https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/...toudemire-doc-rivers-candace-parker-mark-few/ How? Why? For blowing so many 3-1 leads? For fathering Austin? Being a mediocre NBA point guard?
Winning a chip in Boston, longevity and a decent overall winning percentage. Doc isn't my cup of tea but it's pretty obvious he should be in.
HOF monitored every coach at nearly every stage, they have too many College Coaches...... That is a sign to include more NBA coaches. Just brace yourself to watch more NBA coaches getting inducted.
that 08 Boston ring has done so much heavy lifting for so many players on that team and for Doc Rivers as a coach
Seems like being the 6th winningest coach of all time is a decent enough metric for inclusion. I agree he has never necessarily been a great Xs and Os coach in any of his eras but the longevity of 27 seasons coaching combined with 14 years as a player is a feat in itself. Anyone who has spent 4 decades being introduced on an NBA court probably deserves to be included because it's exceedingly rare to be relevant in the NBA that long. Yes, you would hope after 40 years in the league he would have more than a handful of accolades(one NBA title, one all star appearance, one coach of the year) but even sustained NBA mediocrity is still sustaining as one of the top at that thing in the world.
I agree but Rudy also opted for the money over the tactical value for his HOF candidacy for trying to take over the post Shaq/Phil Jackson Lakers. It certainly wasn't his fault but the optics of him holding the broken pieces in the aftermath of a proud dynasty imploding is likely the thing that kept him out of the hall a little while longer. When the last memory people have your coaching career(and the most visible across the planet) is the Lakers hyping you up as the big swing to replace one of the best coaches of all time and leading one of the most dominant teams of all time and you deliver a losing season - that takes a while to get that taste of our voters mouths.....especially while the Lakers continued to contend that Kobe was a great leader of men - we now know that was a 20 yr April Fools joke.
Any and every coach in the NBA has a legit argument for the hall of fame if Doc Rivers is in. Not just a mid coach, he’s an actively bad coach. Terrible
The reality is the basketball HOF isn't really that exclusive. There's no reason to get bent out of shape about this. There are worse inductions for sure.
