Bobby Portis says Doc Rivers didn’t tell the team he was stepping down as coach and left without saying goodbye
A leader ladies and gentlemen. A leader.
Google his leadership skills. This is a clear display of such. It’s even in his Wikipedia article, just look it up!
Doc: GOOGLE ME
Bobby Portis: whistles that’s a lot of 3-1 leads, Glenn
and I’m pretty sure you’re not a doctor even though you convinced me to let you do my colonoscopy
Doc: “hey Bobby, a lot of coaches never even get to 3 wins in a series. Guess I would’ve been better off getting swept?”
Yo you wanna talk about leadership?? Google him /s
Look at his resume!
And he will somehow still get another HC job next season
It would have to be a torture kink for the next team to even consider hiring him after this
You realize thats what 90% of this sub said before the Bucks hired him, right?
It’s also what Doc said lmao
90% of Bucks fans said this too. Was a just a disastrous “wtf” moment.
99.9%
The slim tenth of a percent were the “stop the bleeding” folks
It’s hilaroously sad that this was the Hail Mary to keep Giannis. Doc Rivers. As head coach.
We got a new owner, nobody knows what the fuck he’s gonna do. I’m terrified he’s gonna bump into Doc in a greenroom sometime in the next 12 months
Sacramento Kings step right up
I highly doubt it.
About 6 NBA GMs just felt personally challenged and can’t explain why.
You mean New Orleans?
I’ve hung in for so long, but I’m just going full afk if we hire Doc.
Honestly, fans should be a lot less loyal to sports teams. I don’t think people should jump ship when a team is bad, but when the owner just doesn’t give shit … Why should fans. Don’t stay in abusive relationships.
Nah I’m ride or die, but I would draw the line at Doc Rivers lmao.
I think Gayle does care, she just has negative ball knowledge and a very outdated approach in general. She’s been hoping to find her Mickey Loomis of basketball for years now, Dumars is just another shot at that. They even tried just giving Mickey both jobs lmao
What if it was Mosley though
I hate it. But I’ll still be around to complain about it don’t you worry.
He’ll be hitting the links with the DeVos family in June. Coaching the Magic by August
LOL… you don’t get how Doc operates… he’ll worm his way into a team as he did with the Bucks by being a consultant… then when the team comes under playoff pressure or there is mass player disaffection, he makes his move…
he knows he won’t get a job based on merit, so engages in the dark arts… I personally see him eyeing off the Rockets HC next season…
lol the dark arts of head coaching
Him saying he wants to spend more time with his grandkids wasn’t his out to retire. Just an out from Milwaukee to terrorize a new fan base
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The current NBA? Doc was hired like 2 years ago. That’s the current NBA.
The current NBA is hiring coaches who haven’t been in the league for the last decade. They’re giving newer coaches a chance instead of opting to go for underachieving coaches like doc. Pretty obvious.
Yes, smart organizations are doing that. But others are not. For example, the Milwaukee Bucks hired Doc Rivers in the current NBA….
Eh, I could see a desperate team willing to give him full control.
He must have epstein levels of blackmail material on the whole league. Only way it makes sense
Why? He’s a top 15 coach of all time obviously. The NBA said so
lets even argue he is, 15 then and whats happening now is different
whether it was on purpose or not, he just seemed to befriend the entire sports media so none of them will speak badly of him
Check his resume dawg
I’m very well aware of his resume dawg
He’s going back to the Magic isn’t he?
I think he’s even damaged his position as a media personality. Last time he lost his job he was really well liked. I loved him on pods and I love him covering games but he clearly holds a grudge and doesn’t take accountability.
Pelicans I’m sure
Leave it to a celtics legend to irish goodbye.
LOL
Thank you for makin’ this comment, exactly what I was lookin’ for.
Doc “google me” Rivers gonna stumple into a job within the next 3 years, isn’t he.
The man genuinely took the prime of multiple amazing players and ensured they were never competitive ever again. On multiple teams.
Podcasting, sure. He’s done coaching though.
Fucking awful listen on pods too, got a two-packs-a-day-ass voice
You need more Ubuntu!
he got this job solely off his pod with simmons and i’m afraid he’s gonna bc back on it
That’s Orlando Magic head coach (again) Doc Rivers to you.
I know you’re talking about a head coaching job, but The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand who covers the sports media industry did say that it’s “unlikely” Rivers would be back at ESPN. The implication there is that he burned his bridges there leaving in the middle of the season.
I think there is finally too much egg on his face. I don’t think it will be a head coaching job again at least.
Feel like 2020 onwards Doc has driven his reputation off a cliff. For a little bit after 2019, he was being gassed up for taking the under-manned Clippers to the playoffs. But since then he’s just put on a disaster class in dealing with reporters, team performance, and building relationships with players.
