By Johnny Askounis/ info@eurohoops.net
With no NBA head-coaching gigs in sight, Doc Rivers is set to remain sidelined at the top of the 2022-23 Regular Season, for the first time in over twenty years.
Rivers, 61, was recently released by the Philadelphia 76ers. However, he looks content with the current situation.
“I don’t know what I’m gonna do,” he said in a brief conversation with TMZ, “I’m just gonna enjoy life.”
Apparently, rushing his way back to the league is not on the list of priorities for Rivers.
The 2008 NBA champion with the Boston Celtics and 2000 NBA Coach of the Year with the Orlando Magic guided the Sixers to the Eastern Conference Semifinals for three years in a row. The 174 wins in 251 games between the Regular Season and Playoffs were not enough for a fourth attempt for the first championship in team history since 1983. The task now belongs to his successor Nick Nurse.
His coaching career includes an opening stint with the Magic with the fifth campaign cut short in 2003-04. Bouncing back with the Celtics to start the following 2004-05 Regular Season, his efforts went from a first-round exit in the 2005 Playoffs and missing the postseason in 2006 and 2007 to being crowned NBA champion in 2008. Without pausing, he jumped from Boston to the Los Angeles Clippers in 2013-14 and from there to the 76ers in 2020-21. Sidelined at the beginning of the Regular Season will be a first.
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