Clippers Coach Doc Rivers recounted his favorite Flip Saunders memory at practice Monday, a day after the Minnesota Timberwolves coach died. Saunders was 60.
"The year Flip was fired he basically became one of our assistants and traveled on the plane with us," Rivers said, recalling 2012, when he coached the Boston Celtics and Saunders, who'd been dismissed by the Washington Wizards three months earlier, joined Rivers' staff as an advisor at the start of the playoffs. "We had this running thing, Flip and I, that no matter where the city was, we'd walk back to the hotel from shoot around during the playoffs.