The Deep 3 Podcast - Doc Rivers Is Finally Fired | TD3 Clips

Episode Date: April 15, 2026

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Ladies and gentlemen, we got them. We got them. We got them. What happened? Who got got? Glenn Rivers is no longer employed by the Milwaukee Bucks. Per Shams Serraniah. Doc Rivers is departing as head coach of the Bucks, sources tell ESPN.

After a 32 and 50 season, the Bucks will embark on their third head coaching search in the last three years. This is phrased like he might have quit, which is pretty funny. Because he just did an interview with, I think, Fandall TV, where he was talking about the article that came out from Shams. a few weeks ago that was detailing the chaotic nature of this locker room in this Janus era and how everything's gone to shit around him. Mr. Glenn went on TV and said, it's a whole crock of bullshit. You're listening to the sources. I could tell Shams said something out for us.

He basically threw Camp Thomas, presumably under the table and under the bus and said a certain player was talking to him. You can take a guess who it is. Did everything but take accountability? And here we are like six days later. Apparently quits his job. He quit? He quit?

He couldn't. He says he departed. They didn't say fired. Careful language. I don't know if it's a respect thing. They want to put it out there that it was mutual or whatever. It doesn't stance the reason he would have been fired either way. He wanted to control his narrative, man.

He was like, you know what? I'm leaving. Nobody. I don't want to see. Yeah, I don't want to see Doc Rivers close to an NBA sideline ever again. Yeah. I need them on podcast, Mike's.

No, that's too close to play-by-play analysis. That's just to the sideline. You don't want them to tell cool stories. on all the smoke? What do you mean? I can't do it. I feel like if the if an NBA team hires Doc Rivers at this point,

Adam Silver come in, find the team, you know that they're tanking. You know that they don't have serious winning on their agenda. It's not like winning basketball games is not going to be at the top of their list. We've seen, we, I think we've seen the end of Doc Rivers as an NBA I haven't seen the end of one thing though. I have not seen

the end of Janus lying. Yonis was asked about this. He said, it's a Shocked to me. He also called Doc Rivers an incredible coach and says he's immediately going to call Doc Rivers after losing to the Sixers.

He did not see this coming. He had no idea Dr. Rivers would be fired and he thinks he's incredible. Can we listen to this? I suppose we could. Let's hear the tone of voice. Yo.

Incredible. Look at his face. He's lying, bro. He's like, wow. I've never heard it yet. I'm a shocked at me, but, hey, he's had 25 years

as a coach, incredible coach. 15, almost 15, years as a player. He's been in the NBA for 30, 40 years. He's definitely an NBA legend. As you guys know, it's a Hall of Famer. It's great working. He's just saying all this because his brother got PT. That's why. He's a shit about this year, shit about last year. Hey man, it's a Hall of Famer. 25 years. He's

been doing it. That's what you say when somebody sucks now, but you got to respect their name because you're trying to be polite. He said everything about his old accomplishments, nothing about his recent ones. And this chat GPT-ass response, man. He's listed accolades in his Wikipedia. Come on, bro. He's just trying to go home, bro. Yeah, I think LeBron, so I think LeBron has like the all-time title in this category,

but I think right now, Janus is the best liar in the league. He probably has the best lying efficiency. Liar. I don't know best lying volume. It's kind of an a shay season of lying. Let's rank all the... Yeah, I definitely think this is... Powering Yonis lies.

I think this is up there. I think what he's done this season. from a lying standpoint is, I think it's up there. We should do a tearless one in the biggest lies. And FAA history, the funniest lies. You know what's funny, I do have it written down its upcoming video. I play the greatest lies in the big of history. I do have that written down.

We'll do that this Thursday. Yeah. Yeah, and this comes shortly after what I mentioned, the article written by Shams in which he was outlining a locker room incident in which a player had something to say to Mr. Glenn. And Glenn said, in response, look at my resume. Google me.

I took teams to the playoffs. in championships that weren't supposed to be there. I thought this was one of them. Look my resume, Google me. And again, then he went on Fandle TV and talked about this article and said that, you know, the context he didn't include, a certain player was talking to me about his stats. And I'm guessing he's talking about Cam Thomas, reading two lines. Camp Thomas must have been like, I've dropped 50 before, give me the ball.

And then Mr. Glenn said, I was good in 2008. Google me, Chuck. He said, I took teams to the playoffs and championships that weren't supposed to be there. The 08 Celtics were supposed to be there. The 2010 Celtics were supposed to be there. They honestly were supposed to be there all the way through 2012 and you had different injuries. So outside of that.

