Painful slice of experience
Posted by GameSetMatch on April 14th, 2010
Every so often, the scar that runs down Doc Rivers’s right thumb reminds him about the importance of games at the end of the season.
He got the wound on the last day of the 1992-93 season, in a game that was more or less meaningless aside from the fact that the two best teams in the Eastern Conference — his Knicks and Michael Jordan’s Bulls — were playing on national TV.
The Knicks had wrapped up home-court advantage in the playoffs and were sitting on 59 wins. It wasn’t getting to 60 as much as league pressure that led coach Pat Riley to play his regular rotation.
“They basically threatened that back then you had to play,’’ Rivers said. “Everybody had to play. Jordan had to play in the game that was completely meaningless.’’
Click here to read the full article – By Julian Benbow of The Boston Globe
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