An entire coaching tenure for one of the most successful teams in the NBA miraculously started and finished without ever crossing paths with the Nuggets.
When the Bucks visited Denver on Monday night for the first of two regularly scheduled matchups this season, they were feeling their way around the proverbial dark. Doc Rivers was out from behind the scorer’s table, where he spent the first half of this season calling games for ESPN, and back on the sideline after an unexpectedly brief hiatus from coaching.
“It’s gonna take a minute,” he said before the game, a hard-fought 113-107 Nuggets win.