WEBVTT - The BroadCast | Reaction Pod! Doc Rivers is the Sixers' New Head Coach 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.640 This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:10.559 Search seventy Sixers podcast Wherever You get your Pods. Elton 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:13.560 Brand vowed patients in the seventy six ers search for 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:16.360 a new head coach, this is a pivotal point for 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:18.919 our organization. You know, out a crossroads right now. So 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:21.279 I'm gonna be strategic and thoughtful. I'm not going to 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.400 be in a rush. And in the end that approach 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.080 paid off. Doc Rivers out with the Clippers after seven 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.560 seasons in Los Angeles. Within forty eight hours of Doc 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:38.720 Rivers becoming available, he was in Philadelphia fern interview less 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:41.640 than twenty four hours after that. The wheels were in 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.280 motion for the fifty eight year old Rivers to become 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.800 the twenty fifth head coach in franchise history. The Doc 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.559 is in the building. Sources have confirmed that the Sixers 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.240 have reached a deal with Doc Rivers. The star power 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.720 with Mbiad and Ben Simmons, you have some other very 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.080 good players of big market in Philadelphia. Those were all 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.360 components for Ernst got him right back in. You look 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.759 at that personnel, doc Rivers scheme, the way he coached 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:09.240 Doc Rivers. Why got that job. I really going to 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:11.880 bring that structure to the phill League. He's going to 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.200 get the bit out of Joe will embat I strongly 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:19.120 believe that Joe William beat Mike whenn' the MVP makes you. 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:24.440 On this episode of the broadcast Reaction Doc Rivers the 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:32.440 next head coach of the Philadelphia seventy six Ers. It 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:36.319 is an occasion, so amenas we are being represented in 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:40.400 three out of the four time zones in the contiguous 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:44.080 United States. I'm Brian Seltzer coming to here from North Liberties. 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:48.480 I'm time Againness from Phoenix, Arizona, and i am Warren 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:52.040 Rosen in Houston, Texas. Guys, we are gathered here for 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.800 this edition of the broadcast to discuss none other than 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.880 the hiring of the twenty fifth head coach in franchise history, 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:04.600 and it's Rivers. I mean, my first reaction is wow 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:08.040 for two reasons. Wow Because earlier in the week, at 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:09.720 the start of the week, if you go back to Sunday, 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.720 he wasn't even available. Then he became available, and now 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.000 the seventy sixers have him. So I think before we 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.560 get into the different layers of this hiring, I'm still 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.079 very much in a wow frame of mind. And I 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.200 want to start with you time because you've seen Doc 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.200 as a player at the back end of his career 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.200 and during the entirety of his ten years ahead coach 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:32.519 in the league. Well, actually, Brian, I go back further. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.880 I saw him as a college player in Milwaukee at 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.519 Marquette as a junior. We happened to be the same age. 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.480 And at that point my college basketball career ended and 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.040 I was a reporter, and at the time I was 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:50.160 with Northern Illinois and Doc was playing at Marquette, and 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.640 I actually asked the coach if I could travel up. 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.040 We had a game up there in Milwaukee, and the 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.440 coach of the Northern Milinois Huskies at the time let 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.720 me go on the team bus. I wanted to see 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:03.000 Doc play, so we actually played at the same time. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:05.959 Clearly he was a much better player. But from Maywood, Illinois. 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.760 He went to provis A East High School just west 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.519 of Chicago, and that was a storied basketball program even 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.799 in years prior to Glenn Rivers Doc Rivers playing there, 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.119 So to your bigger point, and then I did see 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.880 him in college in the NBA. In fact, his first 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:22.800 year it was with the Hawks in their training camp 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:26.639 was in Charleston, South Carolina, at the College of Charleston, 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.760 and I was covering the I was working in television there, 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.639 and low and behold, Mike Fortello brought the Hawks in there, 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.760 and I talked to Doc at that time, and we've 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.880 reminisced about that many years ago. But to your overall point, 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:43.240 it's it's very exciting because at this time, and really 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:46.000 in a lot of lost seasons, but certainly for the 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.800 Sixers now have a coaching vacancy coming in. It was 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.680 almost like a game of musical chairs, and at a 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.160 certain point, you know the music was going to stop 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.360 and who was going to be your coach? And there 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:58.720 was talking about Lou and of course Billy Donovan took 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.760 the Chicago job and Dan Tony and then as you say, 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:06.280 Doc Rivers became available and that change of dynamics. So 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.960 they got a tremendous head coach, two time Coach of 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:13.080 the Year, NBA champion, totally respected. He's gonna get his 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.920 thousands win with the Philadelphia seventy six ers, whether it's 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.479 in twenty twenty one or twenty one season or the 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.960 following year. He's very close. And I believe nine sixty 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.120 four to a great day for the sixties. It really is. 