Doc Rivers was saddened by the end of President Barack Obama’s eight-year run in the White House, and not only because Obama was the first African-American — and probably the biggest basketball fan — to occupy the Oval Office.
“Forget all the things that he did — what stands out to me with the president is his humility,” the Clippers coach said Thursday. “We talk about that a lot in the locker room. I think the only way you can be a great team and a great individual is you have to have a sense of humility about you.