True, the coach should hold players accountable. But then these are supposed to be professional athletes who want to win. They shouldn’t need to be fined to show up on time.

I’m gonna go the other way on this. Doc has done plenty wrong no doubt, but I think it’s embarrassing that grown men (the players) who are supposedly professionals need threats of fine, penalties to act like grown-up professionals.

Get your asses to the plane on time you dummies.

If the star player can’t hold himself accountable, what do you expect?

what do you expect?

I’d expect Giannis to be a professional and respect his colleagues and the many workers involved enough to show up on time.

An adult shouldn’t need a threat of a fine to be respectful of everyone else’s time.

Not to interrupt people dunking on Doc Rivers, but this is dumb. Coaches haven’t been able to hold star players accountable for a long time now. Because a star player is more important to a team than a coach.

Milwaukee is not some free agent destination. Once Giannis leaves it will probably be decades before they get a player of his caliber again. Ownership would always side with Giannis over whoever the coach is.

Hell, it’s not even a Milwaukee or even a strictly NBA issue.

Real Madrid is one of the most recognizable franchises in all of sports. They just fired their Head Coach and club legend after publicly ignoring him and walking to the locker room after he asked them to line up and show respect to Barcelona after a loss. Then they hired a new coach, had a fight in the locker room where one of the players got knocked out, and had to leave in a wheelchair. And none of the players even got suspended a single game.

Players these days make way too much money and have way more power than coaches do. That’s simply modern sports.

Bro showing up on time is the bare minimum. These are grown ass men, professional athletes even. They need a coach so they can actually show up on time? Get the fuck outta here

It’s the NBA, coaches have almost no power over the star players.

Doc rivers was the coach, what do you expect? But the FO is making moves now with bringing in a coach that preaches culture. They were firing doc, but he retired to dodge that embarrassment

It showed in the court, there was a lot of selfish play allowed on offense which translated to atrocious defense effort.

Doc truly did nothing as a coach.

The perception of him and Booker has completely flipped since that finals it’s pretty hilarious

There’s been wildly bad vibes around him for last few years imo. He’s not the first player to demand a trade but the constant denying of it is so obnoxious. Say what you want about AD, Harden, etc. but at least they were up front about it.

It all seems like a poorly designed mission to not come across as that dude but it comes across worse.

Success, power and fame can do that to the best of us

Same with Kawhi, he was always the humble kid and when he became a superstar you know the rest

Not saying these guys are villains but yes, this can happen to anyone

Easy for us to look at from the outside and say we’d never do that lol

This is the same kid whose mind was blown that they do his laundry and it really went downhill from there.

Since he won

fr he was so likable and funny just a few years ago

Pretty much happens with any human who you shower with money. There are exceptions to be sure, but it likely happens with a vast majority of people who you put in that position.

I thought he was corny and huffing his own farts for a while now honestly

he was requesting getting his parents jobs from teams looking to draft him, and got all his brothers on teams when they absolutely shouldnt be.

I don’t think Giannis respected Doc. The issue is where can Giannis go and that won’t fly. Only team I can think of is Miami.

It’s VERY hard to have empathy over having to travel for work for the king’s ransom they make. I travel a LOT for work. 2-3 flights a week. Ive been in very serious relationships where we’ve had to decide that starting a family (just because we were in financial position to do so) would not be the best decision.

It’s like when Jrue’s wife took to the public to lament about uprooting their life over him being traded. If your financial freedom and ability to raise a big family in a comfy setting hinders on the father having to uproot the family at any given moment, maybe the best decision is to wait until closer to your VERY very early retirement to start reaping that lifestyle.

These are mostly guys with high school level education with access to generational wealth so it’s not surprising they take it personally when they can’t live out every aspect of their dreams.

Did you watch the Last Dance? MJ absolutely did what he wanted. MJ is just smart about how he handled it.

Very few players are Tim Duncan who actually just let Pop have full control. And thats only because Tim quite literally dgaf about anything. Its just his natural personality.

Bron, MJ, Magic etc are just smarter about their privileges and hold themselves accountable.

This sounds nice, but damn near in all industries and especially in sports, the best or most productive employees are given the leeway to do what they want. Popovich/Duncan situations aren’t the norm. It’s just usually the best guys hold themselves and others accountable so there really isn’t a need for anything else.

It’s also difficult to hold someone accountable when that person has more effectual power than you have.

You have never paid attention to any “legend” have you? lol Shaq also talked about missing practices etc..

Superstars get way more leeway

To be fair, I’d have a hard time caring after that pay day too lol

Bro admits he started showing up an hour late every time too, so he really was talking about himself 😂

Are you getting this from the written quote or the actual clip, because on the clip he clearly seems pretty frustrated about the lack of fines.

There’s only one doctor… Julius Erving.

we can all call him by his government name Glenn

Dif sports but belichick used to do the same with Brady

Some of us saw through the whole fake humble bullshit back in the day. Glad everyone else sees it too now.

Right? Literally your current teammate…

same as it ever was

Damn Pacers should’ve waited and traded for Myles just for the memes.

I stopped following the team the moment they hired doc

I’d be more worried that he missed over the half the season with a bunch of lower body injuries and he’s a big man who’s relied mostly on his physical attributes to succeed.

Or…

Teams can trade him for and cater to him. It’s not as though Giannis doesn’t bring it on the court. If he’s surrounded by a good enough team, this isn’t that big of an issue.

No one ever wanted to play in Milwaukee lol

26, 27, 29 mill next three seasons

for a declining 30 yar old center who averaged ¹²⁄₅

who the hell is taking that?

He’d let LeBron eat his cookies and Luka drink beer mid game

It became clear to me when he had the meltdown with the ladder a few years ago who he was becoming.

https://www.nba.com/news/bucks-giannis-antetokounmpo-explains-ladder-incident-after-loss-to-76ers

Why would turner want to stay on the post-Giannis bucks? With the atrocious season he had it could be a good buy low opportunity

Maybe he’s tired of the entire team waiting an hour or more for Giannis when they just want to get to their hotels. It’s extremely inconsiderate to the whole team and staffers. It’d make me not like him either. I hate when people are late.