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.080 I echo what you both said. I was so excited 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.760 and a little surprised. Obviously, he just came up on 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.680 the market this week, he's already been to Philadelphia, and 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.760 now he's getting ready obviously to come back more long term. 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.120 So this is something really exciting. I have a little 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.320 bit less experience watching him coach, but what I do 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:46.000 know is that he is a relationships guy. Ask anyone 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:49.000 around the league, other coaches, other players, players who have 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.400 and haven't played for him. They love Doc Rivers. He's 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:56.799 just one of the high character, role model type figures 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.719 in this league, and I think Philadelphia is really lucky 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.880 to someone that brings those types of qualities to the table. 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.040 When you watch any team that at least i've seen 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.080 usually Clippers teams. When the Clippers come to town, there 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.640 are players on the opposing team that want to just 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:13.839 say hello to Doc, that want to have a conversation 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:17.000 with Doc. There are reporters that love having conversations with Doc. 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.280 So to have somebody like that, to get to start 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.320 building relationships of our own with him, it's something I'm 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.520 really excited about. It's interesting to say that, Lauren, because 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.400 when you just watch some of the interactions, it jumps 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.640 out that factor that he commands respect. I was going 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:34.480 through We have access in our department to the Getty 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:38.040 Images photo archive, and you know that these photographers who 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.719 take photos of all these basketball games and lo and 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.360 behold from the game the Clippers played against the seventy 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.080 six ers at the Center in February. After the game, 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:50.760 there's Doc and Joel Embiid engaged in a very congenial, 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:55.880 friendly handshake. Just seeing that there was that immediate friendship 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.760 and camaraderie brought on by respect. And Doc's a name 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.400 teamac like you said, He's been there, He's done that, 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.160 and it's incredible to me that this is going to 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.080 be his twenty second year as a head coach in 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:11.560 the NBA. Nine hundred forty three wins, that is such 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.960 a massive number. He's missed the playoffs only once in 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.840 the last thirteen years. And when I think of all 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.599 the positives surrounding the profile of Doc as a head coach, 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.040 t mac he's a guy who during that time has 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:29.719 seen just about everything on the court. On the court, superstars, 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:35.400 managing relationships and adapting with the times of an evolving 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.240 style of playing the league, no doubt about it. And 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.520 that's what you get is a lot of that experience. 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.719 And I missed the wins by twenty but he's going 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:44.680 to get it with the Sixers in the next two 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.360 year or so. So the biggest thing in the NBA 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:50.640 is a head coach is respect. And he's got it 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:52.880 the second he walks into the gym, the second he 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.799 puts that whistle around his neck and walks on the floor, 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.120 he's got that and our players are going to know that. 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.600 Of course, the bias has already played for him with 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.800 the Clippers, which I think is going to be really important. 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.640 And he's been in all those crucial moments to win 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:08.920 a championship, you know, and then they wanted an O 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:10.920 eight in Boston in twenty ten. They were in that 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.640 finals with Kobe against the Lakers. So he's seen all 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:18.480 the coverages, he knows everything about the NBA and he's 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.600 been in all those situations. And then again it's a 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.880 he's an incredible person, I think, you know, I think 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.280 we all saw that on a different level in the 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.000 bubble when he talked about when there was the restart 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.760 to the restart, and he talked about, you know, so 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:38.000 eloquent they look at it made the national news and 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:41.280 I think anybody that listened to that talk about racial 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.720 injustice and his father being a police officer in Chicago 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:49.240 for thirty years and wanting to be treated fairly, it 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:53.880 was really powerful. And so he's a he's a great person. 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.600 He's an incredible basketball mind that's been in our league 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.720 at every level as a player and a coach and 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.000 a podcaster. The only thing he hasn't done really is 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.559 be in the front office. So it's a great move 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.240 by the seventy sixers. And you know, you said, you 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:12.360 don't know, but I would imagine Doc called Doc all right, 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.200 So there's a relationship. So many of the players of 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.280 that era, you know, looked up to Julius Serving and 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.520 he's so close to our franchise and got his take. 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.040 And I don't know that for sure, but you know, 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.560 he did his due diligence on the Sixers, probably just 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.840 as they did with him, and two thumbs up. And 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:31.960 that's I think, Like I said, it's going to be 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.640 a tremendous thing to inject new life. He's won the 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.600 plus figure in Boston with the Clippers. Sorry, it was 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.480 only plus one the very first year, but with Orlando 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:44.199 was a big number. When he got the Boston there 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:48.120 was a huge total win differential in a positive manner. 