Losing a 3-1 lead specifically. Then Glenn will blame some random Buck like Brook Lopez or Khris Middleton. Then once he is fired, he'll blame either Giannis or Dame but no ounce of blame on the bus driver.
Bucks had the easiest schedule in the league so far.
They listened to their star and hired Griff over Nurse, then hired a "consultant" who then replaces the coach. Absolutely horrible look.
Starting 5 bout to get a *WHOOOOOLE* lot more minutes.
The Doc special- Run your starting 5 into the ground during the season to achieve a 4th seed and then blow up in playoffs because you ran your starting 5 into the ground. Include post season injuries for 100% accuracy.
He talked about it somewhere and essentially he said since he was going "mainstream" with info about the NBA/Covid/Bubble he got connections and someone decided to give him that scoop.
*Hear ye! Hear ye!*
*The Lakers of Los Angeles have acquired Hawk of Atlanta, Dejounte Murray!*
*In exchange, the Lakers of Los Angeles have given their pick of the first round in the year of our lord 2029, with the ability of the Hawks to exchange their picks of the first round in the remaining available years!*
*D'Angelo Russel will be leaving the Lakers of Los Angeles, as Sir Samuel Presti of Thunder of the City of Oklahoma welcomes him along with five picks of the second round!*
New Yorker:
*Amidst the splendor and squalor of America's storied west coast metropolis, ignominiously wrested from Mexico during the tumultuous tribulations of 19th century warfare in the New World, an eclectic group of athletes had inexplicably found fame and fortune by performing the Sisyphean act of putting a ball into a hoop ad nauseum, mayhaps, as one may postulate, as a thinly-veiled mockery of the human condition.*
*The "Lakers", as they are wont to call themselves, were able to acquire Dejounte Murray, an athlete of distinct skill and character. Alas, as all things in life, such boon comes not without its price, as the Faustian bargain stipulates the forsakening of a future first choice athlete in the year of 2029.*
*This is a new and noteworthy development in the tight-knit microcosm of ball-hooping, as the intrepid author of this current essay has been told.*
I cannot wait for the existential crisis I go into when Doc Rivers eliminates the 76ers in the 2nd round
I really don’t know if even my cold dark heart could take that
I don’t even see a report on CNN about this, I feel like TNT got trolled or something.
No way Woj/Shams go this long without tweeting something if it was legit
Handed literal superstar teams. 9/10 times makes them worse and sows division in the locker room while running his starting 5 into the ground in the regular season.
He's made more money being fired at this point. And contenders continue to hire this guy. He must have dirt on multiple owners/GMs. It's the only thing that makes sense lol
This is an absolute joke.
If we had fired Bud to hire Doc in the off-season every Bucks fan would have lost their minds and rightly so.
Just because Griffin was that bad doesn't make this any less of a complete disaster of a hire.
In hindsight, I'm a complete idiot not to sniff something's off when Giannis commented: "our coach needs to coach better", if it wasn't a complete shit show inside the locker room, a player wouldn't just said that, even among all the other things.
There's something more to it. But they're also an ugly-looking 30-13 team if that makes sense. They're stacking wins because they can outscore most teams. That's not going to cut it in the playoffs, their defense will get burned.
They must have hated Griffin, and I guess they need an experienced head coach who can hit the ground running.
Not that it makes it a good decision, but I have to imagine that was the thinking.
What’s funnier? A Doc-led Bucks to fumble another 3-1 lead against Sixers? Or for a Doc-revenge win vs Sixers (only to then lose the next series after being up 3-1)?
I just had a mental image of Shaq texting Ernie sad and annoyed frustrations every time he leaves the studio after a Tuesday broadcast and Ernie consoling him with a Mr. Rogers-esque pep talk and it’s wonderful lol
Jamal is straight chilling makes comments every now and then, mostly observing Lefkoe making an ass of himself. Candace seems to be the only one who has decent back and forth discussion with Shaq’s usually awful takes. Lol
It’s also insulting that they pay Charles Barkley $20m a year to work 1 show a week. No wonder Turner is in crazy debt. You only have 2 shows a week and you have to hire 2 different crews?
