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HISTORICAL FACTS: Doc rivers recalls burning timeout because of national history happening mid game - The Untold Story

Doc Rivers was coaching a game for the Boston Celtics on election night in 2008. | MSNBC / The Best People

Doc Rivers has been in professional basketball in some capacity since 1983 and has seen it from all sorts of perspectives: As a player, as a coach, as a president of basketball operations and as a media member. But one thing that sticks in his mind from that dense history is an early-season game from November in 2008.

That night, against the Houston Rockets, Barack Obama would win the Presidential Election, becoming the first Black president-elect in American history.

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