Austin Rivers fired right back.
The ex-NBA player was called out by Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes in recent days.
“I just don’t wanna be in no conversation when Austin Rivers’ name is involved,” Jackson said on the “Gojo and Golic” podcast. “Why is his name even involved? I don’t even want to answer a question when his name is phrased in it. Austin Rivers is somebody not relevant nowhere.”
Host Mike Golic had asked Jackson about a statement Rivers had wrote on X about more NBA players being able to play in the NFL than vice versa.
Rivers responded on X to Jackson’s dig.
“This is so ironic considering he stays having my name in his mouth,” Rivers posted. “(I have never met this guy btw lol) The comments say it all. He’s at it again lmao!! Pour dude starving for attention. Sad sight tbh. I honestly wish him nothing but the best fr. Good God bro… grow up.”
Barnes, with whom Jackson shares their podcast “All The Smoke,” was on the “Gojo and Golic” podcast with Jackson and had previously ripped Rivers — and his father and coach Doc — as well.
Barnes was responding to an Instagram comment claiming the “Utah Jazz broke that sh–t up,” regarding the Clippers’ “Lob City” era with Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan.
Barnes was teammates with Austin — with Doc as both head coach and president of basketball operations — on the 2014-15 squad, and blames the Rivers’ duo as the reason they underachieved.
“nah Doc broke that sh–t up when he paid his son that money,” Barnes wrote in the comment.” He lost the team after that.”
Rivers signed a three-year deal worth roughly $35 million in 2016.
Doc Rivers just completed his first season as the Bucks’ coach, taking over the team midseason after they fired Adrian Griffin.