On April 17, Beijing time, when Philadelphia won the playoffs with a big victory over the Raptors at home, Philadelphia City coach Rivers ushered in the 99th playoff victory of his coaching career, officially equalizing the Celtics legendary coach "Cardinal" Auerbach, rising to the 5th place in the number of coaching wins in NBA history, and the NBA official also sent congratulations to Rivers.
Although before the playoffs began, there were many voices that looked down on Philadelphia, especially thinking that they would be eliminated by the Raptors. Only in the first game of the playoffs, Philadelphia won 131-111 at home to take a 1-0 lead on aggregate.
With this coaching victory, Rivers has won 99 games in his playoff coaching career, officially equaling the playoff coaching wins of Celtics legend "Cardinal" Auerbach, rising to a tie for 5th place in NBA history.
NBA head coaches are among the top five in the history of playoff games in charge, as follows:
1. "Zen Master" Phil Jackson (229 wins)
2. Pat Riley (171 wins)
3. Popovich (170 wins)
4. Larry Brown (100 wins)
5. Rivers and Auerbach (100 wins)
Rivers is one less than a playoff victory to tie the record of hall of fame legendary coach and former Philadelphia City coach Larry Brown, who is expected to lead the team to victory in the next game, thus continuing to improve his all-time playoff wins and rankings.
For Rivers' record, the NBA official congratulated him through official push after the game, and also wrote " Congratulations to Coach Doug Rivers, the number of playoff total wins has come to the fifth place in history!" ”
(Text/Drunken Floating Life)