“I had a red flag, and I didn’t know what it was,” Rivers said of falling to the 31st pick in the 1983 draft. “Michael Finley had a red flag. He was a great player at Wisconsin, something happened his senior year and suddenly he has one. There’s so many of those guys. Every year there’s a red flag guy who turns out to be a pretty good guy.

“We were fortunate this year that Jared fell to us. If Jared had come out the year before, he would have been (No.) 2 or 3 in the draft. Instead he fell all the way to us. I think it was good for Jared as well. In every draft there are guys who do fall, and it can be for 1,000 reasons.

via Mark Murphy of the Boston Herald