BOSTON Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers will return for another season, staying with the team he led to the NBA Finals twice in three years for a run at another championship.
"Doc is a fantastic coach and leader and I am thrilled he is coming back for the upcoming season," Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca said Wednesday.
Rivers did not immediately return a message left at his hotel in San Antonio, where he was watching his son, Austin, play in an international under-18 tournament.
The inability to watch his four children play sports was one of the major things pulling Rivers toward taking time off from coaching. He said last week that he was hoping there would be some compromise that would allow him to give both his personal and professional lives proper attention.
Around the league
GOLDEN STATE: The Warriors have extended qualifying offers to Anthony Morrow (Charlotte Latin) and C.J. Watson, making both guards restricted free agents.
The moves gives the Warriors the right to match any offer sheet signed by either player.
Morrow's offer is worth $1.029 million for next season, while Watson's offer is for $1.25 million.
HOUSTON: The Rockets have extended qualifying offers to restricted free agents Kyle Lowry and Luis Scola.
MEMPHIS: Restricted free agent Rudy Gay has received a qualifying offer from the Grizzlies.
PHOENIX: Amare Stoudemire has opted out of the final year of his contract with the Suns to become a free agent.
Agent Happy Walters said the five-time All-Star made the move after talks with Suns owner Robert Sarver failed to result in an agreement on a contract extension. The last year of Stoudemire's contract was worth about $17.7 million. Walters said the Suns remain in the picture.
Undrafted first-team All-American Scottie Reynolds will play for the Suns' entry in the Las Vegas Summer League.
The 6-foot-2 guard from Villanova was the first AP All-American unselected in the draft since the NBA-ABA merger in 1976.
SAN ANTONIO: Richard Jefferson has opted out of the final year of his contract and will become a free agent.
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