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.120 So I think we're going to see that as well. Well, Tommy, 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.920 you said it, he couldn't be a better ambassador for 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.080 the game. I think that was super clear in the bubble. 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.560 But that wasn't the first time that Doc has found 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:04.160 himself in national news, always choosing the right side of history, 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.600 always being candid and open and having the words when 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.760 I think it's really it must be really difficult to 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.920 find the words on the national stage. And he's an 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.440 international ambassador to the game as well. Selts, you mentioned 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.960 that interaction with Joel embiid Ramona Shelburne actually pointed it 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.319 out today that the two of them did a basketball 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.439 a Basketball without Borders trip to Senegal together a few 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.400 years ago, so that might be where that relationship started. 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.520 But we know that they have a little bit of 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:33.120 history there. So whether it's on the national stage, international stage, 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.760 this is someone who represents the game. My parents don't 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.600 follow basketball, but they knew the name Doc Rivers when 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.200 I told them who our new head coach was going 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.240 to be, and we saw that same type of excitement 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.199 from Josh Richardson. We got to see his reaction as 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.000 he was doing a live stream of his own when 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.840 he saw the news break. Josh Richardson has not played 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.720 for Doc, but he was really excited for the opportunity 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.240 to do so. So I think, whether you're a player 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.839 or you're a parent in Houston, Texas, this is someone 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.680 you know about and you know that he brings this energy, 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.160 this aura that's important, that's special, and is going to 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.360 bring something really different and unique and exciting to this group. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.440 There's great guys to see. Joel chime in in the 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.160 old Twitter sphere recently minted father Joel embiid that amidst 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.160 diaper changes and all the other things that come with 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.280 being a new dad, he tweeted out, welcome to the 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.200 City of Brotherly Love, Coach Doc Rivers. Excited for the 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.440 future and what we're building here Philly forever. So an 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:33.080 immediate sentiment of positivity from Joel Embiid. One of the 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.000 things that I did earlier was run through some of 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.440 the lists of big names that Doc Rivers has coached 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.920 over the course of his career. And when you start 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.680 in Orlando, you had Tracy McGrady, Grant Hill for a season. 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.400 You go to Boston, of course there's Pearson Garnett and 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.600 Alan and Terry Kawhi, Leonard Paul George with the LA 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.640 Clippers in addition to Blake Griffin, Chris Paul DeAndre, Jordan, 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:56.000 JJ Reddick, different guys, different types of players, and I 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.000 think Tea mac he has shown over the course of 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.520 his career talking about Doc Rivers that he is an 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:04.320 ability to tap in and understand and relationship build with 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:08.280 the different types of talents and stars that he comes 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:13.040 across and works with. Absolutely, and not only who he's coached, 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.880 but who he's played under. He played for the Knicks, 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.880 he played for the Clippers when Larry Brown was there. 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:22.880 I believe he had a stint with the San Antonio 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.680 Spurs for while. Could be mistaken about that, but he's 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.719 had a Welt Mike for Tello for definite shure in Atlanta, 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:33.520 and he's had a number of experiences to learn from 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:37.080 throughout his career. When you're in the NBA for as 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.400 long as he's been associated with it, as you say, 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.480 twenty plus years, as a head coach, a broadcaster and 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:46.400 then a lengthy decade plus playing career. You've seen it 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.840 all and Brian you've touched on and how our game 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:53.280 has changed and he's adapted with that. So it's gonna 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.040 be I think it's gonna be very interesting. I think 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.120 the team will be re energized, certainly for the Sixers 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.040 and the players. You know, they've got a right or 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.480 wrong that was a very abrupt ending in their playoffs 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.160 and now it's going to be a new attitude and 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.800 a new approach. And you know, I think this is 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.640 obviously a huge part of it in the hiring of 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:18.000 Doc Rivers, and something that has become clear when you 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.520 dive into Doc and his stops. I mean, I think 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:22.839 you can point to an instance everywhere he's been as 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.400 far as pretty much bringing guys together, whether it was 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.920 the Donald Sterling incident and navigating the clippers of the 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:32.120 playoffs in twenty fourteen, the Boston Celtics when they had 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.760 to come together, and Lauren, I know that you watch 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:39.480 the playbook documentary series on Netflix, the first episode Profile Doc, 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.120 