They Loki underachieve. Yeah. Don't say Loki. The Clippers were supposed to be there at some point. Yeah. Fathously weren't there. The Sixers were supposed to get at least at conference finals. They never did that.

So who else? Yeah. So more of the story. Who was they take to the championships? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, bro. Didn't they make an in-season tournament finals? You're right, you're right, you're right. He took them to the championship.

My bad. You're right. You're right. And maybe it was Adrian Griffin. You're right, actually. Never mind. Because they fired you. Yeah, it was before you.

Because they fired Adrian Griffin. After the end-season tournament. Yeah, after like they won like, I think after like 42 games of the year or some crazy like that. They were 30 and 13 with Adrian Griffin. Yeah. Wait, the year before Kauai and PG came, was he, was Dr. Rockover still the coach?

The year before Kauai and PG came. Yeah, that was like Pat Bev, Lou Will, Montrez, Harold. I know they made it to the playoffs. Tyloo became the coach in 2020, I think. He became the coach the year Frank Vogel got hired by the Lakers, which was 2020 season, right? That was his first year that won the championship. I think 2019 was still Luke Walton.

Did he do the wrong play for the Clinton? Because, yes, because Vogel went in 1920. Yes, but was he the coach in 1819? I can't remember. So. No, who's the first year? It was still Luke Walton. Yeah.

Yeah. So. Good Lord. Yeah. Doc Rivers was the coach for those feisty clipper teams. Yeah. That's the only year that he can really hang on and say, yeah, his team overachieved. Who profits shit for that year?

Outside of that, I can't think of another year. Okay. Yeah, I have nothing nice to say about the way Doc Rivers handles himself. It's just because there's one thing to be a mediocre coach that was good once upon a time and that has kind of just clearly dwindled into being average for the last 15 years. it's another thing to be that and to be like incapable of self-reflection. And not to say he's going to come on TV and be like, Ahmed, of course, he's going to defend himself. Everybody has the right to. Why wouldn't he think highly himself?

He's Doc Rivers. He's a Hall of Famer. He's accomplished. But man, a certain way that he goes about it is just hard to, hard to fill reverence for at this age of his career. Whenever someone just goes around and say, Google me, I already know you lost the conversation. Oh, buddy. Hang it up, buddy. And every year it goes wrong.

He throws people under the bus. He's like, listen, it wasn't me. I didn't miss those shots. That's James. That's him while he's breaking threes. There's always some reason throw somebody in the bus while it's been so long

since anybody has thought you're a high level coach. He's better off coaching college at this point, honestly. Hey, in 2020, this random report here that's Bucos pulled up. Several members of Doc Rivers staff

felt Hardin was a driving force and his firing. I wonder who put that out there. It's three Dog River's burners. See, yeah, man. So does this help the ability for the bucks to keep you honest in the building?

Fuck, no. Nothing does. Well, I don't know. Moving off from Doc Rivers is a pretty easy way to say I'll be better next year. That shit is done, bro. I'm so tired. I'm so tired of the Janus experience, dog. I'm this close.

I tweeted out yesterday. I'm this close to blocking the word Janus on my timeline. I'm so tired of it. Just getting no news. Yeah, no news. Y'all let me know. Like, all is cool style, man. I'm going to walk in here one day.

Y'all going to have to tell me Yonis got traded. No word. Cool. That's what we doing. I'll send you a fucking raven. said you a bird you have like an owl from Harry Potter Yeah

Edwig Yeah Like his game of his own Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

Yeah He's over He just Yeah He shouldn't Uh Yeah he shouldn't have another Uh

Coaching opportunity In the NBA again I think I know I feel like the last The last couple Stop that he's had the ending has been very less than great.

A lot of it has come with very underwhelming circumstances. And so he probably is just going to go back to play by play announcing and podcasting and stuff like that. And honest, at this point, bro, just do you. I'm going to shoot my toe off if yon. This is a buck next year. All that's just so. You're going to shoot your toe off. Yeah, bro, I got to sacrifice my toe.

Like, what do you mean like you and your team are in a few talking about something? They will let me play though? You went to the league office. And I understand because since we talked about it on this episode, they did cost them some money when it comes to endorse some money from Mikey and all, which I understand. But it's like, yo, man, like you had, to what I remember, three serious injuries that are like season altering.

You hyper-extended your knee and then you had two different occasions where you had calf strains. You know who would have let him play? Who? Another team. And he just asked for trade. He probably could have been somewhere else that would have allowed him to play. Trilloges would have loved to let you play. God, no, please.

Listen, that's, that's, it's not bad.