Doc Rivers didn’t just secure his inaugural victory as the new head coach for Milwaukee on Saturday night in Dallas.

The Bucks’ sensational 129-117 come-from-behind triumph over the Mavericks also led to him being appointed as the coach of the Eastern Conference All-Star team, despite his recent appointment.

Although the Bucks have the second-best record in the Eastern Conference, Coach Joe Mazzulla of the Boston Celtics was ineligible to lead the All-Stars again due to already having that honor last year.

“That is ridiculously bad. It really is,” Rivers said when asked about coaching the East All-Stars. “It’s one of these quirky things. I think there should be a rule somehow that someone else does it other than me.”

“Maybe I’ll send my staff and I’ll go on vacation. I’m going to run that by (NBA commissioner) Adam Silver. Adam’s a good man. I think he’ll understand.”

On Saturday, Rivers also equaled Larry Brown for the eighth-highest number of career victories in NBA coaching history. His first chance to surpass Brown will occur on Sunday evening in Salt Lake City when the Bucks face the Utah Jazz.

Milwaukee heads into this showdown with the Jazz with promising momentum following their comeback win in Dallas after falling behind by 25 points early in the game.

“I thought it was a great win for us,” Bucks star Damian Lillard said. “We had a slow start. They came out hot. We just had to answer the call. We kept our composure, stayed with it, stayed together.”

Lillard tallied 30 points in the comeback triumph, which marked the second-largest comeback this season after Milwaukee had previously overcome a 26-point deficit against Portland.

Additionally, the Bucks received a stellar performance from Giannis Antetokounmpo, who scored 48 points, along with 10 assists and six rebounds.

Milwaukee used a 15-0 run late in the second quarter to narrow the gap to five points and then dominated the second half for an impressive road victory.

“No one panicked. I thought that was big for our team,” Rivers said. “I didn’t panic. Nobody panicked. We just kind of hung in there.”

The atmosphere is somewhat different for the Jazz, entering this matchup on a three-game losing streak and having lost six of their previous eight games.

Utah allowed Tyrese Maxey to score 51 points in their recent 127-124 defeat to the Philadelphia 76ers on Thursday. The Jazz, returning from a six-game road trip, have been inactive since then.

“We got to pay attention to all the little details,” said Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen, who scored 14 of his team-high 28 points in the fourth quarter against Philadelphia. “There’s little things in the game we can get better at and we’re going to learn from them.”

The Jazz briefly held a 120-117 lead after the Sixers had dominated most of the game, but they couldn’t maintain it towards the end.

“We got to up our awareness to what’s going on in the game,” Jazz coach Will Hardy said, “because I think that we’re fighting hard physically and, at times, we just seem a little bit mentally unavailable.”