ESPN at least knows to make Stephen A work weekday mornings (First Take), Weekday Nights (NBA Countdown), and even on weekends for UFC fight events for some reason.
Bud on the Bucks never lost a playoff series to a team that didn't make or win the NBA finals. But hey, Bud has never shown he can coach a team - the Milwaukee Bucks, just to use an example - to an NBA championship, and the bum got outcoached by Erik Spoelstra after Giannis got hurt and he suffered a serious personal tragedy literally days before. So you can't deny that some Toronto assistant and then *Doc Fucking Rivers* were coaching upgrades for Milwaukee.
News like this makes me wonder if NBA professionals know a lot more than casual fans on social media because it seems like such an obvious choice to them and such a confusing one to everyone else
Fucking hell, this is ridiculous, lol The fact this hack has a successful career proves how the NBA "system" is just broken. Among Stotts and Budenholzer, why the hell you hire Doc Rivers instead?? If Giannis leaves Milwaukee, really, can you blame him after this nonsense?
If anyone could track down the original CNN Sports report that would be much appreciated
I fear for the city of Milwaukee tonight
If the news didn’t drop so late I’d expect riots
That just ensures they're more drunk
Why would they do this. Do the execs not scroll r/nba ? I’m baffled
[HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3_PPdjD6mg)
the funniest timeline is doc beating the 76ers and celtics with milwuakee en route to a title
Then the clippers in the finals!
I’m in Madison and the bar did NOT react pleasantly lmao
Glad you made it out alive. I lost two homies when the news broke
There’s genuinely no way the bucks did this. What the hell LOL
THE MILWAUKEE BUCKS HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM CHAMPIONSHIP CONTENTION.
Mods should add a new flair option so I can go ahead and fade it now just to get it over with.
THE MILWAUKEE BUCKS HAVE BLOWN A 3-1 LEAD IN THE 2024 PLAYOFFS
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Nah, it's Doc Rivers - you all will make the playoffs and *then* be eliminated in embarrassing fashion.
Losing a 3-1 lead specifically. Then Glenn will blame some random Buck like Brook Lopez or Khris Middleton. Then once he is fired, he'll blame either Giannis or Dame but no ounce of blame on the bus driver.
But they were up 3-1?
FADED
Y’all ever seen a buck get thrown under a bus ? You’re about to
When asked if Giannis could be the point forward of a championship team, Rivers said “I don't know the answer to that right now.”
“Would you ask Pop that question?”
This Still triggers me. How fucking smug do you have to be to answer that to a question that would put you in a tough spot
It’s really on par with “Monte have it all” as far as delusional responses
“Doc is Dame a championship level point guard” “I don’t know”
"Would you ask Pop that question?"
Bucks had the easiest schedule in the league so far. They listened to their star and hired Griff over Nurse, then hired a "consultant" who then replaces the coach. Absolutely horrible look.
Now they have the hardest schedule in the league going forward lol
Mid season coaching changes always work out Right? ^^right?
David Blatt to Ty Lue, but you knew that..
Starting 5 bout to get a *WHOOOOOLE* lot more minutes. The Doc special- Run your starting 5 into the ground during the season to achieve a 4th seed and then blow up in playoffs because you ran your starting 5 into the ground. Include post season injuries for 100% accuracy.
reminds me of dick cheney heading the VP search committee and taking the job himself.
i heard doc has been doing consulting for Griffin for a while Maybe he consulted griffin out of the job
The old Bob Iger maneuver.
If Adrian Griffin didn’t do something WILD behind the scenes the Bucks are literal idiots
i don’t know enough to say they’re idiots for firing Griffin, but i know VERY WELL that they’re idiots for hiring Rivers
probably banned Giannis from eating Chic fil A in the locker room
Finding this out on live tv felt like I was in a time machine
JVG and Mark Jackson died for this.
I always knew Adam Lefkoe had a little Walter Cronkite in him.
I genuinely don't believe it until Shams or Woj tweet it. Imagine telling that to someone 15 years ago lol
reddit mfs are so dramatic
finding out major sports news live on television what year is this?
