Doc Rivers Inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame

CLNS Media’s Bobby Manning and Nick Gelso spoke with Doc Rivers at the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame media day, one day before his induction — and the first thing on his mind isn’t his own legacy. It’s what Tommy Heinsohn would have thought of the Jaylen Brown trade.

“Don’t ever lose to the Sixers.” That’s what Heinsohn told Doc on a team flight decades ago. Doc says this trade “would have drove him crazy.”

Plus: Doc calls himself “another Celtics Hall of Famer,” breaks down how he revived a dead culture in 2008, and answers what he’s given back to the game after 13 years removed from Boston.

Chapters:

0:00 - Doc Rivers on the Jaylen Brown trade & Tommy Heinsohn
1:22 - “This trade would have drove him crazy”
2:21 - Why rivalries meant something in Heinsohn’s era
2:31 - Doc: “I put myself in as another Celtics Hall of Famer”
3:22 - Reviving a dead Celtics culture in 2008
4:05 - The playoff-collapse debate around his HOF case
4:32 - Doc as an ambassador for the league — the bubble, Donald Sterling
5:24 - “What did you give back to the game?” — “My voice.”

Full press conference on our press conference channel. .

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