Ainge: Doc Rivers Will Be Back

On the upside, Doc Rivers is coming back -- and yet the team to which he returns could look very different. At the NBA draft combine Thursday afternoon, Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge made [it] official. ... The Celtics have ...

After an adversity-filled season, Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers landed a pair of votes while finishing 12th in the NBA's Coach of the Year balloting. Rivers, who won the award in 2000 with Orlando but has been shut out during his Boston tenure, ...

03:47 PM ET 05.09 | The Brooklyn Nets whiffed with their attempts to hire Phil Jackson as their next head coach, but they've got an equally bold - and probably unlikely - choice next up: Boston's Doc Rivers. Stephen A. Smith reports that Mikhail ...

07:06 AM ET 05.16 | Doc Rivers likely won't be heard from publicly for a bit as he ponders his future, but that hasn't kept Boston's head coach from taking part regularly in the team's plans for next year, according to president of basketball ...

Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers released the following statement on Jason Collins, who revealed in Sports Illustrated that he is gay: "I am extremely happy and proud of Jason Collins. He's a pro's pro. He is the consummate professional and he is one ...

Celtics coach Doc Rivers coached Jason Collins for 32 games at the start of this season before Collins was traded to the Wizards at the February deadline for scoring guard Jordan Crawford. Before Collins came out in SI as , Rivers had referred to ...

BOSTON -- Before Game 6, Celtics coach Doc Rivers responded to the Carmelo Anthony-Jordan Crawford Game 5 spat, calling it "much to do about nothing." That was also the message to his players, telling them to forget about it and move on. Knicks' ...

The NBA announced a strict anti-flopping rule for this year's playoffs. There is no warning for the first offense like there was during the 2012-13 NBA regular season. In the playoffs, the first violation results in a $5,000 fine for the player ...

Bill Clinton applauded his courage, Martina Navratilova called him a pioneer and Doc Rivers compared him to Jackie Robinson. The NBA's Jason Collins said he was gay Monday, becoming the first athlete to come out while actively playing in one of the ...