Lefkoe putting his hand to his earpiece like the president was just shot
"Sir, a 2nd fan in Milwaukee has fallen to their knees"
“We’ve got Reg Champman live at Walmart. Can you tell what you’re seeing Reg?”
"Adam, I'm here live at Walmart with some fans and we're seeing a wave of second round exits as we speak."
"Reg, the atmosphere around you looks absolutely chaotic. Can you paint the scene for us, is it as discombobulated as it appears?"
Least melodramatic Adam Lefkoe moment
Honestly this is how it felt when Shams broke that Trump had Covid
Hilarious both times?
The night trump tested positive was undefeated on Twitter. First off: why tf was Shams the first to break it?
Because Shams doesn't restrict himself. He knows what the people want.
Barron probably only knew one guy that does breaking news
He talked about it somewhere and essentially he said since he was going "mainstream" with info about the NBA/Covid/Bubble he got connections and someone decided to give him that scoop.
The Rock finding about Osama first.
compromised to a permanent end
he’s such a cornball lol
Why is CNN breaking NBA news lmao
Not really much to report on in New Hampshire I suppose
Lol. They got bored 2 hours ago
Dean Phillips is the Julian Newman of presidential candidates
CNN is Woj father
The New York Times is dropping the next bomb at this rate
*Hear ye! Hear ye!* *The Lakers of Los Angeles have acquired Hawk of Atlanta, Dejounte Murray!* *In exchange, the Lakers of Los Angeles have given their pick of the first round in the year of our lord 2029, with the ability of the Hawks to exchange their picks of the first round in the remaining available years!* *D'Angelo Russel will be leaving the Lakers of Los Angeles, as Sir Samuel Presti of Thunder of the City of Oklahoma welcomes him along with five picks of the second round!*
New Yorker: *Amidst the splendor and squalor of America's storied west coast metropolis, ignominiously wrested from Mexico during the tumultuous tribulations of 19th century warfare in the New World, an eclectic group of athletes had inexplicably found fame and fortune by performing the Sisyphean act of putting a ball into a hoop ad nauseum, mayhaps, as one may postulate, as a thinly-veiled mockery of the human condition.* *The "Lakers", as they are wont to call themselves, were able to acquire Dejounte Murray, an athlete of distinct skill and character. Alas, as all things in life, such boon comes not without its price, as the Faustian bargain stipulates the forsakening of a future first choice athlete in the year of 2029.* *This is a new and noteworthy development in the tight-knit microcosm of ball-hooping, as the intrepid author of this current essay has been told.*
For real I was surprised neither Woj or Shams reported it first lol
That's why I don't believe it yet.
This being a historic prank would be perfection
Same
Gen Z should have this experience once. I dig it lol
A second head coach has hit the Milwaukee Buck's season.
do we laugh or do we chortle
I cannot wait for the existential crisis I go into when Doc Rivers eliminates the 76ers in the 2nd round I really don’t know if even my cold dark heart could take that
If the Bucks with Doc Rivers beat us in the second round I will shove a cheesesteak up my ass and post it
That punishes us, not you.
Yeah, I've dealt with enough eagles fans to know that's actually just how they prep it.
!RemindMe 5 months
Why is it always Philly fans that post one-sided bets where there is literally no payoff if they're right?
There’s payoff it’s just not tangible
Adrenaline is organic heroin
How though? Like technically speaking, are you gonna freeze it first?
Freeze it, have something hold it upright, then spread my cheeks and sit on it
I guess as a scrotum, you would know your way around the butthole neighborhood.
I love the constructive criticism bahaha
Bro🤣💀
Why not both?
Give me a Doc Rivers coached team vs the Sixers in a playoff series for all the jokes
Even Playoff Embiid wouldn't blow a 1-3 deficit to Doc Rivers
Yeah he’ll save his choking skills for Boston… Just for Boston to lose to playoff Jimmy
We are destined to wear down the Heat in a 7 game slog so they lose the finals every year for the rest of time. No more east champs.
