The ‘Doc Rivers is a fine coach, but Doc Rivers is also a terrible general manager’-summation has been out there for so long, mostly because it is provable, that we were almost certain to hear some backlash at some point. You just knew that some contrarian would eventually come out to defend Rivers’ moves as head personnel chief of the Los Angeles Clippers, a position he took over in the summer of 2013, when Donald Sterling was still the owner of the team.
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We just didn’t know, though we probably should have, that the contrarian backlash would come from Rivers himself.