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With the final stretch of the NBA’s regular season about to get underway after the All-Star break, the Phoenix Suns are locked in to try and secure the highest seed possible. They sit in the fifth spot in the Western Conference, are eleven games over .500 and should get Bradley Beal back from a hamstring injury to join Devin Booker and Kevin Durant soon.
Current head coach Frank Vogel isn’t likely to get a lot of credit for helping to turn the season around for the Suns, but he certainly should. Already this season he has had to deal with Beal’s injuries, multiple dust-ups between Jusuf Nurkic and Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors and looking on as some role players voiced their displeasure at how they were being used by Vogel.
Last offseason before the Suns’ organization hired coach Vogel, they had whittled their selection down to a final three. This was widely reported to have included Vogel, their own assistant Kevin Young (who is still on the team) and Rivers. At that point Rivers was doing media work with ESPN and occasionally popping up on The Ringer, and he seemed like a man happy not to be coaching.
But then the Milwaukee Bucks fired their own first time head coach in Adrian Griffin – at a time when he had the Bucks second in the Eastern Conference – and Rivers got the call. This led to Rivers somewhat awkwardly coaching the East at the All-Star game, although he has since said he would have preferred to have taken over after the midseason exhibition was complete.
