From espn.com's Chris Sheridan:
Confidence is one of the things that define a champion.
And Rivers didn't just get his team to keep its poise when it needed some calming; he also provided the Celtics with some confidence afterward that they never saw coming.
Gathering the Celtics in the victorious locker room, he told them to take the day off and study their scouting books on Orlando.
The players were perplexed: "Scouting books? What scouting books?"
"The ones in your cars," Rivers replied.
Turns out Rivers had sent a team employee to each of the players' cars during the game to drop off a scouting book in each vehicle.
That is the bold kind of stuff that champions do, and the Celtics lived up to their pedigree in ending one of the most memorable playoff series we've seen in any round in NBA history.
