Doc Rivers will not return as head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks next season, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania:
Doc Rivers is departing as the head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks, sources told ESPN on Sunday.
The Bucks will embark on their third head coaching search in three years. The Bucks will pay Rivers his eight-figure salary for the 2026-27 season. The franchise and Rivers are discussing whether he will move to an advisory role in the organization, sources said.
Rivers leaves the Bucks with a 97-102
record after three seasons and two first-round exits.
Serving as an “informal consultant” to former Bucks coach Adrian Griffin until Griffin was fired by Milwaukee partway through the 2023-24 season, Rivers was named the Bucks’ head coach shortly thereafter. Former Portland Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts was hired by Milwaukee as an assistant before that same season after Milwaukee traded for Damian Lillard, but Stotts left just four months into his tenure after Griffin reportedly yelled for Stotts’ to join the coaches’ huddle while Stotts was speaking with Lillard and Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Rivers has a lifetime coaching record of 1194-865 over 27 seasons and led the Boston Celtics to a championship in 2008.
