Doc Rivers

One-on-One Interview

One-on-One Interview

Two-on-One Interview

Two-on-One Interview

What I’ve learned in 20 seasons as an NBA head coach

I never thought I would coach more games than I played. Like ever. Not by a long shot. I told someone that I am so old that I didn’t even know that I have coached 20 seasons. It’s awesome. I didn’t know I was going to ever coach. And to coach 20 straight years, I love it today as much as I loved it my first year…

The Playbook: Doc Rivers’ Rules for Life

Doc Rivers is an American Professional Basketball coach. He is best known for being the Head Coach of the 2008 NBA Champions Boston Celtics and until last season for the Los Angeles Clippers. In a career spanning over two decades, he is well-respected as one of the most competent coaches in the game…

The Good, the Bad, and the Doc

Doc Rivers is the kind of guy who likes to say he saw things coming. On Tuesday night, after the injury-ravaged Milwaukee Bucks defeated the Indiana Pacers 115-92 in Game 5 of the first round of the NBA playoffs to stave off elimination, a reporter asked Rivers what he’d learned about…

Doc Rivers and the heartbreak of being an NBA head coach

The Boston Celtics will advance to the Eastern Conference finals; the Philadelphia 76ers are going home. Again. For Boston’s first-year coach Joe Mazzulla, the Celtics’ 112-88 blowout victory means the continuation of what has been an up-and-down postseason journey through the rough waters of being an NBA coach…

Ubuntu: A Way of Life for Creative Leaders

“FIRE DOC. FIRE Doc” It was Wednesday, April 18, 2007. 19,580 people were at TD Garden chanting, “Fire Doc. Fire Doc.” The Boston Celtics, a once-storied franchise, had a run of bad luck. They finished the season with one of the worst records in the NBA — a dismal 24-58. The crowd was talking about…

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