Glen “Large Child” Davis and Doc Rivers each helped the Boston Celtics seize their seventeenth NBA championship 16 years in the past in 2008 and now as a convicted felon, the 39-year-old has some selection phrases for his former head coach.
The gloves had been off as Davis opened up a couple of handful of gripes with Rivers, the present head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks, beginning with an interplay throughout their time with the Los Angeles Clippers. Davis reveals Rivers pulled him from a recreation towards the Houston Rockets, a choice that Davis questioned earlier than Rivers power-tripped and referred to as over workforce safety to take away him.
“When you consider that 12 months, yeah I’m not excellent. However Doc is aware of me,” Davis informed Cam’ron, per You’re Welcome Community. “He is aware of my coronary heart. He’s seen me play trillions of instances and is aware of that I’ll give something to have the ability to play for my teammates and to have the ability to be on the ground. However that 12 months, Houston, he takes me out the sport and it’s heated. I say, ‘Doc, why you introduced me right here, man? I wanna ball. I’m attempting to play.’ He seems to be at me and he says, ‘Go to the again. Simply go to the again.’ At first, I didn’t wanna transfer, I stated, ‘I’m not going nowhere. You’re not about to kick me off.’ After which when he bought safety to love, ‘Come on, Glen.’ In the midst of a recreation.”
The incident occurred on March 29, 2014, at Houston’s Toyota Middle. Rivers benched Davis after 4 minutes and two shot makes an attempt, and a back-and-forth led to Davis being despatched to the locker room for “disciplinary points,” per ESPN.
Rivers lasted seven seasons as the top coach and president of basketball operations of the Clippers following his Celtics stint. That run was riddled with playoff let-downs, blown sequence leads and the unofficial label as the largest NBA “what if” of the 2010s, resulting in his firing in 2020.
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Los Angeles had prime Blake Griffin and Chris Paul co-lead the “Lob Metropolis” period that by no means reached the Western Convention finals.
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Davis spent two seasons alongside for the experience, averaging 4 factors and a couple of.5 rebounds throughout 97 appearances in a Clippers uniform. Los Angeles utilized the eight-year veteran as a minimal off-the-bench inside aggressor earlier than Davis retired from basketball for good on the finish of the 2014-15 season.
That send-off nonetheless doesn’t sit effectively with Davis, now 10 years later.
Davis feels as if Rivers modified as soon as the Clippers gave him an upgraded function. He highlighted the signing of Austin Rivers, Doc’s son, in 2015 which has been broadly considered a byproduct of nepotism.
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“He was the president on the time, and while you’re the president you may go and signal your son,” Davis claimed. “… So he was doing something he wished.”
Davis additionally fired off racially motivated remarks towards Rivers, claiming that Spencer Hawes and different white gamers had been granted preferential remedy on the Clippers.
The rift that grew Davis’ lack of belief in Rivers led the 2 down totally different, however constant paths. Rivers failed as head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers and was fired after three seasons in 2023. Davis, in the meantime, was sentenced to 40 months in jail final 12 months for an alleged scheme to defraud the league’s well being care advantages plan.
Nonetheless, all through the years, Davis’ emotions for Rivers haven’t modified.
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“I by no means left him on the altar,” Davis stated. “Since a rookie, I used to be there. I used to be the one rookie there. I used to be a rookie on that workforce for 3 years as a result of each different rookie (on the Celtics) was getting reduce or not taking part in anymore. Me and Avery Bradley had been the one ones that stayed as a result of we had a lightweight. We had some expertise.”
Davis presently sits behind bars in a federal facility.
