After Doc Rivers officially became coach of the Clippers, they were still in talks with Boston regarding Kevin Garnett and or Paul Pierce. The Clippers would’ve had to give up DeAndre Jordan in order for that to happen.
Apparently, it looks like the reason that didn’t go down is because Doc Rivers didn’t want it to. I can certainly understand his unwillingness. KG is great, but this Clippers team is being set up to be good for a long time.
“I couldn’t get involved in that whole thing,” Rivers said. “That was the strangest thing in the world. I was seeing the trade talks and I was saying, ‘Wait a minute! We don’t want to give away that guy!’ We wanted that other guy too. That was the home run to get both.
“[Jordan] is just too young and too gifted to let walk out your door, bottom line. He’s a game changer defensively. He can single-handedly change a game with his defense. There’s five guys, and that number maybe too high, that can do that single-handedly with their size and athleticism and he’s one of them. When you have one of those guys, you want to keep them.”
H/T: cbssports
