Overview
- Asked before a game, Rivers declined to say how long he will coach and pointed to wanting more time with his seven young grandchildren.
- Rivers said missing school grandparents days for his grandkids weighs on him and suggested it may be time to see them more.
- The 64-year-old coach still has one year left on the deal he signed after replacing Adrian Griffin during the 2023–24 season.
- In recent games he let lead assistant Darvin Ham handle timeouts and play calls, and he said Ham is ready to be an NBA head coach.
- Rivers called this season rough and said the step he was hired to deliver never materialized, and earlier he brushed off a media claim that he had already decided to retire.