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LOS ANGELES -- After weeks of negotiations and intrigue, Doc Rivers has officially left the Boston Celtics for the Los Angeles Clippers. Matt Miazga Chelsea Jersey . Rivers will be introduced as the Clippers new coach and senior vice-president of basketball operations at a news conference Wednesday at their Playa Vista training complex, capping a lengthy process by completing a rare trade involving a championship-winning coach. The Clippers and Celtics finalized the move Tuesday when the NBA approved the deal. Boston will get an unprotected first-round pick in 2015 from the Clippers for Rivers, who went 416-305 and won the 2008 NBA title during nine seasons with the Celtics. Bostons front office mostly had warm words for Rivers after he took off for his exciting new team on the West Coast, apparently not eager to stick around for the aging Celtics rebuilding process. "We dont have a championship without Doc Rivers coaching," said Danny Ainge, the Celtics president of basketball operations. "He did an unbelievable job. He has a long history of great success with us in the last nine years, and we wish him the best in Los Angeles." Rivers is likely to be the NBAs highest-paid coach with the deal, and hell also have a prominent role in the Clippers front office with his additional title. Clippers owner Donald Sterling will expect impressive results for such an investment, but his long-suffering franchise has never been in better shape on the court -- providing Los Angeles re-signs Chris Paul, who is eligible for a five-year contract worth nearly $108 million in July. Paul is widely expected to stick with the Clippers, and Rivers arrival might cinch the deal. With Boston likely to spend the next few years revamping, Rivers seized the chance to take over one of the leagues most compelling young teams. He was eagerly pursued by the Clippers, who are coming off the best regular season in franchise history with a roster built around Blake Griffin and Paul. "He felt like it was time for a change," Ainge said. "He felt like we all needed a change. That was his rationalization or justification for going to the Clippers, that this was better for everybody. I dont think there should be any resentment. I know how Boston fans are. This may be a win-win for everybody." The 51-year-old Rivers replaces Vinny Del Negro, who wasnt re-signed after the Clippers won a franchise-record 56 games and their first Pacific Division title last season. Los Angeles first-round playoff loss to Memphis likely cost Del Negro, who went 128-102 over three years and became the only Clippers coach to post consecutive winning seasons in 35 years. Rivers new deal is expected to be similar to the three years and $21 million that remained on his contract with the Celtics. Boston was knocked out of the first round of the playoffs by New York last month, and Rivers gradually became more interested in the Clippers vacancy than the Celtics rebuilding process. The negotiations for Rivers proceeded deliberately and abruptly over the past two weeks, with several potential moves discussed by the franchises. Ainge would have welcomed Rivers back to the Boston bench, but Rivers apparently saw the Clippers as a golden opportunity. "Sometimes youve got to let your good people go to pursue what they need to pursue to make themselves happy," Celtics President Rich Gotham said. "While its tough to see Doc go, I think we feel good about what he did here. We will be lucky to find as good a coach as Doc was." Los Angeles also spoke to Boston about acquiring star forward Kevin Garnett in another element of the trade involving Rivers, but NBA Commissioner David Stern wont allow teams to trade active players for a coach. Garnett and Southern California native Paul Pierce wont be reuniting with Rivers in Los Angeles any time soon: Ainge said the NBA has forbidden player trades between the two teams for the rest of the year, and both aging stars are under contract for next season. Garnett has discussed the possibility of retirement with two years and over $23.5 million left on his deal, while Pierce is due to make $15.3 million next season. Rivers played one season for the Clippers in 1991-92 during his 13-year NBA career, and they made the playoffs that season for the first time since the former Buffalo Braves moved to the West Coast in 1978. Los Angeles has made only five playoff appearances and won just two rounds since that season. But the Clippers are coming off the best two-season stretch in club history, and Rivers arrival further alters the franchises decades-long reputation. Rivers will be an intriguing match with the high-flying Clippers and their Lob City acrobatics, but his coaching pedigree and leadership skills will provide him with immediate credibility in his new locker room. Rivers Boston teams played at a more deliberate pace than last seasons Clippers often used last season, but the veteran coach is likely to adapt his offensive plans to fit the Clippers talent. Rivers impact on Los Angeles could be felt most on defence, where the Clippers often struggled last season despite their lofty record. After his playing career ended in 1996, Rivers went into broadcasting before serving as the Orlando Magics head coach for just over four seasons from 1999-2003, going 171-168 and winning an NBA coach of the year award. He is one of four active NBA coaches who have won a championship. Nemanja Matic Jersey . Scott won the Australian PGA last week in his first event in Australia since winning the U.S. Masters in April. 