He’s proven to be a better workplace politician than player or coach lmao. This is in his DNA and he’s thriving

For the Bucks, IIRC he literally went on a podcast or something saying, “I don’t know why you all are trying to hire me”. Guess he wasn’t turning down a multimillion paycheck lmao

Why? Would you pass up $10 mil a year for the past 6 years just so redditors have a better opinion of you?

As a sixers fan I agree wholeheartedly

I genuinely think back to how the hell the Cs won a title with Doc Rivers as head coach. Every year that passes, I consider it a more and more a Herculean effort from the trio of Pierce/Garnett/Allen. They won once with Doc Rivers. That should count for like 5 titles.

He had tens of millions of reasons why he shouldn’t have hung it up.

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I mean the guy has the ultimate job security in terms of being able to continue getting hired for the same role after repeatedly getting fired. I’d keep doing it as long as they let me and just collect those checks just for showing up to work. Lol

He’s 4th all time in wins, I’m sure he is happy with that

Idt his time in PHI was that bad. Brown had clearly lost it with the team as constructed and then Doc had to deal with Ben Simmons sitting out then finally made the harden trade and still had a two game win increase.

Obviously the expectations were high and he didn’t meet them but that team was totally dysfunctional but not 100% because of him.

*celtics

You never hear players talk about him either

I never saw “Celtics” written like that.

Bro is a Hall of Fame coach from that one stint so yeah

He should seriously go on to an ambassador role for basketball working for the nba in some capacity and not coach ever again.

Doc is ruining every franchise he touches 

like many public divorces

Both sides are for the most part getting what they deserve

Mutually assured destruction.

That’s just how it is when your divorce is at least a year late.

Wasn’t giannis the one who pushed for him in the first place? Or was it more so he didn’t like Adrian Griffin

After reading the article I don’t think so. He’s focused more on the lack of a reliable 2nd option on the roster, and pushing back on the idea that he’s involved with front office decisions.

“If I’m going down, I’m taking everyone else down with me” - Giannis

We have a wonderful Greek community for Giannis in the Greater Boston area.

No. He hasn’t been healthy for playoffs for several years.

just to entertain, I am curious what a realistic trade would look like tbh

What a world it’d be if he took a minimum contract to come just farm rings with us

Duuude i want to keep Neemy

Big threes don’t work, we’d have to give up too much depth as cool as it would be

He’s made enough money, we can probably get him with the MLE

/s

Would y’all really want to destroy that core for him?

Ime loves doing that. Stood out immediately how he always called out players and seemed to lack some accountability

The moment that sold me on mazulla was when he came out after game 3 2023 ECF and said he lost the locker room and needed to do better. I thought it was insane for him to do that, with everyone ready to pounce after going down 0-3 and year long narratives of being a stopgap replacement coach, and for sure he’d get fired. But it also takes a lot of confidence and integrity to be able to take accountability like that. Fast forward a few years and he’s considered among the elite coaches

I could only ever excuse it if it was an effort/attitude problem but it would have to already be public and VERY bad.

Otherwise, just keep that shit in house. It seems like these coaches who do it are playing more to the media/fanbase than trying to lead a team.

Yeah, I don’t know why. But I picture every end of bench guy playing Joe everyday in 1 on 1 games to try and get the ready.

Your coach JJ is not far off either, and I think he’s done a great job with you guys so far. I think at one point Joe tried to recruit him to join his bench. Game recognizes game

In Brad we trust.

Don’t forget the bench lineup. Head coach Charles Lee and Will Hardy now. Sam Cassell is still there fortunately

Can’t blame Brad for Ime. Unless Ime had a history, there’s no way to predict something like that is going to happen.

Its weird how the Celtics, Spurs and Heat keep ending up with good coaches. Must be luck.

Outside of the chaos that followed the deaths of Len and Reggie, there haven’t been many major missteps in the history of the Celtics franchise. Maybe Kyrie? Even the Pitino era might well have been successful had we not suffered player deaths, or if the ‘97 pick had gone to us over the Spurs.

Don’t get me wrong, we haven’t been perfect, but we never traded a Luka, passed on a Devin Booker, or gutted our scouting team to coast on vibes and an opportune locale.

“Decent” is a funny way of describin a guy who made the finals his first year while taking out a nets superteam, the defend buck champs, and a veteran heat team helmed by the greatest coach in the league 😂😂😂

Gotta disagree. Unless the NBA is lying about Giannis refusing to practice in 3 on 3s. 

I don’t think he specifically wanted him. I think the Bucks just made a panic move and Doc’s big ass head was sitting there and they didn’t know what else to do. Giannis was probably asked and probably just said OK because he has a championship and didn’t know any better.

What is the opposite of catching strays? Because that’s precisely what just happened with these comments.

Joe knows he can get away with that because his stars are so unselfish. Plenty of stars would be getting upset about how Joe treats them

Firing Griffin was absolutely not a mistake. The only mistake was hiring Doc.

As every single clippers and sixers fan warned and fully expected. It’s a mystery to me how anyone is fooled

You don’t think Giannis had a hand in picking Doc though? They’re not going to fire Griffin because Giannis wanted him gone the not run the new coach by him

Lot of hand -wringing about the roster but me and a lot of Bucks fans feel the coaching is the number one problem.

The roster is their number one problem, like come on this is so obvious. Their roster fucking sucks ass.

Do you or bucks fans wish Adrian griffin was given the rest of his season before being replaced?

Charismatic indeed. Doc would be out of the league if he didn’t have that voice of gold

One time this season Mazzulla benched Brown for messing up. No choice but for everyone to play hard, how it should be

Good luck killing the immortal Doctor Rivers, if Giannis was able to do that, the NBA should give him a medal for saving future franchises

Unstoppable force vs immovable object

It’s actually very easy  

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Catching strays is when an innocent bystander gets shot by accident. It’s not called catching strays when someone shoots bullets directly at you.