I think Doc has always been a great floor raiser coach. He can get under talented teams to push beyond what most think they would be capable of.
That being said he’s show for a long time now that he can’t get teams that’s are already talented to do the same often they under deliver.
In other words if ur an up and coming young team, he’s the coach for you to help develop those players, if your a team that is championship ready then stay the fuck away from him.
I feel like this has been known across the league for a while now but people still keep thinking he can push elite talent to a championship.
Can we even point to what makes Doc a floor raiser coach? After seeing what Joe Mazzulla did this season, that’s what I expect a floor raising coach to do. Doc just seems like a lucky Darvin Hamas
2018-19 Clippers (record 48-34)
It should be noted that its really the only example of him being a floor raiser though.
Here is the roster for that team, along with the number of minutes played by each player (above 400 regular season minutes)
This sub is insane. Doc is an old school coach who’s best asset is getting his star players on the same page and happy. When the star is butting heads with the FO it’s beyond his control. He’s getting passed by in the analytics era because he prefers to let his stars dictate the game flow than demand certain actions, sets, or shot diets because the stats say it’s better to do so.
The Clippers did well but couldn’t get over the hump, sure you can give Doc some blame, but even the players admit that they didn’t fully buy in to Chris Paul at times and they rarely had it ‘figured out’. The sterling saga and his influence prior to that didn’t help.
The bucks had the Damian disaster and Giannis butting heads with the FO long before Doc got there. If Lillard was healthy and they couldn’t even scratch a contender team then people would have a point, but what we’re they going to do at the point they are waiving him?
Believe it or not coaching in the NBA is not strictly who is the best X and O’s guy but a lot of it is who can manage millionaire egos and get people to sacrifice potentially millions more to play a role to boost the team. In a perfect world, you have an innovative, smart, versatile basketball coach who can also connect with his players and get them to buy in, but there are like 5 of those in the league at a time.
Nick Nurse is kind of the polar opposite of Doc Rivers. He’s generally disliked and has a hard time connecting with his bosses, staff, players, etc. but he is a basketball genius and really understands analytics. He also had some success, but mostly struggles. It’s not always sunshine.
Damn if only there was a guy whose job it was to get them to buy in and ‘figure it out’. Unlucky there
I’m just not sure what people expect from a not fully in Giannis and the boys.
The top 5 he had to play were Ryan Rollins, A.J. Green, Myles Turner, Kyle Kuzma, and Bobby Portis. Giannis only played 1000 minutes this season, that’s 9th.
What is there to buy in and figure out this season? Ryan Rollins going nuclear?
It’s clear the experiment was over after they waived Dame, Doc was brought in for the Giannis/Dame partnership. He’s on borrowed time after that. But to blame him for this season or the Bucks situation as a whole is crazy when Dame never really played and they traded the farm for him.
This doesn’t excuse the unprofessionalism but Doc is 64 and this was his 27th season in a row as an NBA head coach. It’s a high intensity job and I would imagine it’s hard to do a healthy amount of self-reflection without being separated from it for a while. He probably was being truthful when he said he didn’t intend to coach the Bucks but the bag was too big, and he took it. Just like Phil Jackson with the Knicks, or Monty Williams with the Pistons. You know you’re cooked but you still want the check.
You see this a lot in the NHL with the big retread names, their tactical and character flaws seem to get worse with age, especially when they don’t take any time off.
wonder who else is on the list of players or coaches who have taken the biggest reputation hits since 2020? Can only really think of monty williams, went from coach of the year to internally sabotaging the pistons that went from 15 to 44 to 60 wins since getting rid of him
Monty can’t hear you over the piles and piles of money he scammed out of a prison phone magnate (good for him tbh)
Since 2020 ? The answer is Ben Simmons . In 2020, he was 23, 3rd team All-NBA, 2-time All-Star, 1st team All-Defensive
Now, he’s out of the league, possibly soon-to-be retired, and memed as the young socialite with back problems
oh my god i can’t believe i forgot ben simmons, he has probably done the most damage to the nba PR wise too as him sitting out all those games gave people the narrative that all NBA players hate the sport and the fans and are just in it for the money
He was ranked a top 10 NBA coach of all time on some pretty highly publicized list like 5 years ago.
It was bullshit then, but there’s no way he’d even be considered for that now.
Edit: Found it, top 15 all time according to………the NBA. https://www.nba.com/news/nba-75-15-greatest-coaches
They could’ve just googled him and got everything they needed from that
Was it actually his decision? I thought it was clear he got fired
You can’t fire me I quit.
Bucks sparing him the bad optics of being fired from a fourth org
Doc had a ton of leaks in that locker room. He probably didn’t like most of those players.