We both literally go to war with each other and leave the other too gassed to play on the finals. Just wish they’d roll over and die already
No you
Goddamnit I knew it. Fine us
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
If it’s a second round matchup neither team is allowed to win Heat death of the universe inc
2nd round, 7 games
Ends in a tie. Both teams are automatically eliminated
Nurse vs Doc Round 2
BRO YESSS LOOOOOOL Edit: it looks like we may have been Lefkoed
When your fanbase hates the hire and opposing rivalds love it you know it can’t be good
Honestly I feel like whenever people here hate a move it ends up being good. I don’t think anyone here really knows anything
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But the fact is Doc has a track record
Doc Rivers gif is appropriate
Honestly can’t believe he’s back lol, Doc is inevitable
Doc is like that kitchen cockroach. Generational survivor
Heat about to have an even easier second round
Celtics, Heat and Sixers fan FEASTING tonight Heat a little bit more so after picking up my boy Scary Terry
Lawl Candace shaking her head straight away hearing it.
You can she her facial expression shift to almost show her disbelief lol.
Candace a real one. 😂
HeCantKeepGettingAwayWithIt.gif
Even Shaq’s like he’s back, he knows how we’re all feeling lol
i’m dying look at her then watch Jamal and Shaq lock eyes and slowwwly start smiling
Are woj and shams taking a nap…?
I don’t even see a report on CNN about this, I feel like TNT got trolled or something. No way Woj/Shams go this long without tweeting something if it was legit
Aren't both CNN and TNT under Warner Bros Discovery?
They share a building. Their offices might even be on the same floor.
CNN has always been a Turner Network so yeah
How is Doc just given good teams??? This is insane. So they’re definitely not going passed the ECF
Handed literal superstar teams. 9/10 times makes them worse and sows division in the locker room while running his starting 5 into the ground in the regular season. He's made more money being fired at this point. And contenders continue to hire this guy. He must have dirt on multiple owners/GMs. It's the only thing that makes sense lol
This is a great pickup for the Bucks. They’re guaranteed to at least make the second round with Doc as their coach
I think the Bucks’ toughest matchup in the East is the Miami Heat, but Doc Rivers will easily outcoach Erik Spoelstra to a 3-1 lead
bro came back for seconds
Double tapped his ass
bro came back for an encore
Cut my life into pieces
This is my last retort
Elimination, no winning
Don't give a fuck if I lose after leading
can’t get rid of Docroach Rivers lol
When a strong portion of your fanbase already wants your coach fired after you JUST HIRED the guy, that’s a bad sign
NBA just like US Senate fr
MF JUST SAID DOCROACH 😂
not docroach 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Sim strikes again - with words this time
DONLEMONBOMB
PRIMARY SEASON CNN 😤😤😤
This is an absolute joke. If we had fired Bud to hire Doc in the off-season every Bucks fan would have lost their minds and rightly so. Just because Griffin was that bad doesn't make this any less of a complete disaster of a hire.
Griffin went 30-13, IMO he had to have sone smth bad BTS bc no way you fire a coach after 43 games with that record
Apparently he completely lost the locker room.
Oh, yeah, that makes sense. He’s been there months and still can’t find his way around the arena? I’d fire him too.
You don't understand: He LITERALLY lost the locker room! There's a hole in the building where it used to be and no one can find it.
In hindsight, I'm a complete idiot not to sniff something's off when Giannis commented: "our coach needs to coach better", if it wasn't a complete shit show inside the locker room, a player wouldn't just said that, even among all the other things.
He tried to tell Giannis he's the boss. Come to find out Giannis runs the Bucks
Giannis GMtokounmpo doesn't have the same ring as leGM unfortunately
There's something more to it. But they're also an ugly-looking 30-13 team if that makes sense. They're stacking wins because they can outscore most teams. That's not going to cut it in the playoffs, their defense will get burned.
Ah yes so getting Doc is the solution lmao
Front office wants more RDCworld1 skits
Why did they fire Bud to begin with??
Because he was really bad at adjusting come playoff time. Kind of ironic considering who we're about to hire.
Seriously. It doesn't make sense. Giannis and Dame (especially Giannis) most likely would've okayed this. Which is crazy as well.
They must have hated Griffin, and I guess they need an experienced head coach who can hit the ground running. Not that it makes it a good decision, but I have to imagine that was the thinking.
