D-Fish for Mayor!

Here's a man who knows what it means to "put his family first." From Steve Dilbeck's column:

And though there has never been reason since to doubt (former Laker guard Derek) Fisher as a person of character, it was never more evident than this week.

Monday he did something almost unprecedented. He walked away from a guaranteed $20.6million.

He wants to spend more time in one of the handful of NBA cities that offer the appropriate medical care for his 1-year-old daughter, who has a rare form of eye cancer.

So he asked the Utah Jazz to release him from the final three years of his contract, and to owner Larry Miller's great credit, he did.

"Life for me has always outweighed the game of basketball," Fisher said.

That's character.