Minutes after the news that that the Milwaukee Bucks had fired coach Adrian Griffin, new reports began to swirl about who would replace him.
The first name that surfaced was veteran NBA coach Doc Rivers, according to a report from The Athletic.
Rivers has coached 24 seasons in the NBA and has a, 1,097-763 record. He is ninth on the all-time wins list, just two wins behind Larry Brown.
Assistant Joe Prunty has been named interim coach, the team said in a statement.
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Rivers has been working as an on-air analyst for ESPN this season. He was fired the day after the Philadelphia 76ers lost to the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Semifinals last season.
He had been the 76ers coach from 2020 to 2023. But the team didn’t make it past the second round of the playoffs in his tenure, despite having a superstar player like Joel Embiid.
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He did win an NBA championship with the Boston Celtics in 2008 and took Boston to the Finals again in 2010.
According to reports, the Bucks will talk to a small group of candidates for the job, but Rivers comes in as the front runner.