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FORMER NBA STAR FISHER ARRESTED AFTER ACCIDENT

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Former Los Angeles Lakers player and former New York Knicks head coach Derek Fisher was arrested Sunday on suspicion of drunken driving after he flipped his vehicle on a California highway, 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 U.S. 101 in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles 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 Highway Patrol 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.

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