Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Doc Rivers was not expecting guests one day this summer when members of his staff turned up uninvited at his house with a direct demand of the Philadelphia 76ers coach: Tyrese Maxey needed an intervention.
It was true. Maxey needed help getting out of the gym. So a pair of coaches tried to persuade Rivers to talk Maxey into slowing down.
The third-year guard found a court, a pick-up game, anywhere with a basketball in his travels this summer and hooped about every day from dawn through lunch through late nights in a never-ending chase at professional perfection.
Philadelphia 76ers' Tyrese Maxey poses for a photograph during media day at the NBA basketball team's practice facility, Monday, Sept.