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Of course you can.Diana Taurasi is a womens basketball superstar, winning three WNBA titles and six EuroLeague championships over her 12-year professional career, as well as four Olympic gold medals wearing the stars and stripes.She was born in California to an Argentine mother and an Italian father. It is precisely these two nationalities that have stolen her heart, blood and appetite.I am 90 percent Argentine and Italian and 10 percent American, Taurasi told ESPN at the start of National Hispanic Heritage Month. At home, we ate Argentine food, spoke Spanish, watched soccer. I still have the Latino and Italian spirit.Taurasi, who confidently proclaims leaning toward all things Latino, has spent most of her life in the United States, where she has achieved her greatest triumphs. In August, she won her fourth gold medal in Rio de Janeiro. In college, she won three consecutive NCAA championships (2002-04) at the University of Connecticut before being selected as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2004 WNBA draft. Her self-assuredness as a guard was apparent from the beginning, and she received no shortage of individual awards and collective recognition after leading UConn to a 139-8 record during her career.Taurasi took to American culture like a duck to water, although her identity was very clear.Argentina and Italy are her favorite countries and it shows not only in the food she eats -- Barbecues and pizza with egg, and a little spaghetti with sauce, gnocchi, mate and wine -- but in all fields of her life. Family comes first for Taurasi, who entertained several family members during the Phoenix Mercurys recent visit to Los Angeles.She is feisty, ironic and sassy. Just ask FIBA about the time Taurasi refused to comply with a regulation that she felt was an insult to women. In order to play in the 2012 EuroLeague, players had to adapt their uniforms. The shorts had to end at least ten centimeters above the knee and could not be more than two cenntimeters wider than the thigh. John Terry Chelsea Jersey. The players also had to show their shoulders and wear jerseys that did not sit at the same height as their shorts, or were always tucked into them. Taurasi flatly refused and ended up paying out several hefty fines.Thats more Argentine; Argentines are always shouting and emotional, she added.Taurasis successes in Russia and Turkey and at the European level during the winters, as well as her commitment to the Mercury, have prevented her from traveling regularly to Argentina. She says five years have passed since her last visit to Argentina, the country where her mother was born and the place where her father arrived as a goalkeeper before finally quitting soccer. That is the source of Dianas love for soccer, and her worship of Diego Armando Maradona, who she met in the bleachers during a mens basketball game between the United States and Argentina.I saw Diego and asked someone if I could get a picture and say hi. Within 10 minutes, someone from the U.S. came over and off we went, she said. He is God; he is the one who always represented us in good times and bad. The champion.Taurasi was asked who her biggest Hispanic inspiration is in the world of sport.Diego is God to all Argentines, she said, but Manu [Ginobili] came from Argentina and changed the game in the NBA, how you play. And now Messi, with his touch and his worldwide impact, it has to be Messi.Together with Luis Scola, Ginobili also gave her the best advice she ever received.I have spoken a little with Manu and Luis Scola, we have the sense of being Argentine and I am very proud to play in the U.S. at such a high level, she said.And so, setting aside her heart and focusing on the American 10 percent, Taurasi has an eye on the next Olympic Games, which would be her fifth. At 34, she knows she needs to make a decision, but first she needs to do two things.I need to speak to [USA Basketball] and to myself.One conversation will be in English, the other in Spanish. Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic Wholesale Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys China NFL Cheap Jerseys ' ' '
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