By Matthew Shircliffe–
If you are a coach in the NBA nowadays, apparently winning is not cutting the mustard anymore. On Monday, the New York Knicks fired Derek Fisher after coaching for one-and-half seasons. Despite their mediocre start to the season, it is hard to place any blame for last season’s abysmal train wreck on Fisher. Phil Jackson dealt Fisher a pretty lousy deck getting rid of J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert and receiving nothing in return that Fisher could even work with or manage. This premature firing is not the first and certainly is not the most shocking in the last year, when the competitive job market for an NBA coach is scrutinized more now than ever.