JJ Redick was the discuss of the sports activities world Tuesday for lambasting his former Clippers coach, Doc Rivers. Throughout a stay broadcast of ESPN’s “First Take,” Redick recommended that the present Bucks coach by no means hesitates to throw his “workforce beneath the bus” and continually makes excuses for his workforce’s shortcomings.
“There’s by no means accountability with that man,” Redick fumed earlier than being minimize off by Stephen A. Smith.
Redick’s outburst led to Austin Rivers coming to the protection of his father on ESPN’s “NBA Immediately” broadcast. Rivers disputed the notion that his father hasn’t been held accountable, mentioning that he is been fired by two groups (Clippers and Sixers) over the past 4 years.
“For somebody who’s supposedly not held accountable, he appears
to at all times be held accountable,” Rivers stated. “He’s at all times the man getting fired
when issues don’t go proper. He bought fired within the bubble for [blowing] a 3-1 lead
versus the Nuggets [when] half his workforce didn’t wish to be there.“Then he will get fired for dropping a workforce favored over him –
the Celtics final yr. All that is unusual coming from JJ. Your finest years have been
with the Clippers.”
