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• #Doc rivers teams coached tv#

I was at a high school game and I saw a play that I ran in the Eastern Conference finals against Cleveland and scored. I knew more how I wanted to be more than what I was doing. When I got the coach job with the Orlando Magic, I never coached, but I knew what I wanted to do. Just jump.’ I didn’t see myself that way, but others did. Every time I would do a Miami game, Pat Riley would say, ‘When are you going to jump into the fray? You know you’re going to coach. Truth be told, I never thought I was going to coach. I did that for like two or three weeks, and then the lockout ended. I was staying at a Days Inn in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I was driving a pickup truck they gave me where the window didn’t open. I sat on the bench with Mark Hughes and Brendan O’Connor in Grand Rapids. People don’t know that during the 1998-99 NBA lockout year, I went down and coached with the Continental Basketball Association.

#Doc rivers teams coached tv#

He thought the separation would be great because while doing TV I can go watch other systems. Take three years and get back into coaching and you are going to be a hell of a coach.’ He wanted me to have the separation. When I retired from playing, I had an assistant-coaching job offer and was doing TV. And Wayne Embry also wanted me to do well. There was a group of coaches - and Lenny Wilkens led the pack when I first started coaching - who really reached out to me and wanted me to do well. I didn’t know what the hell I was doing my first year. To me, that is the most important part of it.īefore moving to the sidelines, Doc Rivers played 13 seasons as a point guard in the NBA. They want to know if you know what you’re talking about. Me, Doc Rivers as a player, means nothing to a player when I am talking to them. It’s just a different way of thinking about it. They just gave you respect before, but you could lose it. It’s funny, I was at a coaching clinic and a guy said, ‘Well, that’s not good.’ I said, ‘No, that is good.’ Listen, you have to earn it either way. Twenty years ago, the title of ‘coach’ came with respect. They’re different than what they were 20 years ago. And to coach 20 straight years, I love it today as much as I loved it my first year. I told someone that I am so old that I didn’t even know that I have coached 20 seasons. I never thought I would coach more games than I played.