Doc Rivers pays emotional tribute to Bob Love

Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers said NBA legend Bob Love, who passed away on Monday, 'epitomised Chicago'

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00:00Before we start, I wanted to mention about Bob Love, what I'll get emotional.

00:06He was a big guy in my life, Sam, you know that really an impressive guy.

00:14I think people remember Bob from basketball, and I really don't.

00:19You know, he was a great basketball player, but I met him when I was young in high school,

00:25young.

00:26And I don't know if you knew about Bob, but he had a stuttering problem now severe.

00:33And remember him talking to me and really struggling doing it.

00:38And I thought how courageous that is, that an NBA player would speak to a bunch of kids

00:45is that a park that he was that I want to say it was in Maywood, but I know it wasn't.

00:50I don't know where I was at.

00:52But it was just so impressive to me and for whatever reason, Bob took a liking to me.

00:59You know, he would give me a shoes, you know, through high school and just as a powerful

01:05guy in a city, tough guy like I think he epitomized Chicago in a lot of ways with his toughness

01:12and how we grew up Isaiah and Mark Aguirre and and all of us like Bob was our guy.