Last Updated on June 4, 2017 by CCAR Staff
LOS ANGELES >> Former Lakers player and ex-New York Knicks coach Derek Fisher was arrested Sunday on suspicion of drunken driving after he flipped his vehicle on the 101 Freeway, authorities said.
Neither Fisher nor his passenger, girlfriend and former “Basketball Wives” reality star Gloria Govan, was injured in the early morning crash, the California Highway Patrol said.
Fisher was driving on the 101 in Sherman Oaks when his 2015 Cadillac veered onto the right shoulder while approaching an interchange. The car hit the shoulder’s concrete curb and guardrail, overturned and came to a rest on its roof, blocking two lanes of the highway, the CHP said.
Officers discovered that Fisher had been drinking and arrested him on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol after a DUI test, authorities said.
CHP officials said they didn’t know if Fisher had a lawyer to speak on his behalf. An email left for a publicity company listed under his name and messages on his website and Twitter weren’t immediately returned.
After his playing career ended, Fisher was hired in June 2014 to be the first coach for Knicks President of Basketball Operations Phil Jackson, under whom Fisher won five championships with the Lakers.
The first season was the worst in franchise history with a 17-65 record, but the team played better early in the second season before Jackson fired Fisher last February with the Knicks in a 1-9 tailspin.
Fisher has been working as an analyst for TNT as well as for Spectrum SportsNet’s Lakers coverage this season.
