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...to the top of the NBA talk circuit last week. Kevin McHale, one of the franchise greats, chose last Tuesday to riff on Doc Riversâ idea of screening the new HBO documentary âMagic vs. Birdâ for his struggling team. âMaybe he should have shown them âRocky,â...
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WALTHAM - Of all the issues facing the Celtics [team stats] - and the list seems to grow daily - the team’s inability to defend its homecourt stands out most to coach Doc Rivers.
The Celtics have a worse record at the Garden (16-11) than on the road (20
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...doesn’t mind the late nights on Interstate 4. “It’s an easy, quick drive,” she said. “It’s a privilege, really.” That’s why Doc Rivers talks to them all as if they were in the next room. “I regret not being there any time they lose,” he said. “Austin missed...
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You might think Doc Rivers should walk gingerly through a rotation that includes such rare and fine gallery pieces as Paul Pierce [stats], Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Rasheed Wallace.
But to Rivers’ way of thinking, to cook a championship omelet, one
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Jeremiah Rivers sat down at his locker recently and stared at a page from a preseason basketball publication.
It was a list of transfers expected to make an impact this season.
Rivers, who played two seasons at Georgetown and was
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Indianapolis Star
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ORLANDO, Fla. - Doc Rivers sounded like a beekeeper with a truckload of flowers last night.
It doesn’t take much to draw a crowd with the right bait, and that’s precisely why the Celtics [team stats] coach sounded so secure. Rasheed Wallace had just
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Doc Rivers may get a second chance to coach Grant Hill. The last time it didn't turn out so well.
Rivers, now coach of the Boston Celtics, and Hill, an unrestricted free agent who played last season for the Phoenix Suns, will meet Sunday in Orlando to
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(Orlando, FL)—June 25, 2009 – NBA Celtics Coach Doc Rivers is partnering with leading destination club Ultimate Escapes to raise money for Shepherd’s Hope, a non-profit organization of volunteers that provides access to health care for the uninsured.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - People have pretty much stopped questioning Doc Rivers about the fact his family still lives down here. Those voices got quiet right around the time the Celtics [team stats] won the 2008 NBA championship.
“Funny how that works,” Rivers
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Sometimes, intangibles feel very, um, tangible.
Call it swagger. Call it experience, call it ubuntu, call it championship pride, call it what you will. But after five games against Orlando, it's clear that the Boston Celtics have an edge over the Magic
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ORLANDO, Fla. - In the aftermath of kidney surgery and dialysis, the uncle had no means to care for the teenager or help financially. The teenager's mother was in Georgia.
Food? A comfortable place to sleep and do homework other than the porch because
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...-- Back when he was young and everyone still called him Glenn, Doc Rivers’ face would flush when he got mad. “Red as a beet,” is how his uncle, Jim Brewer, described the phenomenon that took place in the back seat of his family car. Brewer’s father -- known...
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..."Doc" Rivers, who was booed Thursday night during his introduction at the United Center, is able to find some humor in the circumstance. The Boston Celtics [team stats] coach was an All-State high school player at Proviso East in Maywood before starring at...
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CHICAGO - Long before Derrick Rose became a rookie sensation, the nationally acclaimed documentary "Hoop Dreams," and Michael Jordan first starred in a Bulls uniform, Chicago had a love affair with basketball.
Abe Saperstein founded the Harlem
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...offense, hit its free throws. His team won 19 straight games. His team went 15-7 without the injured Kevin Garnett. And yet, Doc Rivers finished behind nine other men for the NBA's top coaching honor, including the likes of Rick Adelman in Houston, Stan Van...
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At some point on Monday, after breakfast but before a nerve-shattering 118-115 playoff victory, Doc Rivers must have heard the news that he didn't win the 2009 NBA Coach of the Year honor.
Heard, in fact, that he finished behind nine other coaches for
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BOSTON
The Celtics obviously missed Kevin Garnett during their Game 1 loss to the Bulls yesterday, but coach Doc Rivers has tired of talking about his injured forward.