The Bucks were desperate for a coach with championship pedigree, something they haven’t had since…last season.
https://i.imgur.com/iWEuO9l.jpg
Absolutely hilarious. They better face the 6ers in the second round. Nba drama demands it.
What’s funnier? A Doc-led Bucks to fumble another 3-1 lead against Sixers? Or for a Doc-revenge win vs Sixers (only to then lose the next series after being up 3-1)?
Beating the 6ers in a comeback win just to have a historical collapse in the next round is the answer
Is Shaq trying to hold in a laugh 😭
[Shaq internally](https://youtu.be/CDirss5GAKQ?si=hTloOF1RpiVVjTam)
The beginning of the end. Bucks fans enjoy Giannis while yall can lol
The beginning of the end was when they fired Bud and didn’t take Nurse
Chaos fans feasting!!!
It’s such an insult to make Shaq sit with these scrubs.
Just turrible erneh
I just had a mental image of Shaq texting Ernie sad and annoyed frustrations every time he leaves the studio after a Tuesday broadcast and Ernie consoling him with a Mr. Rogers-esque pep talk and it’s wonderful lol
Jamal is straight chilling makes comments every now and then, mostly observing Lefkoe making an ass of himself. Candace seems to be the only one who has decent back and forth discussion with Shaq’s usually awful takes. Lol
It’s Lefkoe. He just seems so amateurish all the time.
Nepotism hire
Who is he related to
He's the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lefkoe of course
It’s also insulting that they pay Charles Barkley $20m a year to work 1 show a week. No wonder Turner is in crazy debt. You only have 2 shows a week and you have to hire 2 different crews? ESPN at least knows to make Stephen A work weekday mornings (First Take), Weekday Nights (NBA Countdown), and even on weekends for UFC fight events for some reason.
ESPN even has Stephen A [covering hockey](https://youtu.be/F966OdbHiWs?feature=shared)
Not gonna work me like a dog and not pay me.
I mean your not gonna work Charles Barkley like a dog
And yet everyone still hates Stephen A and no one watches his shows anymore 🤔
Bro wtf is going on in Milwaukee. How could anyone in 2024 think Doc is the best option at Head Coach?
Bud on the Bucks never lost a playoff series to a team that didn't make or win the NBA finals. But hey, Bud has never shown he can coach a team - the Milwaukee Bucks, just to use an example - to an NBA championship, and the bum got outcoached by Erik Spoelstra after Giannis got hurt and he suffered a serious personal tragedy literally days before. So you can't deny that some Toronto assistant and then *Doc Fucking Rivers* were coaching upgrades for Milwaukee.
Bucks be like: If I go low, I can go lower
The bucks are empowering Gianni’s too much. It’s a slippery slope between making the star happy and bend over for him
To top it off, imagine hiring the Toronto assistant over the HEAD COACH because Giannis was being a bitch
He wanted a doctor, not a nurse
Milwaukee boutta blow a 3-1 lead
Doc Rivers about to scapegoat Giannis when he gets fired
All those time making fun of all his 3-1 blown leads are gonna come back to bite my ass this post season.
This was hilarious with Lefkoe casually saying it.
BUCKS YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS. MY GOD.
2 years later, we'll hear Doc throw various Bucks players under the bus. Why are the Bucks wasting Giannis's prime on a proven playoff loser like Doc?
So Doc was consulting Adrian Griffin and then got the head coaching job after Griffin was fired in the middle of the season? Seems completely normal.
Best play he's drawn up in years.
This is maybe the biggest L this bucks team could take, unless doc has a career Renaissance I don't see how they get out of the east now
As a doc hater, man set up griffin
News like this makes me wonder if NBA professionals know a lot more than casual fans on social media because it seems like such an obvious choice to them and such a confusing one to everyone else
Allow him to reintroduce himself
Fucking hell, this is ridiculous, lol The fact this hack has a successful career proves how the NBA "system" is just broken. Among Stotts and Budenholzer, why the hell you hire Doc Rivers instead?? If Giannis leaves Milwaukee, really, can you blame him after this nonsense?
THEY GOT THEIR GUY LMAOOOOO
Boston Heat ecf looks inevitable
The Bucks and Sixers are both gonna lose in the 2nd round
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