract anywhere else when he left. He left to care for his daughter and he is now making LESS money than he would have made with the Jazz. You cannot compare these two circumstances at ALL! Fisher has class, Damon does not.

I am glad "whatever saw" the total difference in the bogut miller reference. come on jorgensen, Its all milk toast. find something worthwhile to write about.

I think what makes most people upset is that the best place for Tatums care was apparently in New York. I think most everyone expected him to sign out east much closer to NY somewhere. However as soon as he was let out he signed with the Fakers the most despised team in the NBA by everyone except of course Faker fans.

Now to me it seems Utah is closer to NY then LA and it seems that Salt Lake does have an airport with flights to NY daily. Last I read he was still taking his daughter to NY for her treatment. That may have changed now but I do recall an article early in the season mentioning this.

I think had Derek gone back east closer to NY he would not be booed but cheered for what he did for the Jazz last year. I think he showed Deron and Boozer how to be leaders which has helped the team tremendously.

Fisher just needs to realize that he would receive this type reception no matter what team he played with in the NBA not just Jazz Fans.

Classless act by Jazz fans. Even doctors in SLC were quoted in area newspapers as saying the treatment Fisher's daughter needed did not exist in SLC. I'm a huge Jazz fan, but I was embarassed. Shame on those of you who booed.

People lose sight of life for basketball which is really an unbalanced view of things. How sad that Fisher's self-titled "most special basketball moments" will be forever tainted by boos. Worse, fans are not smart enough not to do it next time too.

Loren Jorgensen is correct. Booing Fisher was boorish, lowdown, and completely out of character for Salt Lake City. I watched the game on ESPN. Given Fisher's contributions to the Jazz last year, especially during the playoffs while his daughter was so ill, I expected he would be greeted warmly in appreciation for his contributions last season, and for being the class act he is. Instead, he was greeting with the affection usually reserved for Benedict Arnold.

Cheering for the home team is traditional and fine. Booing the visiting team also is traditional, but not fine. And behaving like beer-soaked bleacher bums from, say, Detroit, is disgusting and demeaning. The boobirds who heaped abuse on Fisher not only diminished my enjoyment of the game, not only engaged in unsportsmanlike behavior; they flouted the norms of human decency. It was shameful. It bodes ill for sportsmanship in Salt Lake City that some of my fellow commenters are defending those punks.

I am a fanatical Jazz fan and I was extreamly embarassed. I hate the lakers as much as any one who booed, but what a classless, ignorant act by Jazz fans. Remember this is just a game, a way for us to forget about real life for a couple of hours. Fishers reason was for his family, nothing is more important than that. Craig, Whatever and all the ESA boo birds grow up!

C'mon!!! This is basketball.. Bottom line is winning for Jazz fans< it's sports!!!!!!!! If Fisher is going to play for Utah's largest rivalary, he's gonna get booed...

That was childish to boo Fisher! Even though I was a Fisher Fan while he was here, we are better off with out him now, especially for the developement of our young guys getting to play and step up their game. This is helping us for the long haul. So why boo a player that is no longer needed. It just tells them that we still want them here, so if your booing him it means you still want him here. Go be a Sorry Laker Fan then.

There is nothing classless about booing. That's what we as fans do. Fish is a Laker, I hate the Lakers. He made a bad choice of teams to go to. And if you really think he left with out not knowing where he was going to end up your crazy! As far as basketball goes, he did us a favor. As for his family, God bless and best wishes.

I didn't mind the boos, I think Fisher could have gone to a team in the East and he would have been treated a hole lot better. By watching the game it looked like Deron Williams wasn't to happy with D-Fish leaving. Every time they matched up one-on-one Deron broke Fisher's ankles.
GO JAZZ

WE WEREN'T BOOING, we were chanting: "though we appreciate your contributions last year, and we wish the best for your daughter, the way you asked to leave (after not really wanting to come here in the first place, mind you), and the speed with which you signed with the much-hated Lakers left a bad taste, and was a little, if we may, fish-y. We can't help but feel that with all the resources ($) at your disposal as far as caring for your daughter, if you really wanted to play for us, you'd be playing for us. Not that we miss you that badly, because, quite frankly, we are rather excited about Ronnie Brewer."

It just SOUNDED like booing, see?

We had our chance Salt Lake City, now it seems as though we are no different than the rest of the NBA world.