Bucks’ Doc Rivers: Minneapolis ICE shooting was ‘straight-up murder’
"What’s going on in our country right now is absolutely wrong, as far as the race stuff."
"What’s going on in our country right now is absolutely wrong, as far as the race stuff."
"It's always throwing your team under the bus... there's never accountability with that guy."
"'Doc'? That's my name?"
"No way ESPN talking actual basketball with actual basketball experts."
"I think a lot of Black men are saying now it does not matter, either side, we are not being helped, we are still being incarcerated. We still are struggling."
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"What the f*ck was Doc supposed to do in that position?"
A clip from the ESPN days of JJ Redick went viral as he blasted Doc Rivers for making excuses which sounded a lot like his own comments.
"I can’t believe Doc wanted that out there."
"These mistakes can't happen."
"Might as well come on over."
"If you’re a Black man or a woman, or Brown, Latino or Puerto Rican or — they hit everybody. And it was awful."
"I feel for him."
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"I can't find the guy or the woman responsible for this report."
"I told you, I'm not a sports fan."
"I'm not saying he's 100 percent in shape, but he's built a little bit different than Laurence Fishburne."
"I really hope he gets the job because...he’ll realize, not as easy as you think."
"So we probably had about two minutes, and I was like 'Where is this coming from?' And they're like 'CNN.'"
"I know the Doc thing came across as personal, of course it was personal, because I played for him for four years."
"I got the impression that JJ Redick’s words weren’t just coming from him."