and it was it's really very well done, great insight 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.960 from Doc Rivers, and he lists out different rules that 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.600 he lives and coaches by. And the one thing that 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.480 I'm going to take away from that episode was UNBOOTU, 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.360 the idea of UMBOOTU with the Boston Celtics, and how 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:56.400 that two thousand and eight team that won the title 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.320 bought into that and they truly became more of a 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.800 we not me type of embodiment and that ideal. Well, 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.440 if you haven't already watched that episode on Netflix, I 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.400 actually watched it, I believe, on Tuesday, before I even 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.960 knew that this was a possibility. Maybe I was hoping 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.200 it was, but it was a really special episode. Doc 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.960 was very candid, and he explained the highs and the 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.440 lows that come along with being great and the idea 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:26.959 of Ubuntu and coming together as one, the idea that 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.840 he subscribes to that something that I've actually spoken with 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:33.520 my family a lot about is if one person gets better, 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.320 the rest of the group gets better. If one person falls, 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.720 the rest of the group falls. And what better way 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:42.280 to structure a team than surrounding those types of ideals. 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:43.720 He talked about it a lot when it came to 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.920 that Celtics championship team in two thousand and eight, and 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:48.600 keep in mind, that was a team that missed the 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:50.679 playoffs the two years before that, and of course they 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.840 had some major acquisitions that really up to their ceiling, 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.599 but it was a team that had disappointed Tom not 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.880 unlike what you said about this group that's looking to 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.720 rebound for I'm unfortunate, let's say, ending to this season. 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.640 Doc has had experience bringing a group of players together, 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:11.199 galvanizing them around an idea that they can be better together, 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.520 and I think that that's something that he can definitely 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.440 bring to this group that we know is hungry for 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.800 a championship and we know can come close to that 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.520 type of let's say glory, but just hasn't quite gotten 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.800 over the hump yet. I'm really excited about the way 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:28.480 that that spirit can fit in with this group of 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:33.080 seventy sixers. And Lauren, you touched on it, and that's 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.760 what team is all about, and that's what Doc Rivers preaches. 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.960 He's a winning person and as a coach who's finally 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:46.120 won the NBA championship, and that whole concept of sacrificing 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:50.080 for others, you know, like the hockey just ended and 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.080 I didn't watch a lot other than a little bit 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:53.920 of the Flyers. I didn't watch a lot of the 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.600 NHL playoffs, but when it comes to a close, I'm 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:01.520 watching and I don't care if that's the NBA, if 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.360 we could get minor league baseball, I know they didn't 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.960 play because at the end, when a team culminates with 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:11.160 a championship, all of the themes are exactly the same, 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.000 no matter what level it is. And what do they say. 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:18.800 They say all the big adjectives, trust, sacrifice, loyalty. These 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.600 guys are unbelievable. We did it together. We you know, 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.560 all of the same things almost to a team, to 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.320 a man, are stated, whether it's Major League Baseball, the NFL, 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.840 or the NBA. When it comes to the end, that's 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.480 what winning teams have, and that's what he preaches, and 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.040 quite frankly, that's what it's got to be for the 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.720 Sixers or any team that aspires to reach the gold 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.640 medal round the championship level. You know, whether it's set 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.920 in the screen, or being a supportive teammate, or bringing 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.480 a great attitude every day, or scoring thirty points or 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.240 getting the big rebound, all of those little things out 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.240 up we've seen in the playoffs, I mean in bounding 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.960 to basketball becomes of paramount importance, so you want to 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.120 he'll vitualize the habits and play with game speed and 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.040 the ferocity so that when it's real, when it comes 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.200 down to gut check time, you've already been there, and 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.320 Doc Rivers is going to bring that intensity, that emphasis 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:16.680 on execution, team sacrifice, everything. I just talked about a 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.600 couple other adages it sounds like he lives by guys, 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.880 is that he embraces pressure, he welcomes it, doesn't run 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.480 from it. And I think that I'm really curious to 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.640 see how he comes into this season himself following a 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.640 tough end to his run with the Clippers in that 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:35.760 second round series against the Danver Nuggets. And also the 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.760 idea that he seems to promote and preach is that 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.320 if you're a champion and you have that championship mindset, 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.200 it's never what's in the past. You just got to 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.480 keep looking forward and go for it. So I think 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.600 that's a mindset that could very much mesh well both 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:55.280 the narrative surrounding Doc coming into this season in parallel 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.040 with the narrative surrounding the seventy six ers collectively. Right 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.920 for sure, I think another thing that we took from 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.120 the playbook, which again, go watch it if you haven't. 