On June 23, 2013, the Boston Celtics traded head coach Doc Rivers away to the Los Angeles Clippers. Rivers, now coaching the Milwaukee Bucks, reportedly didn’t want to be a part of Boston’s rebuild.
“The truth was this: I really didn’t want to go through a rebuild,” he told Adrian Wojnarowski in fall of 2013. “I’ve been through three – when I first got to Orlando, and then when Grant Hill went down again. And I had been through one in Boston. It’s easy to say, ‘Just do it,’ but for a coach, it’s brutal.