{"id":698126,"date":"2026-04-04T17:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698126\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T17:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:21:24","slug":"bucks-coach-doc-rivers-officially-in-basketball-hall-of-fames-2026-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698126\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks coach Doc Rivers officially in basketball hall of fame’s 2026 class"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame made it official on April 4: Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers<\/a> is part of the 2026 class.<\/p>\n

The news had leaked out earlier in the week when ESPN reported that Rivers was among those voted for induction.<\/a> The hall of fame ceremony will be in August.<\/p>\n

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“I’ve done a lot,” Rivers said on April 1<\/a> after ESPN’s report. “The numbers are the numbers.<\/p>\n

“It’s not, I swear, why I got into this. Honestly, man, it’s the relationships. It’s the people. Even from the day I was nominated. The calls, I couldn’t even tell you … hundreds of player calls. And some of the calls have been amazing, because I thought they didn’t like me anymore.<\/p>\n

“Seriously. Just because you get respect … you have falling-outs with players. And you don’t ever worry about it. That’s just part of it, as a coach. It’s been amazing how many people that have reached out. It’s again made me feel really good about just doing what I do.”<\/p>\n

Rivers, who played at Marquette before a long NBA career, is getting inducted as a coach. He is in his 27th season as an NBA coach, also having stints with the Orlando Magic, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Clippers and Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n

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Rivers is 1,192-863 for his career, and 95-100 in his two-plus seasons with the Bucks. He won coach of the year with the Magic for the 1999-2000 season, and the NBA title with the Celtics in 2008.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers in 2026 basketball hall of fame class<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame made it official on April 4: Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,75,103,383,2660,130,135,102,121,3871,6,76,207],"class_list":{"0":"post-698126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-bucks","11":"tag-coach","12":"tag-doc-rivers","13":"tag-espn","14":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","15":"tag-milwaukee","16":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","17":"tag-milwaukeebucks","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-orlando-magic","20":"tag-philadelphia-76ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116347593529832463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}