Dash Posted June 30, 2010 Report Share Posted June 30, 2010 (edited) In other news, Doc Rivers has retired #justamatteroftime Link If true then it might have influenced Pierce's decision to opt out. Edited June 30, 2010 by Dash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdog17k Posted June 30, 2010 Report Share Posted June 30, 2010 Time to build around Rondo and Perk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingfish Posted June 30, 2010 Report Share Posted June 30, 2010 Doc is gone, Thib is gone, Allen maybe gone, Pierce maybe gone, Perk done for half a season potentially. Nice to see we beat them back into the lottery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dash Posted June 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2010 He is returning. Doc Rivers is not opting out. The Celtic coach will be returning to the club for at least the remaining season on his contract, a source close to Rivers indicated moments ago. The fact Rivers is staying on would seem to be an encouraging sign that the Celtics’ main players will also be back for another season. Rivers was seriously considering a sabbatical from coaching on the grounds that a break would allow him to spend time with his family after six years apart coaching the Celts. He had also gone through a trying year as the club dealt with injuries and moved toward its future in point guard Rajon Rondo. The Celtics’ key players have lobbied Rivers to stay, but it was thought he’d take the opportunity to leave if the team was about to go into a rebuilding phase. If he’s hanging around, it likely means he has at least a fair indication that they might be, as well. http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/sports/celtics/index.php/2010/06/30/source-rivers-staying/ Ah looks like Swish's source was wrong or he changed his mind last minute. Anyways good news for the Celtics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRT Spidey Posted June 30, 2010 Report Share Posted June 30, 2010 hes coming back, so is pierce and allen. then were beating every team in the east and going back to the finals the end. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Got Favors? Posted July 1, 2010 Report Share Posted July 1, 2010 The Boston Celtics may have one more opportunity to make one more run at a championship with most of their core intact, after Doc Rivers' decision Wednesday to return to the bench as the team's head coach next season. Rivers had been torn about coming back for the final year of his contract with the Celtics, wanting to spend more time with his children, including his youngest son, Austin, who is a blue-chip prospect entering his senior year of high school and is the subject of a fierce nationwide recruiting battle. Doc Rivers is in San Antonio this week to watch Austin play for the U.S. Under 18 team in the FIBA Americas Under 18 championship. "My kids were like, 'Dad, come on,'" Rivers said by phone. "'I wouldn't leave if I were you. You have to go for it one more time. You're too close.' So that's what I'm going to do. If we get there, we get there, and if we don't, at least we tried." Rivers, who won the 2000 NBA Coach of the Year award in Orlando, led the Celtics to the Finals this season, losing to the Lakers 83-79 in the Game 7 in Los Angeles. He has a 280-212 record in seven seasons in Boston, including this year's 50-32 mark. But many thought this was Rivers' best coaching job. The Celtics struggled through most of the regular season, as Paul Pierce missed games with nagging injuries, Ray Allen was the subject of trade rumors up to the trade deadline and Kevin Garnett worked his way back from knee surgery. But Rivers stuck with his core group, gradually increasing the responsibilities of point guard Rajon Rondo as Garnett and Pierce got healthy. He knew that the team could (and, it did) lose games down the stretch in the regular season by using Garnett and Pierce so much, but Rivers thought that Boston's only chance to win in the postseason would come if Garnett and Pierce were as close to normal as possible. And Rivers turned out to be right, as the Celtics defeated Miami and Dwyane Wade in the first round, Cleveland and LeBron James in the second round and Orlando and Dwight Howard in the Eastern Conference finals before dropping to Los Angeles in the Finals. "It took long enough just getting over losing Game 7," Rivers said. "You go back and forth. But I love coaching. I think everyone knows that. I would stay in coaching even if I had left" Boston. Rivers, who worked for TNT and ABC television after being fired by the Magic in 2004, would have immediately been courted by the television networks again if he had retired. But Rivers couldn't resist the pull of coaching. His agent, Lonnie Cooper, said that Rivers didn't get a new contract or extension from the Celtics and has just the one year remaining on his deal. In the end, Rivers was pushed back toward coaching by his wife, Kris, and his kids. "They said 'You're 48 years old. How can you stop doing something you love?,'" Rivers said. "And my wife said 'When you were doing television that year, you were unbearable at home. So go back.' It was funny; they almost had to get me to that point." Rivers said he was hopeful that the Celtics could re-sign Allen, an unrestricted free agent, and Pierce, who opted out of the final year of his deal on Tuesday in anticipation of free agency Thursday. Pierce walked away from $21 million that he would have been paid in order to get a new long-term deal before a likely lockout takes place after next season. The Boston Herald first reported the story of Rivers' return to the Celtics. Link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenIverson#1fan Posted July 1, 2010 Report Share Posted July 1, 2010 hes coming back, so is pierce and allen. then were beating every team in the east and going back to the finals the end.+1 Exactly. Then winninng the championship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun Tzu Posted July 1, 2010 Report Share Posted July 1, 2010 He replied @GaryBrotman Nah, just a joke. That's why I said #justamatteroftime. It was all a joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newman Posted July 1, 2010 Report Share Posted July 1, 2010 Insert some fresh blood into this team and they are still a contender. The draft picks may have done the trick already but I would still like to see a veteran big man signed to take Sheed's spot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dash Posted July 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2010 He replied It was all a joke. Well don't I feel retarded. -_- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdog17k Posted July 1, 2010 Report Share Posted July 1, 2010 ^ So he isn't coming back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingfish Posted July 1, 2010 Report Share Posted July 1, 2010 Its been all over ESPN by now, its not a joke Doc is comin back for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dash Posted July 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2010 He meant Doc retiring was a joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenIverson#1fan Posted July 2, 2010 Report Share Posted July 2, 2010 Jackson's back, Rivers' is back, Keep the rivalry going! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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