There was a point in Doc Rivers’ coaching career when he would have overreacted to the phone call he got from James Harden about a trip to Las Vegas in between the Sixers’ playoff matchups with Brooklyn and Boston.
But, not this version of Rivers. The 61-year-old coach encouraged Harden to go, according to Steve Bulpett of Heavy Sports.
“It’s funny,” Rivers said. “James called me before he went, and I was like, ‘So what? Do it.’ Dennis Rodman went to Vegas. They asked me about it, and I said, ‘We had three days off.