The main part of the article is about Rivers joining his dad in LA, but also of note is that Farmar will be cut and Nate Robinson will be their focus (to sign) after his buyout by Boston goes through. http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/12173377/austin-rivers-headed-los-angeles-clippers-part-trade-involving-boston-celtics-phoenix-suns And I thought Morey was trade happy, Boston is re-writing the book on asset hording.
Austin is going to suck, Doc will have no choice but to give him limited minutes, and then their father/son relationship will start to suck. Terrible move by Doc.
Yeah, it's never a good thing to have father-son in a coach-player situation. Classic case of conflict of interest.
Man, if Austin River doesn't get to play after a few games, I wonder what Mrs. Rivers does to Coach Rivers. Things get complicated.
this would piss me off if I was a clippers fan. Austin is not a good enough player to be worth dealing with all the weirdness surrounding this
I really don't understand this move. This will only be a distraction for the team. They should've just waited to sign Nate Robinson.
Coached my son from birth to about eleven then he didn't want me to coach requested it and I turned team over to another coach and the teamed failed miserably then my son asked if I would take back on coaching duties that season, I did team begin to win, but father and son coaching relationship didn't work well. Now my son is now playing in junior high and is more interested playing me one on one than me teaching.
The Clippers are rife with conflicts of interest. GM and coach being the same person. And a father-son relationship. GM, coach, and father in one, is just nuts. I know he did a lot for the organization when the Sterling situation happened, he has way too much pull in the organization for his own good now.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Sources: Clippers sign Austin Rivers to a 5-year, $120 million extension.</p>— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillSimmons/status/555929399023763456">January 16, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>