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The Boston Celtics are unarguably one of the best teams in the history of the NBA.
They are tied for winning the most number of NBA Championships with the Los Angeles Lakers, as both teams have 17 championship banners hanging in the rafters.
However, the last title that the Celtics won was in 2008 and Doc Rivers was the head coach of the team at the time.
The Celtics were a different team under the coaching of Rivers, but even though the team was tightly knit, there were times when a fight or two broke out in the locker room.
Rivers shared one such instance after a win against the Indiana Pacers via SHOWTIME Basketball on Twitter.
Rivers revealed that despite winning the game against the Pacers, an argument almost turned into a fight between Kevin Garnett and Brandon Bass in the locker room.
“We clinched the game, and you and Brandon Bass about to fight. I am sitting there, and Kevin is yelling at me – ‘You ain’t getting involved! You ain’t getting involved!’ Rivers said.
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The veteran head coach was obviously present in the locker room, and many expected him to break up the fight between the two players.
However, Garnett warned Rivers to stay out of the fight, and it resulted in the entire locker room getting insanely heated.
At the time, Rivers did everything in his power to ensure that the news didn’t go outside of the Celtics locker room.
After all, it would have given the media a new topic to talk about, and it would have had an adverse impact on the chemistry of the team.
The story proves that Rivers undoubtedly knew how to handle his players when he was the head coach of the team.
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