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Good, this dumb front office would deserve him walking for not getting this deal done, tbh.... still don't think he will but the chances are a lot higher now....
Doc Rivers informed the Los Angeles Clippers that he is no longer a candidate for the franchise's coaching job and will use the weekend to decide his coaching future with the Boston Celtics, league sources told Yahoo! Sports. After further talks on compensation between the Celtics and Clippers failed to produce an agreement on Friday afternoon, Celtics general manager Danny Ainge and Rivers' frustration with the negotiations caused both to leave the process, league sources said. ?Doc Rivers is expected to make a decision about his future with the Celtics by Monday. (USA Today Sports)
Rivers had his agent tell the Clippers of his decison, sources said.
Ainge had wanted a first-round draft pick from the Clippers to let Rivers out of his contract, but the Clippers offered only a future second-round pick, league sources told Yahoo! Sports. Within the NBA, there had been growing doubt that owner Donald Sterling wanted to pay the five-year, $35 million contract he had negotiated with Rivers, nor give up any first-round picks in the deal.
Free-agent star Chris Paul pushed the Clippers to hire Rivers as coach, but will have to settle for Lionel Hollins, Brian Shaw or Byron Scott if he plans to re-sign with Los Angeles in July. Paul is unhappy with the fallout over the failed deal, sources told Yahoo! Sports on Friday night.
Rivers plan to have a decision on Monday. Rivers is choosing between staying with Boston for his 10th season or leaving for television. If Rivers does leave the job, the Celtics will still require compensation before he can accept a job elsewhere in the NBA.
The Celtics were using Rivers as asset to help in the rebuilding of the franchise, and his desire to coach for a championship contender ultimately led them to work together on the Clippers' job.
Rivers has three years and $21 million left on his contract. He won the 2008 NBA le as coach of the Celtics, and reached the NBA Finals before losing to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2010.Clippers
Good, this dumb front office would deserve him walking for not getting this deal done, tbh.... still don't think he will but the chances are a lot higher now....
clippernation has a source bro......... this guy
dumb clippernation quoting this fat as reason CP3 is staying.
He's unhappy because is about to hit the fan on his "media darling" image.
i guess that rumor about Cliff Paul only wanting niggra coaches is true then. pretty sad.
fortunately for Clipper Nation he has the Heat to fall back on.
Not only did the deal not go through, but Sterling has publicly Blamed Paul for Del Negro being fired.
Before Media is done with this it will be like it never happened and Rivers will go back to Boston with nary a mark on him.
The s.
All the other candidates are black, too
That leaves Rivers in an interesting spot.It’s well known he has no desire to coach a rebuilding team, as he would be doing if he returns to the Celtics, but sources close to him maintain that he still wants to coach in the NBA.
Because of the non-compete clause in his contract, Rivers can’t coach anywhere but Boston for the next three seasons unless the Celtics let him out of his contract, which they won’t do unless they receive ample compensation.
League sources have said there’s a chance Rivers could return to the broadcast booth, even if his salary were much smaller, because it would be awkward for him to return as the Celtics coach.
The Celtics organization has maintained ever since the season ended — and even through these trade talks — that it wants Rivers to return. The Celtics consider him a prized asset and a figure of stability as they enter a rebuilding stage.
If Rivers does return, next season would be his 10th as Boston coach. With the NBA draft less than a week away (Thursday), there is a sense of urgency for the Celtics to settle this matter.
As for why things have stalled, league sources said the Clippers are just too wary of giving up assets, an at ude that stems from notoriously eccentric and frugal owner Donald Sterling.
One of the more puzzling aspects of the situation is that the Clippers were willing to offer assets that the Celtics would have accepted in a deal that turned out to be against league rules, but now the Clippers won’t offer those same assets in a deal that would be legal.
In the initial proposal, the Celtics had agreed to allow Rivers out of his contract in exchange for a first-round pick, and then it would trade Garnett to the Clippers for rising center DeAndre Jordan and an additional first-round pick.
Even though the teams were treating the moves as separate transactions, the league didn’t see it that way. Under NBA rules, a coach can’t be traded for a player, and there cannot be side deals, so the league told the teams it would block such a deal.
Once that happened, the teams had to go back to the drawing board — and that’s when the Clippers moved their focus solely to Rivers, although there was the possibility that Garnett and even Paul Pierce could join him in Los Angeles at some point.
Yet instead of offering a pick in the first round, the Clippers offered one in the second.
“They obviously got cold feet and they have just wasted everyone’s time,’’ a league source said. “Guess they will forever be the Clippers.’’
League sources have said the Clippers’ intentions were to never actually complete a deal — and thus part with assets and pay an expensive coach — but only give the appearance of trying to make one work to appease guard Chris Paul, who wants Rivers to coach the Clippers.
It's in every damn thread. "I'm too sexy..."
$35 mil is a lot of money for a black coach, tbh.
Sterling is not a billionaire because he's dumb, imho.
Mark Heisler @MarkHeisler about 12 minutes ago
#Clippers trying to re-start talks--but #Celtics who'd still take a No. 1 aren't problem. If Doc really pulled out, as reported, it's over.
The rehabilitation of Rivers in Boston is underway. They waited till Friday afternoon to commence so everybody is distracted by weekend wiener roasts and mowing the wife's lawn. By Monday afternoon, it will be deemed "a good thing" by Media and a healthy amount of articles will be dispersed claiming that the Celtics are actual 2014 NBA le contenders.
Oh, yeah.
God Clippers...could have had KG and Pierce, but they went with their first round pick instead. Being a fan of that franchise must be tough....
Clipper Fans say the darnedest things.
I thought all these were cancelled by stern already? Apparently you cant trade coaches in a deal.
^They're saving face and symbolically spitting in the face of Stern. & Media is carrying their water for them.
A Lakerfan said that.Clipper Fans say the darnedest things.
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