This Is Not The News I Wanted To Wake Up To

Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers is leaning toward leaving the team after this season, sources told the Boston Herald, but he told the newspaper Tuesday that no final decision had been made about his future. There had been rumors in seasons past about the 48-year-old Rivers stepping down, and once again it's the tug of his family life -- not another NBA coaching opportunity -- that may pull him away. His son Jeremiah will be a senior on the Indiana basketball team this fall. His daughter, Callie, will enter her final season as a volleyball star at Florida. And son Austin, an elite basketball prospect, will be entering his senior year in high school. "Part of it is true," Rivers told the Herald. "Every year I sit down in the middle of the summer and I have a family discussion. We talk about what we want to do. That's nothing new, but every year it gets stronger and stronger. And I think people are making some common-sense reads. I've got three seniors next year, two in college and one in high school. That's important to me. We're all family men. We all have kids.

Let's call it what it is. The Celtics are finished. I think it's very possible they go out in the first round and not a single player on that team would give a shit. There's no signs of them getting younger or motivated and Doc wants to get out of town before the whole ship burns down. Him and Danny Ainge brought us into Iraq and then their 8 years was up and it's time to go back to the ranch and watch the fireworks.