<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">One week before Utah finalized a trade for Derek Fisher, Karl Malone was in town on auto dealership business, and he was talking to Jazz owner Larry Miller. "I remember what Karl said that day," Miller recalled. "He said, 'If you can get him, I highly, highly recommend it.' '' Teammates with the Los Angeles Lakers during the 2003-04 season, the never-easy-to-impress Malone became a huge fan of Fisher, whose professionalism during the tumultuous final year of the Shaquille O'Neal-Kobe Bryant Era was impossible to miss and hard not to admire. On Friday afternoon, Miller was smiling, because the trade that brought Fisher from Golden State for Devin Brown, Keith McLeod and Andre Owens became official. Fisher passed his physical and was introduced to Utah during a news conference at the Jazz's practice facility. "This, to me, is a very significant trade for the franchise," Miller said. "Derek is a very important element with what we're trying to create here." </div> <div align="center">Source</div>
