Doc Rivers names NBA’s greatest player but has ‘no doubt’ LeBron James will be GOAT
Doc Rivers coached in the NBA for 24 years and played in 13 leagues, so he’s seen a lot of action and has since picked who he thinks is the greatest player of all time.
Basketball coach Doc Rivers reveals who he thinks is the greatest NBA star of all time amid the controversy surrounding LeBron James and Michael Jordan.
The 62-year-old, who spent 13 years as a player and 24 years as an NBA coach, addressed the issue during an interview with Kevin Garnett on Showtime Basketball. Rivers paid tribute to both players, saying, “I hate the GOAT debate. I’m a Michael [Jordan] guy.
He added: “But that doesn’t mean anything bad about LeBron (James). “Bron is going to have the best career ever.” Rivers witnessed firsthand the heroics of James and Jordan, who together won 10 NBA championships, 10 Finals MVPs, nine regular season MVPs and 33 All-Star appearances. .
They remain two of the most respected figures of their time. Rivers has played against Jordan and coached against James for years. Rivers acknowledged that James will have an unparalleled career, saying, “There’s no question he’s going to have a GOAT career, but to me, Mike is the only player. But that doesn’t mean LeBron is bad.
“It seems that if you say one thing, you mean something else. Both are great. “It’s a good discussion, but I don’t like people to think that doing something like that is putting one or the other down.” Rivers last appeared as an NBA coach during the Philadelphia 76ers’ 2023 playoff campaign, but was fired shortly after the Celtics lost Game 7 to Boston in the Eastern Conference semifinals. )
Rivers’ three years in Philadelphia were somewhat of a disappointment as he failed to lead the Sixers to the conference finals.
He also had to deal with the Ben Simmons situation, with the Aussie wanting to leave the team and citing mental health issues preventing him from playing for the rest of the season. Reflecting on his difficult time with the Sixers, Rivers said he plans to take some time off before making another decision about his future in the game.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do,” Rivers said in a brief interview with TMZ last July. “I enjoy life.” The last 10 years of Rivers’ coaching career have been rough. After a successful career with the Celtics, where he won a championship in 2008, he failed to reach the NBA Finals with the powerful Los Angeles Clippers, where they lost several seed leaders. \’
Rivers said he sometimes looks back on that period of his life over the past decade and regrets his decision to leave the California Celtics. “I regret it every day,” Rivers told reporters in December. “It was the right move for me at the time: nine years in one place. We were going to rebuild. I see her all the time. “If I had stayed still, my life would have been much smoother. … You don’t look back and I don’t either, but sometimes I regret it. He added: “It was probably the best period of my sporting life. What has always been here will never be lost to me and many involved.