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:05.600 He talked about the fact that Doc Rivers is a 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:09.359 big Muhammad Ali fan and literally and figuratively as a fighter. 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.680 As a boxer, you're going to get hit. You're going 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.240 it's not a matter of if, it's when and how 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.600 many times and how often and how you get back up. So, 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.040 like you said, Sets, this is Doc coming off of 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.120 a bit of a disappointing season. And what you said 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:25.439 Tom about the seventy sixers, this is a group that 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:27.720 has been hit and now it's their time to get 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:31.680 to rise together and to hit back. And that's where 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.080 champions are made. We hear it over and over and 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:38.160 over again. It's how you respond to adversity. And if 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.560 you think about this group of seventy sixers players too, 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.320 these are guys that experienced adversity before they got to 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.640 the Sixers. They're a group that's experienced adversity since they've 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.399 been with the Sixers. And like you said at the 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.760 very beginning of this conversation, it selts there's very little 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.439 in the NBA that Doc Rivers has not seen and 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.280 he has not tackled. So I think this for him 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.280 is an interesting new challenge, but he's going to be 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:01.000 able to draw on a lot of his path experiences 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.360 to hopefully put it all together for the seventy sixers. 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.240 I'm excited, guys. We have the first preseason game what 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.840 this weekend, and then the regular season opener later this month. 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:14.280 Isn't that I wish it work? Maybe not so much 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:19.600 in twenty twenty twenty. I guess why don't we wrap 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.719 it up on this. We're gonna hear from Doc Rivers 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:23.440 at least at this point in time, as far as 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.000 we know, We're gonna hear from him publicly as the 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.320 head coach of the Philadelphia seventy sixers for the first 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.080 time in a few days at the beginning of next week. 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:33.680 Tom I will start with you, what are one of 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.080 the things that you are most curious to hear from 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.680 him about learning more about him? And then Lauren you 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:42.000 can pick it up after Tom. Well, I mean, I 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.720 think he's gonna probably lay out because when you get 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.560 a job, when you interview, even with a track record 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.600 like Doc Rivers, when you're talking to Alton Brand and 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.520 you're talking to you David Blitzer and Josh Harris, you 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.480 have to lay forth a plan and so that they 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:01.560 hear your vision, right, I mean, if you listen to 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:04.199 the reporting, you know what happened in Los Angeles is 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:07.159 that phrases that it comes up so often when teams 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:12.360 part weighs, but that philosophical differences, well, the philosophical differences 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.520 here obviously align. And so you want to hear the 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:19.959 plan and about player development, about getting the most of 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.760 your players. You got two All stars in your chock 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.680 full of talent and bringing this team to a whole 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.639 other level. And you guys kind of both just touched 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:32.000 on these things, and that is underdog. You know, you 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:34.399 start to create a chip on your shoulder, which is 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:36.959 never a bad thing to be the hunter, you know, 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:38.880 you know you we're not the hunting yet, we got 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.280 a lot to prove and so and Doc Rivers is 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:44.080 not above learning a little bit from his past experience 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:48.040 and using that growth and bringing that to the Philadelphia 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:51.000 seventy six ers. And same thing with the players. So 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:53.720 that's what I think we're going to hear. And you 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:57.000 know Lauren had mentioned earlier about relationships. That's really what 0:19:57.080 --> 0:19:59.480 it comes down to, so that the players build a 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:03.200 trust in the coach And likewise, when you're a coach 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:04.960 and you're putting the players out there, you've got to 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:07.639 be able to trust that they're going to execute and 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:11.080 get it done. That's how you become successful. And style 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:13.120 of play will be something that he will talk about 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:15.199 and that's what I'm referring to in terms of the 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:18.880 philosophical you know, the plan, the platform like that. So 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:21.760 I think Philadelphia is gonna like this guy and in 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:25.879 that same Philly tough mantra that has to be within 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:28.600 the fabric of any coach in any ball club that 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:31.240 plays in our city because that's what our city demands. 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:34.440 I'm excited, I'm pumped, ready to go. Let's start it 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.679 right now. Guys, Thank you so much, and I'll have 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:39.600 a lot more to say in the days and weeks 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.000 ahead about Doc Rivers, now head coach with the seventy 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:48.320 six ers. Thanks for hopping on all right, Brian, Big 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:52.600 thanks to t mac chiming in from Phoenix, Arizona proper 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:55.920 where he's doing a little vaka, and Lauren Rosen for 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:59.679