76記者否認管理層要拿D’Antoni取代Rivers的傳言
76人記者KyleNeubeck回應了MarcStein所寫到傳聞：
Checked in on rumor regarding Morey looking to replace Rivers with D’Antoni. Wa
s shot down instantly by multiple team sources, who noted the job Rivers has don
e this year in strange circumstances in addition to Embiid’s leap under Doc’s
watch
關於76人管理層希望用D’Antoni取代Rivers的傳言已經得到證實，但這則消息已被許多消
息人士否認。 他們指出，除了Rivers本賽季將鉛筆變身為MVP級別球員之外，他在球隊遭遇
多種困難情況時的處理方案也很令人印象深刻。
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記者MarcStein：
Rivers might have a more significant problem to manage than merely tuning out th
e naysayers questioning his presence on the Top 15 list. The conspiracy theory a
lready making the rounds in league coaching circles holds that Sixers president
of basketball operations Daryl Morey will eventually want Mike D’Antoni to take
over in the hot seat for Philadelphia’s new Joel Embiid/James Harden tag team
after D’Antoni’s offensive creativity helped catapult Harden to three scoring
titles in Houston.
除了一些人質疑Rivers出現在聯盟15大主教練之外，Rivers又面臨一個重要的事情要處理。
那就是目前在聯盟教練圈裡普遍認為，76人莫雷會希望Mike D’Antoni來接替Rivers成為
球隊主教練，之前D’Antoni在進攻方面的執教能力幫助哈登在火箭時期曾3次拿到聯盟得分
王。
Rivers certainly must factor into this season’s Coach of the Year balloting for
his role in keeping the Sixers in contention for the East’s top seed throughou
t the Ben Simmons saga, but the pressure on him hasn’t exactly waned with an Em
biid/Harden partnership to sort out and critics prone to reference his three blo
wn 3-1 leads in the playoffs and four home losses in Game 7s far more often than
the championship he won coaching the 2007-08 Celtics.
Rivers當然有資格被提名本賽季聯盟最佳主教練，因為他在西門不出戰的情況下仍然保有爭
奪東區頭號種子的競爭能力。但隨著鉛筆和哈登的合作，Rivers面臨的壓力並沒有減弱，目
前Rivers的那些批評者更喜歡提到他在季後賽多次3-1領先被逆轉的經歷，而不是在2007-08
賽季率領塞爾提克贏得總冠軍。