The Los Angeles Clippers deal for Doc River has hit yet another bump in the road as the NBA seeks another day before approving the proposed deal.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the Clippers were trying to work out details and the language of Rivers' contract with hopes it could be finalized by Tuesday. The franchise hasn't submitted the contract to the NBA because it wasn't complete.
Details of how all this has been happening were told to The Times by NBA executives who were not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing situation.
"This is not out of the ordinary," one executive said. "It's normal contract details."
Sources confirmed on Sunday that the Clippers will sign Rivers to a three-year, $21 million contract. In exchange they'll send a 2015 first-round pick as compensation to the Celtics. The consensus now around the league is that Rivers signing will clinch Chris Paul's signature on a new five-year max contract.
Prior to the deal with the Clippers, Rivers was deciding between returning to the Celtics and stepping away from the game when the club asked him if he'd be interested in any of the coaching jobs that were opening around the league.
He was then asked if the Clippers job appealed to him, and it was then that he learned that the Celtics have begun preliminary discussions with that team on releasing Rivers from the last three years of his contract and thus making him available.
"At that point, this became a situation where both Doc and the Celtics were seeing if they could both get something they wanted out of this," the source said.
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