Kwame Brown will be a restricted free-agent this offseason and Doc Rivers is one person within the NBA who hasn't given up on the young player.

"I still think Kwame is going to be an excellent player," said Rivers. "You know what happens because he's been up and down, [the Wizards] are going to have to make a decision. Then, he goes somewhere else and becomes a star off your time. You put in a four-year investment, teaching him and working him. I always look at it like very few of the young guys have failed. It's like an 85 percent success rate. Going by that, I'm keeping him. With the high school kids, the big ones, not the guards, very few have not turned out to be better than good players."