“Kevin is not playing in these playoffs,” Rivers said. “I’m not answering Kevin
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Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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There goes the repeat
Sweet jesus this is horrible news..........
Say it aint so
Nice season while it lasted. See you next year guys.
Are you kidding me? They've been tugging us along this whole time about Garnett's knee. First
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The fact Kevin Garnett and his right knee are rested does nothing to make things more certain for Doc Rivers entering the playoffs.
Garnett could look fine in front of Rivers and his staff when the Celtics practice today in Waltham, but then there's
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BOSTON Celtics coach Doc Rivers keeps reminding everyone that he’s not a real doctor, that Doc is only a nickname, but he has certainly spent a lot of time this season discussing injuries.
Before last night’s game against New Jersey, Rivers said Kevin
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A new NBA rule arrived too late to help the Celtics. The NBA Board of Governors voted Thursday to approve a rule change regarding "too many players on the court," which took effect last night. Under the rule, when such a violation is called, a
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Boston Globe
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...to handling situations like this. The only person in this scenario who has had a pattern of behavior that is unprofessional is Doc Rivers, not Billy Kennedy." The referees noted that Rivers had been fined this season for his public complaints about the officiating,...
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...March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Three nights ago, Boston Celtics Coach Doc Rivers complained to all who cared to listen that NBA referee Bill Kennedy "stared and goaded" him into an emotional on-court tirade that resulted in his second technical foul and ejection...
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BOSTON
Ray Allen and Leon Powe joined Kevin Garnett, Brian Scalabrine and Tony Allen on the sideline with injuries last night against Miami, but Celtics coach Doc Rivers did his best to stay positive.
“The bottom line is,” Rivers said, “they’re not
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Loyola is the last Chicago-area school to win the men's NCAA tournament, way back in 1963. Northwestern never has participated, after coming close to being seriously considered this season. The Wildcats did receive an NIT bid and lost to Tulsa
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...- Kevin Garnett will play this weekend if he is deemed healthy enough to do so, but Doc Rivers has trepidations. The Celtics [team stats] forward has been out nearly four weeks with a strained right knee, and Rivers is concerned about just throwing him back...
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BOSTON
Kevin Garnett missed his seventh consecutive game with a strained muscle in back of his right knee and Celtics coach Doc Rivers said he expected the star forward to be sidelined for at least another week.
“He’s getting closer, so you can see
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WALTHAM - Doc Rivers is aware he’s left himself wide open for a malpractice suit. Keeping Paul Pierce [stats] on the floor too long hardly is exercising reasonable care.
“That was a bad job by me,” Rivers said the day after exposing Pierce to all but 18
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Sources confirmed yesterday that Stephon Marbury is headed to the Celtics, not that there has been any doubt. And though Doc Rivers still can't talk about him, he did admit he's gotten calls from coaches who think the Celts are crazy to bring the guard
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The Celtics say their superstar forward’s right knee has been a cause of concern for the last two weeks now, but it wasn’t until last night that they had to officially comment on it. After Kevin Garnett was forced to leave the game (a loss to the Jazz
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SLAM Online
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...changes in the NBA since then. So if anyone can see the wisdom of the Celtics [team stats] riding out the storm with Doc Rivers, it is Sloan. “I definitely think they made the right move in keeping Doc,” he said. “They went through some rough times, but there...
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Good ole Mark Cuban. Are there no limits to his enthusiasm? Sometimes he gets carried away — just like he did late in the 3rd quarter of Thursday night’s game when Celtics coach Doc Rivers was ejected following a stream of fouls called on Kevin Garnett.
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A certain kind of satisfaction is priceless.
Just ask Celtics [team stats] coach Doc Rivers, who was fined $15,000 yesterday for running after the officiating crew in the seconds following Thursday’s 110-109 loss to the Lakers.
