Celtics coach Doc Rivers was asked recently in an interview with WEEI in Boston whether he's given any thought to rumors that Heat president Pat Riley wants him to coach the team in the near future.

"No, I really don't have any thoughts about that. As far as I'm concerned, I'm a Celtic and I plan on being that for a long time, as long as I'm coaching," Rivers said.

Rivers was then asked why it takes so long to get a trio of players such as LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to play together cohesively.

"Well, I think a better analogy is the Olympics. I think the All-Star team is a bad one, because the other team doesn't play any defense in the All-Star game. Both teams are very cooperative as far as letting each other score. But the Olympics, when you think about it guys, we struggle over the years in the Olympics, because we haven't had a lot of time together," Rivers said.

"It just takes time, and what I found with our group when we first had it, it's the stars that take time. The role players are the role players; they're always going to be role players, if you know what I'm saying. The stars almost collide, in some ways, to be role players. And instead of being who they are, they're not worried about getting in each other's way. And it just takes time for each guy to get their rhythm. You know at some point the shooter's going to get it, you know they're going to roll off a long screen and win at some point, and they're going to be a team that will pass Orlando, Chicago and Atlanta. We're going to have to deal with it, we know that."