Doc Rivers said his players thought the season was over following an emotional league-wide players' meeting on Wednesday.

"Oh, they want to," Rivers said when asked if his team is ready to move forward during an interview Thursday on Fox Prime Ticket. "They are really looking forward to it. Yesterday was a very difficult day though. Like their emotions were all over the place.

"They thought it was over. It was just a really tough day for all of them."

The Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers voted on perhaps not continuing the season when polled during the meeting.

"To be fair, that vote wasn't us saying, 'We don't want to play basketball,'" Landry Shamet, appearing on "The JJ Redick Podcast," said of the initial poll Wednesday night. "It was just simply a poll of what we thought was best to do. That's what came out of our team."

"Obviously things were moving really fast," Shamet added of how he didn't feel confident when he went to bed on Wednesday night. "A lot of people had to step up and try to figure out the best thing for us to do. But one thing I think we didn't fully take into account was how high emotions were, how tense the situation was and how this was really the first time we as a whole as players have been able to sit and process and think about, talk about and have really good dialogue in the bubble about all this."