Doc Rivers, fired by the Magic last November after a 1-10 start to the just-completed regular season, will be hired as the next head coach of the Boston Celtics.

 

 

A news conference is expected to take place Thursday.

 

 

Rivers would replace John Carroll, who was told by Celtics management Monday that he would not be promoted from interim coach and given a permanent job.

 

 

Rivers coached Orlando for four full seasons and made the playoffs three times, but advanced to the second round only once. He was named the league's coach of the year in 2000 after the Magic finished 41-41 in his first season.

 

 

Carroll replaced Celtics coach Jim O'Brien after O'Brien resigned in January because of differences with Danny Ainge, Boston's director of basketball operations.

 

 

Rivers joined ABC Sports as an analyst on its top NBA announcing team in the days after his firing by Orlando.

 

C/O ESPN.com

decent hire i suppose.

 

 

 

rivers didnt particularly much...

 

 

 

granted he didnt have hill...but he had mcgrady...there was no excuse for starting that bad this year.

He's not gonna change anything unless they get some decent players around Pierce.

if Ainge has his way, Pierce will be going to Chicago

 

anyway Ainge sucks

anyway Ainge sucks

Definitely. I have no idea what he is thinking. Same thing with Isiah Thomas.

Yup, P-Squared might be on his way out of Boston. I really hate Ainge and Thomas as GMs. Ainge shouldn't never traded Walker.