Rivers, 62, has coached for 24 seasons and not had a losing year since 2007.
The Milwaukee Bucks are hiring longtime NBA coach Doc Rivers, league sources said Wednesday, one day after the team fired first-year coach Adrian Griffin.
Rivers, 62, began serving as an informal consultant to Griffin in December at the behest of the Bucks. The team quickly moved to agree to a deal with Rivers after moving on from Griffin after just 43 games.
With a 30-13 record and two superstar talents in Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard, the Bucks are still in the middle of a season the organization believes can end in a championship. With that in mind, Milwaukee general manager Jon Horst needed to find a replacement for Griffin that could keep the team moving toward its goal.
Ideally, the Bucks would find someone with significant coaching experience, championship pedigree and enough gravitas to coach superstar talents to take over for first-time head coach in Griffin. With 24 seasons of coaching experience and an NBA championship in 2008 with the Boston Celtics, Rivers checked off all of those boxes and Milwaukee was aggressive in pursuing him as its coach.
