Not enough fans hate Austin Rivers yet. He’s patient. It will come.
He went to Duke, the leading cause of hypertension in college basketball, because he’s so comfortable with contempt.
He drove high school crowds up all four walls when he played at Winter Park (Fla.), It bothered him so much that he won four consecutive state titles.
Now comes the final frontier: the NBA.
“It would be weird,” Rivers said, “if people weren’t cheering against you. It would be boring. You want them to say crazy, bad things. That’s the way it’s always been, but it’s not personal.