Boston Celtics head coach Doc Rivers is in Los Angeles to watch his son Austin play in the 2010 Boost Mobile Elite 24 game on Saturday. On Friday he took in the Under Armour High School Slam Dunk contest (won by Deuce Bello of Westchester Country Day in High Point, N.C.) and stuck around after for a quick interview. Doc talked with us about his starting five never losing a playoff series, the Los Angeles Lakers, and the additions of Shaq and Jermaine O’Neal. Check out the video below.

Boston Celtics head coach Doc Rivers has reportedly bought a penthouse at Palms Place in Las Vegas making him neighbors with Jessica Simpson, Paul Stanley, and Linda Hogan. Palms Place (on the right in the photo) is the latest addition to George Maloof’s Palms casino, and boasts three styles of residence a 50,000-square-foot pool, a co-ed Turkish bath treatment, and a Sunset Tan studio.

The 520-foot tower features 442 600-square-foot studio units, 136 1,200-square-foot one-bedroom suites and 21 penthouse units that range from 2,000 to 7,000 square feet.

The price of the units rises with height. The studio apartments started at $450,000, increasing by about $7,000 per floor to $650,000. The one-bedroom units ranged from $700,000 to $1.2 million while the penthouses – on the top four floors of the tower – are priced to as much as $5 million.

I don’t know when Doc Rivers decided to pick-up a new condo, but I see where he’s going with this. Forget that he’ll obviously be renting the place for the majority of the season.. If the Celtics with the title, Doc will be in Vegas partying his ass off. If Boston loses to the Lakers, Doc will be in Sin City drowning his sorrows.

Doc Rivers purchases penthouse at Palms Place. Courtesy of the Las Vegas Review-Journal

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The Boston Celtic’s signing of Kevin Garnett was the biggest move of the NBA offseason. The three headed, championship hungry monster of Garnett, Pierce, and Allen is a nice base, but is it enough to get out of the East? You know the big three are gonna show up every night (barring injury), but what about the rest of the cast? Eddie House, James Posey, Scot Pollard, and Brian Scalibrine are the other vets on the team, unproven Rajon Rondo’s gonna be in charge of the offense, rookies Glen Davis, Jackie Manuel, and Brandon Wallace can’t be counted on yet, and, there always Doc.

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Too bad coach doesn’t handle the games like he does his practices. Doc’s seat is gonna get hot quick if the Celts get off to a slow start… Even more so because of Larry Brown circling the arena.

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