CelticsBlog · Apr 9, 2024
The Celtics wouldn’t be here if Doc Rivers was down for a rebuild in 2013
Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations, Brad Stevens, and Doc Rivers, head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks.On June 23, 2013, the Boston Celtics traded head coach Doc Rivers away to the Los Angeles Clippers. Rivers, now coaching the Milwaukee Bucks, reportedly didn’t want to be a part of Boston’s rebuild.
“The truth was this: I really didn’t want to go through a rebuild,” he told Adrian Wojnarowski in fall of 2013. “I’ve been through three – when I first got to Orlando, and then when Grant Hill went down again. And I had been through one in Boston. It’s easy to say, ‘Just do it,’ but for a coach, it’s brutal. Showing up, getting your ass kicked, it’s brutal.”