“I bought a Fitbit and it has a sleep monitor,” he said, raising his left wrist to show his new activity tracker. “I’m trying stuff, and it’s driving me nuts.”
Rivers, who is entering his 20th season coaching in the NBA, understands sleepless nights are hardly unique among his peers in a high-stress, high-visibility profession. Yet it couldn’t have helped to know that, unlike the star-driven teams he inherited after arriving in Los Angeles in 2013, the roster he’s opening camp with Monday is largely an unknown quantity.
Rivers predicted it will take longer than the four weeks allotted for the preseason to do so, and for good reason.