Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers is really going through it right now. To be fair, he knew what he was getting into. Taking over a team with NBA Championship aspirations is not easy, and then going 3-7 in one’s first ten games with them is only going to make the proverbial microscope focus even closer on what is going wrong.
To be frank, Rivers has not exactly helped his own case. From criticizing his own players for being “already in Cabo” after the Bucks’ frustrating loss to the Memphis Grizzlies to him admitting he questioned the motives of ownership when they offered him the job, Rivers’ has had a bad week of publicity.
Milwaukee Bucks Head Coach Doc Rivers Claims He Tried to Tell Kawhi Leonard that Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Would Be Great
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder is averaging 31.1 points per game and leads the NBA in steals (2.2 per game). He made his second All-Star Team this year after finishing fifth in MVP voting last season and being named to the All NBA First Team.
In other words, he is a bonified star. He is certainly one of the cornerstones of the Thunder franchise right now, but he was not originally drafted by them. Rivers’ Los Angeles Clippers were the team to do that in the first round of the 2018 NBA Draft.
SGA only lasted one year in Los Angeles, though, because Clippers’ star Kawhi Leonard wanted to team up with Paul George. Los Angeles shipped SGA off to Oklahoma City as part of the trade.
Recently, Rivers said he tried to talk Leonard out of teaming up with George and being patient with SGA:
“I even brought it up to Kawhi: ‘Are you sure? I think Shai’s going to be an amazing player. It may take a year or two, but I think you’re underestimating how good Shai’s going to be.'”
Needless to say, people do not believe this conversation took place.
Social Media Brutally Rips Doc Rivers Over His Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Story
The parodies of the story got quite wild:
Doc Rivers says he warned the Jedi about Emperor Palpatine:
“I told Anakin, ya know, something’s off about that guy. Nobody gains that much power in the Galactic Senate that fast without something shady going on. I just had a feeling he was the Sith Lord”
(per @sixersgeo) pic.twitter.com/MmgT9MDUHn
— Geo (@sixersgeo) February 21, 2024
Doc Rivers reveals that he tried to warn Jesus that Judas was going to betray him.
“I told him ‘Ya know, I’ve got a bad feeling about this Judas guy. I think he might be working with Pontius Pilate.’ Obviously, he didn’t listen and we know how that turned out. What can you do?” pic.twitter.com/yCb2ZO3xAu
— 🌟 (@terqfor3) February 21, 2024
Doc Rivers reveals that he warned Emperor Constantine XI about the fall of Constantinople:
“I told him, ya know those [Ottomans] have an army that significantly outnumbers us, and a strong 1st option in Sultan Mehmed II… I just knew it was going to happen”
(per @sixersgeo) pic.twitter.com/KF8uJEYhZI
— Geo (@sixersgeo) February 21, 2024
Doc Rivers reveals that he tried to warn Mufasa about Scar’s plot to kill him and Simba.
“I told him, ‘This guy wants you dead,’ but he thought I was crazy. He just couldn’t believe his own brother would actually try to kill him.”
(per @EmbiidPlzWin) pic.twitter.com/NMM2GeY2Ls
— 🦈🐋 (@EmbiidPlzWin) February 21, 2024
Doc Rivers reveals he predicted the Big Bang:
“All of these atoms vibrating in a highly compressed primordial state.. I just knew something was gonna happen. As soon as I saw the immediate increase in density and temperature, I knew things would rapidly expand”
per @sixersgeo pic.twitter.com/WWk4DVTLNg
— Geo (@sixersgeo) February 21, 2024
Doc Rivers reveals that he tried to warn DEA agent Hank Schrader that his brother-in-law Walter White was Heisenberg.
“I told him, ‘He’s the guy you’re looking for. How else would the meth be that pure?’ He never thought that it would be a guy like Walt.'”
(per @EmbiidPlzWin) pic.twitter.com/0D0Y7v9IPr
— 🦈🐋 (@EmbiidPlzWin) February 21, 2024
Doc Rivers says he warned J. Robert Oppenheimer about the creation of the
Atomic Bomb:“I knew that was a bad idea. I told him, ya know, if this thing falls into the wrong hands- who knows what the consequences could be? It’s just too dangerous for mankind”
(per @sixersgeo) pic.twitter.com/4y8AJVIeTo
— Geo (@sixersgeo) February 21, 2024
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