Doc Rivers is pretty much claiming it to be Donald Sterling’s fault that the Clippers aren’t as good as they should be here in 2015. According to Doc, some trades that the public never knew about because former racist owner Donald Sterling blocked them, would seriously would have changed things.
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Former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling stopped trades so beneficial for the Clippers you’d fall off your chair if you heard them. Just ask Clippers president and coach Doc Rivers.
Via CBS Sports by way of “The Fred Roggin Show” on The Beast 980:
“This is really only my third year but you can make a case this is our second year if you know what I’m saying,” Rivers told Beast 980’s Fred Roggin. “If I someday wrote a book and told you a couple of the trades we had in the first year that we didn’t do because of other reasons, you would fall off your chair.”
So if only Sterling had gotten out of the way, the team would be in much better position than they are currently constituted.
Rivers’ revelation probably does nothing to soothe Clippers fans’ anxiety and worry about the current construction of the team. Rivers, while lauded as one of the top coaches in the league, has proven to have a mixed record at best as the head of basketball operations. His trade of Jared Dudley to the Milwaukee Bucks last summer that forfeited a first-round pick was widely criticized, and his subsequent signing of Spencer Hawes to a four-year $23 million deal was a disaster.
I wish he would have just said what trades Sterling killed. It has my mind going as to what possible deals were on the table.
