Doc Rivers is being enshrined in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame this weekend. If you looked at the internet and social media over the past 15 years, you’d never know Rivers was a Hall of Fame coach.He has been the target of memes, jokes and commentary about historic collapses in the NBA playoffs. His quotes have been picked apart. His strategy has been dissected. His legacy has been tarnished time and time again by fans, pundits and even his own players. He has been the butt of the joke more often than he’s been the target of coaching praise.With all that, you’d never know that, since the 2010-11 season, Rivers has the most coaching wins in the NBA. More than Gregg Popovich (676). More than Steve Kerr (604). More than Rick Carlisle (626). Even more than Erik Spoelstra (740). Rivers has 744 victories since 2010-11 while coaching fewer games (1,231) than Spoelstra (1,277) and Carlisle (1,279). Rivers is the winningest coach of the social media era … in the regular season.The playoffs have been an entirely different scenario, and they are primarily where Rivers has drawn the most ridicule. But he won a championship with the Boston Celtics in 2008 and was largely credited with bringing that group together under the “ubuntu” mantra — the idea of “I am because we are,” and it helped fuel the focus of that Celtics team led by Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen. He helped bring the Clippers from a consistent punchline in the standings to regular-season successes. And he was even part of getting Donald Sterling out of the league.Rivers’ career coaching the Orlando Magic (1999-2004), Celtics (2004-2013), Clippers (2013-2020), Philadelphia 76ers (2020-23) and Milwaukee Bucks (2023-26) earned him a place on the league’s top 15 coaches of all-time list a couple of years ago, and he’s had phenomenal success most coaches can only dream of having. Only five coaches in NBA history have more victories than Rivers’ 1,194 regular-season wins. Only Popovich (1,390), Don Nelson (1,335), Lenny Wilkens (1,332), Jerry Sloan (1,221) and Pat Riley (1,210) have more. He’s coached the fourth-most games in league history (2,060). Among coaches with at least 1,000 games on the sidelines, Rivers has the ninth-highest regular-season win percentage (58.0 percent).A former staffer under Rivers said that he doesn’t feel Rivers gets as much credit as he should for his offensive creativity with X’s and O’s.“I used to look at his play designs and think, ‘Oh, that puts the defense in a real tough spot,’” former Clippers video coordinator Mo Dakhil told The Athletic.Doc Rivers draws up a play as guard Gary Trent Jr. locks in. (Stephen Lew / Imagn Images)So why all of the jokes? Why the discounting of Rivers’ coaching legacy? Why does he feel more like a punching bag these days?