Personal
Fisher is the younger brother of former NBA player Duane Washington, who is ten years Fisher's senior. Washington played for the New Jersey Nets and the Los Angeles Clippers.
In 2009, Fisher had a temporary restraining order placed on a 40-year-old female stalker, Symone Fisher, who had been victimising him since 2001. She had insisted she and Derek Fisher were married, and had even changed her surname to match his. He had the order extended by three years, expiring in May, 2012.
In 2010, it was initially reported on an Oklahoma City radio station that Fisher was involved in an altercation at an Oklahoma City Waffle House. While he admitted he was a police witness to a fight that broke out between two customers at a Waffle House in Oklahoma City during a visit with the Lakers after a regular season game in 2009, Fisher denied having been a participant in the latest allegation, which he labeled as false.
Fisher's nickname is D-Fish. He acquired his nickname while playing with the Los Angeles Lakers.
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