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All The Smoke

Doc Rivers Fired, Ja Morant, Nuggets vs. Lakers, Celtics vs. Heat | WHAT'S BURNIN | SHOBASKETBALL

All The Smoke

The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts

Basketball, Society & Culture, Sports

4.87.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

WHAT'S BURNIN is here to breakdown all the major news in the NBA. Rachel Nichols is joined by Matt Barnes who react live to the 76ers firing Doc Rivers and Ja Morant's latest misstep. Plus, they preview both conference finals between the Nuggets-Lakers and Celtics-Heats. Also, they discuss the latest coaching vacancies as multiple star head coaches are available.

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0:00.0

Welcome into what's burning. I feel like we need that like breaking news.

0:04.6

Did it did it because like six seconds ago the sixers announced they are firing Doc

0:10.5

Rivers 154 to 82 regular season record but 20 and 10 in the playoffs. Sixers have

0:17.7

lost in the second round five the past six seasons. So this run actually predates

0:21.8

Doc but also speaks to ownership's frustration levels. So just start Matt what

0:26.1

do you make of Doc getting fired?

0:28.4

Interesting. As someone who played for Doc great motivator I feel like at

0:35.2

time struggles with in-game adjustments. You know it's been well documented all

0:40.7

week before he was fired just his record in closeout games or his teams

0:47.3

blowing three one up three two leads. Game seven this last game seven I mean

0:52.6

it's yeah Doc is the coach but you know and beat and hard and played Piss-Pour.

0:57.4

I think they know that I think the world knows that. But I don't know

1:02.0

Rach Doc has has been one of those very lucky coaches that from the beginning

1:06.5

starting with team-ac on to Boston with two Hall of Famers onto the

1:10.9

Clippers with Blake and Chris onto 76ers he's always found a team that has at

1:18.8

least one bona fide superstar but two but his inability to get them over the

1:24.0

hump. You know record very solid but you know with teams like that and

1:29.4

tell them like that you have to win championships or at least get to the

1:32.3

championship and I think his inability to do that with these very talented teams

1:37.1

as possibly why he was fired. Yeah I mean it's interesting you look at him big

1:42.7

picture and there's a lot of reasons why hey this may be justified but in terms

1:46.9

of the specific of game six and game seven in this series I mean his key

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