NBA coaching can be an unforgiving, cold, what-have-you-done-for-me-lately business. For Rivers to be on his third job in five years, having not advanced past the second round in a dozen seasons despite consistently coaching All-NBA talent, is as rare as it was predictable.
It's never great when your losses are more memorable than your wins. Rivers gets the last laugh, though, because he has a whole bunch of wins. Only eight coaches have won more regular-season games, and only three (Gregg Popovich, Pat Riley, and Phil Jackson) have won more in the playoffs. He's also currently 167 games above .500 for his career, which is seventh best of all time in the regular season.
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