A number of Boston Celtics alumni are making the rounds as candidates in current coaching vacancies, most notably former Celtics coach Doc Rivers, who plans to interview with the Philadelphia 76ers according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania.
The former Celtics coach has also been tied to the New Orleans Pelicans by The Undefeated’s Marc J. Spears, with both teams reaching out the same day he and the Los Angeles Clippers parted ways.
Two of Doc’s assistants are also Boston alumni and making the rounds with the veteran coach, including former Celtics assistant coach Ty Lue — tied to a number of vacancies around the league — and former Celtics guard Sam Cassell, mentioned as an option for the Houston Rockets.
“I think Sam would make a really good head coach because Sam was a leader,” related Fox Sports’ Chris Broussard in an interview with Heavy.com’s Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson. “He was a leader, all the players loved him, he could instill confidence in guys.”
The same could be said of Rivers and Cassell, the line running through the trio in that their past as players and connections to Celtic greatness serving as a solid substrate in which their coaching philosophies emanates from.
Rivers of course was instrumental in securing Banner 17 for Boston, and Lue has since earned his own hardware coaching LeBron James with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Cassell has yet to garner such awards as a coach, but with the sort of reputation as a player he’s carried his career behind the clipboard forward with, one has to imagine it’s not off the table for the former Celtic champion if the right situation opens up.
With a number of high-profile gigs open around the league, it sees all but certain at least some of this trio of former Celtics will be running the show in a new location at the start of the 2020-21 season.
Whenever that gets around to materializing, that is.
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