DeAndre Jordan’s change of heart produced one of the craziest free agency fiascos in recent memory, leaving NBA fans to try to pick their brain off the floor a day later. While the entire episode was wildly entertaining, the way things went down left Mavericks owner Mark Cuban extra salty.
Doc Rivers defends DeAndre Jordan’s decision not to call Mark Cuban
Doc Rivers tried to explain one of the wildest NBA free agent chases ever.
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Ricky O'Donnell has covered basketball at all levels for more than a decade at SB Nation. He’s currently the Associate Director of Programming.
On Thursday, Clippers coach Doc Rivers defended the way Jordan handled free agency, and said he didn’t believe the center owed Cuban the courtesy of a phone call to say he had changed his mind.
Doc said DJ shouldn't have made the call to Dallas. "When free agents leave, their agents call."
— Dan Woike (@DanWoikeSports) July 9, 2015 River added, “I do think guys need time. These are career decisions young people are making.”
Rivers then went into full spin control mode, saying he felt like Jordan never really left his team:
"I guess he left for a moment mentally, but not really." - Doc Rivers
— Dan Woike (@DanWoikeSports) July 9, 2015 As for that pseudo siege the Clippers pulled last night? Just great team building!
Doc called yesterday "A great team building moment." Not getting into specifics, but called it a "wonderful moment."
— Dan Woike (@DanWoikeSports) July 9, 2015 As for the highly publicized EMOJI WAR, Rivers insisted he didn’t really understand what was going on:
Doc Rivers "I guess I was kind of oblivious to all the emojis that were going on"
— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) July 9, 2015 ★★★
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