Doc Rivers named NBA All-Star coach despite being with Bucks for three games: ‘Ridiculously bad’
NY Post
Doc Rivers is back coaching in the NBA, but there’s one job he’s not interested in.
Typically, the head coaches of the teams with the top records in each conference are selected to coach the All-Star Game.
With a win on Saturday night, the Milwaukee Bucks improved to 33-16 on the season, giving them the second-best record in the Eastern Conference on Feb. 4, which is the cutoff the league uses to pick the coaches.
While the Boston Celtics are the No. 1 seed, at 37-12, head coach Joe Mazzulla coached in the game last year and is therefore ineligible to coach again this season.
That leaves Rivers, who has coached just three games with the Bucks after replacing Adrian Griffin, who went 30-13 before being fired, and Griffin’s replacement, Joe Prunty, who went 2-1 as the interim head coach.
“That is ridiculously bad,’’ Rivers said of getting the All-Star spot after just one win. “Adrian’s going to get some money, that’s for sure. And a ring. It’s one of these quirky things. I think there should be a rule somehow that someone else does it other than me.”
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