Doc Rivers has fairly a couple of critics across the league and you may safely depend 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 group beating the Clippers within the first spherical of the 2017 playoffs, which turned out to be the group’s last 12 months collectively.
Barnes then replied, “Nah Doc broke that shit up when he paid his son that cash. He misplaced the group 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 deal with the group 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 final supervisor and meant had the ultimate say on all basketball-related issues. It’s a title he held whereas additionally teaching the group.
It’s additionally price taking into account that NBA salaries again then have been nowhere close to what they’re now. Which means Austin Rivers’ $10 million annual wage was a considerably larger portion of the group’s cap than it might be right this moment.
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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