MILWAUKEE — When Doc Rivers flew into Dallas this week, he was planning to spend extra time with his daughter and son-in-law before he was scheduled to broadcast an ESPN game between the Mavericks and Phoenix Suns on Wednesday night.
Instead, when he checked his phone Tuesday afternoon, he had what he called «a lot of urgent messages» following the news that the Milwaukee Bucks had fired first-year coach Adrian Griffin.
To that point, Rivers said he was comfortable with his time away from coaching after being fired this past summer following three seasons as coach for the Philadelphia 76ers.
He said he had been contacted several times about a coach vacancy in the time since, but he hadn't taken the call and wouldn't in the future — unless it was the right job.