Let’s not all act like we always leave companies with smiles and handshakes. Sometimes it’s “fuck y’all, I’m out”
After playing the 76ers, Doc was asked about Joel Embid. He said “He is the best player I have ever coached”… while being the HC for the Bucks with Giannis on the team. Now, I am not going to argue who is a better player, but that is not what you want to hear from your HC lol.
That’s completely irrelevant to the point though.
The Bucks players trashed him to the media but he has to be respectful on the way out? I’m sixers fan and hate Doc but this makes the Bucks roster room look soft as hell.
And sometimes it’s like we boxed up your shit and security will escort you out.
This bodes well for him not getting some BS front office gig
Doc Rivers being an unprofessional bum?
Must be a day that ends in Y
You wouldn’t ask Pop to say goodbye.
Good thing he’s not a fraction of the coach pop is.
knock on wood but pops might genuinely die before saying good bye
The Bucks should be happy, he’s a terrible coach and has been since he left the Celtics and even then, that big 3 just couldn’t be denied.
Doc deserves to be fired. I don’t like that he is just reassigned upstairs. Fire employees when they do poorly.
I’m shocked the coach that all the players seemed to hate and want gone, didn’t say a tearful goodbye and hug them all before he left lol
He’s definitely to blame for being trash at his job, and the occasional passing the blame to anyone else but himself, it was definitely about 10 years past his time to retire…but let’s not pretend like they were a happy family and it would be expected for him to say a tearful goodbye.
Bobby Portis was staring deep in Doc’s soul, probably one of the reasons he left
Doc is really old. He isn’t coaching again in the NBA in all likelihood.
He got his money and destroyed an extremely promising franchise and players.
I remember Giannis publicly saying he would love to play for Doc 2 or 3 years ago. I wonder if he had a role in getting him to the Bucks. Rivers might be the worst coach I’ve ever seen.
I never forgave him for fucking the Clippers over
Doesn’t matter as long as he keeps making relationships with people higher up. He’ll keep getting jobs
this feels like an episode on the office
He told you all to look at his resume is that not enough?!
The only thing about this that surprises me is that he didn’t throw anyone under the bus as he did it
Speaking of buses, Bobby saying he was on Bus1 but is normally on Bus3 was the least surprising thing he said :)
People was blaming some of the last issues on Cam Thomas.. idk guys it seems like the love loss in the locker room was well before March with the way he rolled up out of there.
Another boneheaded team will sign him
What happened when he blew 3-1 lead after 3-1 lead? Did he wave goodbye to his players or just duck out the back door?
Is this what Ubuntu looks like
Seeing Bobby Portis without a headband is weird
In Doc’s defense, I’m pretty sure they all knew and probably didn’t want to hear shit else from him anyway
Doc googled Irish Goodbye
Magic fans your future head coach
They can read it on Google anyway
If Bobby wanted a goodbye should have just Googled it
Can someone tell me why Doc rivers ever had a job. I’ve never cared for who coaches are and what they bring to the team but for the longest time I’ve always thought Rivers specifically was bad luck for a team
Yeah but did you see his credentials?
grift complete
So like Michael Scott. Giannis probably knew like Jim Halpert did.
I don’t think Doc was the sole reason for them being ass but this is just unprofessional and doesn’t look good at all for him. Add it to the resume.
Why is doc not a good coach? Honest question. Bucks, clippers, Boston, Philly fans, what made doc a bad coach? Of course throwing your PG under the bus is just shit leadership, but what else? Are there X’s and O’s thing you’ve seen? Is it minutes?
Take a look at myles turner’s minutes
I didn’t see enough X’s and O’s that was the problem
Bobby: Where did you go, coach?
It doesn’t seem like the players were all that great to him the last season, why are they surprised by this?
Doc “Irish Goodbye” Rivers
he could simply google doc’s resume. simple as that.
Yeah that sounds like doc
Chandler Parsons is gorgeous
Guess they found out by Googling him
Thank you fanduel for letting us hear this conversation.
Bruh no one wants to say goodbye, Doc, Giannis, Bucks MGMT, lol
Doc doesn’t need to explain anything, his record speaks for itself.
Now that’s what I’d expect from a HoF coach with decades of success to do and not a coach whose entire success stems from 1 ring 20 years ago.
Bring mike malone
That’s actually nuts
Doc is such a fucking weirdo.
I don’t care what business you’re in, to just leave without saying jack shit to anyone after you’ve been their boss for 3 years is absolute android behavior.
whys it look like bobby portis asked for fronthand
Doc Rivers seems to be for the most part a piece of shit.
He’s an awful coach and a terrible leader but he’s far from a piece of shit lol
Depends who you ask