"This wasn't training camp, but it had to do.

Doc Rivers stood at the end of the floor at a Boys & Girls Club gym in Dorchester yesterday, and watched young kids scramble to turn over small orange cones.

Beyond the occasional blind walkthrough with his coaching staff, this fitness clinic on behalf of the Celtics and healthcare leader Covidien is about as much court time as the Celtics coach has logged in the last three months.

But there is a silver lining.

"It's like I was telling (Celtics president) Danny (Ainge)," he said. "The blessing of this is that I'm nowhere near ready to not do this. I miss it. So there's some good things to this, too.""