“My wife asked, ‘Did you
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...certain kind of satisfaction is priceless. Just ask Celtics [team stats] coach Doc Rivers, who was fined $15,000 yesterday for running after the officiating crew in the seconds following Thursday’s 110-109 loss to the Lakers. “My wife asked, ‘Did you feel...
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"She said make sure that doesn’t hurt me on Valentine’s Day," Rivers said Sunday before Boston’s game against San Antonio.
The NBA fined Rivers $15,000 for his comments following the Boston Celtics’ 110-109 overtime loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on
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CLEVELAND — The losses keep on coming for the Boston Celtics with regard to the Lakers this season.
Celtics coach Doc Rivers was fined $15,000 by the NBA for verbal abuse of the officials after Boston lost to the Lakers on Thursday night. Rivers
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It's hard to imagine a team becoming more difficult to defend after losing an interior scorer of Andrew Bynum's caliber, but Boston coach Doc Rivers insists the Lakers' two best scorers are more dangerous now than they were before their young center
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(NECN) - The Celtics lost to the Los Angeles Lakers 110-109 in overtime, after Ray Allen's buzzer beater fell short. But it was poor play that allowed this game to reach the extra period in the first place, according to head coach Doc Rivers.
"I didn't
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BOSTON (AP) ―
Kevin Garnett missed Sunday's game against the Minnesota Timberwolves with a high fever, and Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers said the All-Star forward will probably miss Tuesday night's game against the Philadelphia 76ers as well.
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Coach Doc Rivers had a 273-312 career record before last season, when he led the retooled Celtics to the NBA championship.
Ian Thomsen will periodically answer questions from SI.com users in his mailbag.
Boston's Doc Rivers, New Orleans' Byron Scott
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Coach Doc Rivers had a 273-312 career record before last season, when he led the retooled Celtics to the NBA championship.
Ian Thomsen will periodically answer questions from SI.com users in his mailbag.
Boston's Doc Rivers, New Orleans' Byron Scott
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what’s more disappointing is that mo williams gets snubbed. the cavs had the best record in the entire league before last night and only one all-star.
its half a game, its not like they’re running away with the league
The Starting 5?!?!?
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BOSTON
Doc Rivers admitted that Brian Scalabrine probably shouldn’t have practiced Tuesday when he suffered his second concussion in three days, but the Celtics coach isn’t ready to automatically bench players with concussions for a set amount of time.
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Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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Doc Rivers, though, is trying to remain realistic: “There have been four All-Stars from one team on seven occasions, the last by the Pistons in 2006. The Celtics had four in 1953, 1962, and 1975, but in each case, the fourth player was an injury
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TORONTO - The Celtics [team stats] have lost four straight games and seven of their last nine, yet still Doc Rivers was able to find a silver lining. And it’s not as if he was being blinded by the clouds and snow that fell as the team departed
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Boston Herald
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As you know, the Boston Celtics have been playing pretty terribly of late. It’s a testament to how truly amazing their early-season run was that after absorbing their third consecutive defeat last night (at home to the Rockets), they now only have
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BOSTON
The Celtics’ 17-game winning streak is even more amazing when you consider that just two years they lost a franchise-record 18 in a row.
No other NBA team has compiled winning and losing streaks that long so close to each other.
The 18-game
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Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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…that Doc Rivers did something like this with Tom Thibodeau? I don’t know if that was an official position or if he was just a generalized assistant.
Tom Thibodeau is the man behind the great Celtics D. He’s their defensive coordinator. Think Doc
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As was reported by the New York Times on Monday, they're all represented by Lonnie Cooper and his Atlanta-based Career Sports and Entertainment… Oh, and they're no longer in consideration for the NBA Coach of the Year Award.
But that brings us to an
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Doc Rivers was named by the NBA as Eastern Conference Coach of the Month yesterday. Added to the fact he won it the last two months of the 2007-08 season, Rivers became just the third coach since the award’s 1981-82 inception to win it three times in a
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