Doc Rivers has fairly a number of critics across the league and you may safely rely Matt Barnes amongst them.
We all know this for positive due to a current remark Matt Barnes made on Instagram.
This all began when Joe Johnson commented on a publish which posed the query, “Why didn’t Lob Metropolis win a championship?”
“Utah Jazz broke that shit up,” Johson mentioned, referring to his Jazz crew beating the Clippers within the first spherical of the 2017 playoffs, which turned out to be the crew’s closing 12 months collectively.
Barnes then replied, “Nah Doc broke that shit up when he paid his son that cash. He misplaced the crew after that.”
Austin Rivers grew to become the primary NBA participant to be coached by their father when he was traded to the Clippers in January 2015. Rivers would later signal a brand new three-year take care of the crew price $35.5 million.
The signing got here simply two weeks after the Clippers had promoted Doc to president of basketball operations, which made him much more senior that the overall supervisor and meant had the ultimate say on all basketball-related issues. It’s a title he held whereas additionally teaching the crew.
It’s additionally price taking into account that NBA salaries again then have been nowhere close to what they’re now. Meaning Austin Rivers’ $10 million annual wage was a considerably greater portion of the crew’s cap than it might be at this time.
The earlier season, he had averaged 8.9 factors, 1.9 rebounds and 1.5 assists on 43.8 p.c capturing.
No marvel Matt Barnes was scratching his head when all this went down.
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