Doc Rivers Explains How Close He Was To Turning Down The Celtics Job | KG CERTIFIED

On the latest episode of KG Certified, Kevin Garnett sits down with his former coach Doc Rivers. Doc explains how he almost didn’t take the Celtics head coaching job.

A must-watch episode with Doc Rivers, Kevin Garnett & Paul Pierce drops TOMORROW!

#kgcertified #kevingarnett #celtics #docrivers

Audio Versions:
All The Smoke & What’s Burnin – https://omny.fm/shows/all-the-smoke
KG Certified + Ticket & The Truth – https://megaphone.link/CBS2228773803
The Ariel Helwani Basketball Show – https://megaphone.link/CBS9207163270
Forgotten Seasons – https://megaphone.link/CBS4192729482

Subscribe to the SHOWTIME Basketball YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/2OLkr50

Follow SHOWTIME Basketball:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/showtimebasketball
Twitter: https://twitter.com/shobasketball

Follow ALL THE SMOKE:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allthesmoke/

Follow SHOWTIME Sports:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/shosports
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/ShoSports/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shosports
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SHOsports
Official Site: https://www.sho.com/sports

Follow SHOWTIME:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/SHOWTIME
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/showtime
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Showtime
Instagram: https://instagram.com/showtime/
Official Site: https://www.sho.com/

I was going to turn down the Selter job um because I just left Orlando I wanted the year and Danny calls me and said hey can we talk and I said yeah I said when he said now I said what do you mean now he said look outside your window then he

Just flew all the owners up to Orlando without asking me damn he’s ringing the doorbell that’s how so he comes in and we’re sitting there and I’m like the hell a boss move it was cool and we’re sitting there and we’re talking about college players and I said U I tell you

The guy I love kid at Oklahoma State Tony Allen and the owner start laughing because Dan had just said that and then that made me say oh man we’re connected oh wow yeah that was that’s true story I said we’re connected wow cuz Tony was

You know he was wild he was your type of player Chicago he was God I was like this is my God man right right and it was so cool because you know some GS wouldn’t have seen that right and I was like man we can get this dude and it was

Right we were right they was like we need to get him Trey Paul Piers and we’ll be all right oh no that was never in the car PA give you credit because in a generation where everybody just wanted to leave Kevin you too we had to beg you to leave

Uh the best thing you did for us is say no because we ended up with rate you and you had have said yeah first it wouldn’t have work no but we had to make that y’all got Ray first because you said no we went to the draft and we draft we end

Up trading getting Ray Allen so now we got Ray and Paul now he want to come now this guy want to look different now you want now remember now you want to get some cinb yeah the all right yeah okay now you want to get some got ready I was like just

Me like this now you want to get some C and I didn’t think we can get them and we’re golfing me and Kevin Mel and Dan golfing I’m in the car with Kevin and I’m we’re trying me and Danny trying to figure any way to get Kevin Mel to say

Yes y working y working working but then Kevin told me he said doc you know what I want whoever’s the youngest best big man in the league you know that’s all I need and we can get that and we can just figure out I was like oh we getting

Kevin Garnett cuz we had Al right and I’m think Al was the best young big man in League at the time so when he said that I remember driving the golf cart and like we getting all three guys that’s what I was thinking I swear I

Told D we we getting them and and I said just and he was like who who we give up I said tell them to name them get take all of but we had a list of guys you couldn’t touch couldn’t touch Tony couldn’t touch Rondo right uh perk we

Needed yeah we knew exactly what we wanted it’s crazy I asked for those exact guys is that right I said uh cuz whenever I I think I said this to you I said I said this to you too I said man um I’m looking to play with the team I’m

Used to playing against and whenever I played against those guys B Rafe P ta perk I always felt like I got the best team because I watch film you know I’m watch two three games come into the game so I was like man every time I play perk

Every time I play see this what happened they got into it the year before so much they did they got into it in the game the year before looked up to him cuz I what I didn’t know is that I was like a big bro without being a big bro and I

Didn’t know big F came out of high school I didn’t even know none of this right but Indie e is my young fell right look so when we traded for him he called me like or before we walking like he’s like what’s up with big perk he thinking

I’m thinking tick think he might have to go hands with him like what’s up with him because I want to get understanding with him before I came in here and then whatever we had to get out the way let’s go ahead and get it out the way big fell cuz I

Want you to know I’m a different type of teammate that’s what I was Shing what it was y’all ain’t never played with a [ __ ] like me like hold on big F you didn’t p i don’t give none of that I’m talking about the locker room I was man we going

To be like and I was starting to implement on what we going to be like now I’m on defense I talk like this and perk was like oh for real like yeah big how to talk how to communicate you know what I thought our my favorite practice was the first practice oh yeah

In Rome because y’all got lit up second unit destroyed y i I respect i s respect Eddie House posy got at us baby I was like it’s funny the two things that happened um tibs had never you know I spend some time with belich and Tony duner that summer and

They were you know the offens and defensive coordinator I’d never done that oh wow and so um I tell tips you going to be the defensive coordinator oh wow and he’s like okay but he didn’t know I meant like no you running so if you don’t remember this but at the

Beginning of the practice tip started talking I’d left the gym and tip just looking around like where’s he going where’s he going you know CH we’re in the middle of Rome y’all by the way so I’m I’m sitting in the hallway listening uh cuz I just needed y’all to understand

It’s tip’s voice it’s not my voice and tip’s at the price bro you know T bro you can’t do that you just can’t leave the gym I mean and I was like you know what’s so funny though cuz you started doing that all year now when we had

Shoot around you would leave and TS do do the Scout that was on purpose cuz I was like cuz if not if I’m there y’all going to look over at me and I needed yall to look at tips I I thought it was really important hard on him we was like

What the [ __ ] and then TS first thing to do is go right into a drill okay man let me get two guys on the elbow two guys on the box we going to top five like man what the [ __ ] we look around you want like come on

Man do you leave and we start TI used to be into what is this man used to be into it they were about 10 different times where I was about to open the door cuz I could hear it and then I was like no we ain’t doing that let’s drill’s ticket

Man him T are you so not even no we going to run it this way we going to run it this way tibs wouldn’t back down from ticket that’s what the thing was that’s where I didn’t know I’m like at the door I need to go in and then the other part

Of that first practice Paul called a foul and uh I was ring and it wasn’t a foul but I wanted to see what the second unit would do CU usually the second say all right it’s a foul and po like it ain’t no foul then PA it’s a

Foul po grab the ball and they and kept playing and I was like oh we’re going to be good I call we’re going to be good listen after that first pass I got back to the Joint you know usually go back to your man Paul can’t hit the door we went

Downstairs you know training count you lay down we went down to have lunch and we sitting I was like man I don’t do this on training camp but man y saw how that [ __ ] look man that [ __ ] look crazy that [ __ ] look crazy man was like P had

A ball hit we all went ball I went ball and then Rondo and per five went ball the second unit the second unit the next day y’all destroyed him yeah it was but it was competitive