Doc Rivers reveals that he received other offers before leading the Bucks

During the All-Star Break, the team's coach Milwaukee Bucks, Doc Rivers, revealed that he turned down two offers from other teams before accepting to lead the Wisconsin franchise in January this year. The information was given during an interview with the journalist Rachel Nicholsfrom “FS1”, having been shared this Thursday, 22nd. The coach, however, did not reveal which teams were.

“I had committed to taking a year off. Two other teams had already called me during the season, but I didn’t even go for the interview.”said Rivers, who was in charge of the Philadelphia 76ers in the last three seasons and, even though they had good regular seasons, they ended up falling in the second round of the playoffs on all three occasions. After being sent away, he began planning to take a year off from the league.

However, everything changed when Adrian Griffin was fired from the Bucks, even with a campaign of 30 wins and only 13 losses, meaning that Rivers was unable to refuse an opportunity to take over a team with Giannis Antetokounmpo It is Damian Lillard. However, the beginning of the story between the two did not start well, with only three wins in ten matches so far. But even so, the team is in 3rd place in the Eastern Conference.