Ex-Celtics coach Doc Rivers says he loathes seeing his former players feuding.
“As the years have gone on, things have been fractured,” Rivers told reporters at the annual ABCD Hoop Dreams charity event hosted at TD Garden Tuesday night. “I hate it. I hate seeing it.”
Rivers — who spent nine seasons, including an NBA championship run, coaching in Boston — said the 2008 title squad was “as close of a group as [he] could ever coach.” The fruitful dynamic, which Rivers acknowledges was never perfect, has since gone to pieces. After shooting guard Ray Allen left the Celtics for the Miami Heat in 2012, he was ostracized by some of his former teammates — namely Kevin Garnett and Rajon Rondo.