As per the updates, The Milwaukee Bucks are hiring Doc Rivers as their new head coach, on Wednesday ESPN reported an agreement has reached for Rivers as the next coach.
Even after securing the second-best record in the Eastern Conference, the Bucks have fired Griffin only 43 games into his head-coaching career.
In the In-Season Tournament in December, the Bucks lost to the Indiana Pacers in Las Vegas, and Griffin’s ability to lead was in questing and evident that a change was coming.
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Rivers, who was an ESPN analyst after getting fired by the Philadelphia 76ers last May, served as an informal consultant to Griffin at the behest of the Bucks.
ESPN lost one of the two analysts who joined Mike Breen, though Doris Burke is still there, and a report indicates that ESPN might just roll with an alternative Breen and Burke booth.
Earlier Rivers, and Burke, replaced Jackson and Van Gundy on ESPN’s main NBA broadcasting team this season but ended just 15 weeks into their run together.
On Wednesday, Burke and Breen covered the Worldwide Leader’s broadcast of the game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Phoenix Suns. During the broadcast before things hit off, Breen made a hilarious tribute to Rivers as he endeavored a new chapter in his coaching career.
Breen remarked on Rivers’s new journey on the broadcast,
“Our dear friend has decided that life as an NBA broadcaster is way too stressful, so he’s decided to opt for a less stressful job: an NBA head coach on a team that’s trying to win a championship. We thank him for all his many weeks of service, and we wish him all the luck in the world. We’re a little heartbroken today, disappointed, but we’re thrilled for our friend because coaching is in his blood, it’s what he loves to do.”
