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If anyone can coax the best out of Simmons and Embiid, it's Doc Rivers

Doc Rivers didn’t bring the ultimate success to the Los Angeles Clippers, but he at least stopped them from being the ultimate clown show.

The 76ers looked like a different type of clown show not too long ago, which means Rivers, who reportedly agreed to a five-year deal to replace Brett Brown as Philadelphia’s head coach, will only have to corral the franchise’s two young studs — a task that could make turning Donald Sterling’s outfit into a respectable one minute in comparison.

Seeing the tantalizing talents of Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons was apparently too much for Rivers to sit at a TV studio for a year to gather himself and wait on a better job.