A brutally honest Doc Rivers did not understand why the Bucks decided to hire him either
If you have any affiliation with the Milwaukee Bucks, now is probably a good day to step away from a microphone.
For some reason, several important figures within Milwaukee’s organization (including Giannis Antetokounmpo) have had enough questionable quotes in the past few days that a break is needed more than ever.
But instead, Bucks head coach Doc Rivers managed to admit something that he probably should have kept under the lid unless he was given some sort of truth serum.
During an interview with Frank Isola and Ryan McDonough, the coach said that he was just as confused as the fans were when Milwaukee decided to fire Adrian Griffin earlier this season.
“I told [Bucks ownership] ‘I don’t understand why you’re doing this.’”
Bucks HC Doc Rivers tells @TheFrankIsola & Ryan McDonough about his conversation with ownership after Adrian Griffin was let go
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“To be honest, I told our owners when they called, I said: I don’t understand why you’re doing this. One of the things they said was well it doesn’t matter. We’ve done it now and we want you. So that was a tough one. That’s where you had the hesitation.”
It makes sense why Rivers was confused because nearly everything about his hiring process, including his role as an advisor to Griffin, was befuddling.
Even how the news broke, somehow by nameless reporters at a seemingly defunct department at CNN Sports, caused furled eyebrows.
This was an expensive decision by Milwaukee’s ownership group and it somehow led to Rivers coaching the Eastern Conference in the NBA’s All-Star Game.
But the most confusing aspect of this entire saga is why either party was interested in this particular partnership. Rivers put himself in an impossible situation by taking this gig and it seems he knew that right away.