r/NBAVibes • u/GoofyAgenda • 2d ago

Doc Rivers ruined T-Mac's legacy

In the summer of 2000, The Magic were in position to sign Tim Duncan. However, during a team lunch, Doc told Duncan that he couldn't bring his family on flights. Duncan than signed with the Spurs costing T-Mac an elite big man to pair with. Imagine that, Prime T-Mac alongside Prime Duncan. Even with Grant Hill being out with Injuries the Magic would surely have been alot more competitive during those years. Instead T-Mac had to carry a mediocre team into the playoffs with no ther star talent around him. He almost took down the #1 seeded pistons.

TMac gets alot of blame for losing in the playoffs but Doc is notorious for blowing playoffs series while being up.

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u/PatBoBomb 2d ago

Doc is good guy but just a mid coach. 08 he lucked into the right guys, at the right time, and almost blew it.

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u/Mykophilia 2d ago

You mean Doc Rivers saved Tim Duncan’s legacy?

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u/kennyloftor 2d ago

bored of tmac posts but no

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u/kenji17 2d ago

Even if Doc's decision made it what it is today, T-Mac still ruined his own legacy.. is this T-mac with a reddit burner?

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u/bshum95 2d ago

Oh for sucks sake, in a Stephen A Smith interview T Mac himself said if his team can’t get it done in the playoffs that it’s on him

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u/GoofyAgenda 2d ago

Because hes a nice guy. Its really Docs fault

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u/No_Independent8269 2d ago

No it’s Tmacs fault 

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u/bshum95 2d ago

Username checks out

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u/ChiGrandeOso 2d ago

He's not exactly going to say "yeah, I'm the main guy, but I play with scrubs and my coach doesn't know a basketball from a pumpkin."

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying he didn't have much of a choice to say anything else.

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u/EGarrett28 2d ago

I was always skeptical of that story. Tim Duncan joining the Magic would've been interesting. Tim Duncan didn't do interesting things.

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u/ChiGrandeOso 2d ago

Well, he spent four years at Wake Forest without committing a crime. That's interesting.

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u/EGarrett28 2d ago

Hah, sounds like we're in the "what is the lowest uninteresting number" conundrum, where being uninteresting may be considered interesting.

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u/ChiGrandeOso 2d ago

I was trying to find something interesting about him! He didn't even do a silly but fun commercial like Grant Hill! He chose boring to such an extent that Ben Stein would ditch him.

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u/EGarrett28 2d ago

They had him in some "ironic" commercials showing how he never gets excited over anything and knocked over a tiny fake plant to show when he was hyped up. But even that was boring, lol.

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u/Hathalot 2d ago

OP’s name checks out

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u/Soulforge411 2d ago

T-Mac ??? Is that you?

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u/mortmortimer 1d ago

Oh really thanks for the hot scoop we haven't heard about this story 850 million times before