If there’s someone more impressive in the NBA than LeBron James, who got to play with his son on the Los Angeles Lakers, it’s Doc Rivers, who not only traded for his son Austin and coached him while he was with the L.A. Clippers but also coached his son-in-law, Seth Curry, when he was with the Philadelphia 76ers.
Curiously, however, both the Clippers and 76ers ended up trading Doc’s boys, with L.A. sending Austin to the Washington Wizards in 2018 and Philly shipping Seth to the Brooklyn Nets in 2022. Both decisions were difficult, according to Doc. However, giving away Seth was a lot harder than letting go of Austin.
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“Trading Seth, I had to deal with my daughter, who had two young babies. That’s a completely different thing,” Rivers explained during an interview with Bob Costas. “The night before, because there was a rumor it was going to happen, I get a call from my daughter. ‘Listen! Are you gonna do it or not?’ And I said, ‘You know, Callie, I can’t…’ She says, ‘I’m your daughter!’ I said, ‘Well, Callie, I don’t know. I can’t…’ ‘I’m your daughter!'”
Seth was traded to the Sixers one month after Doc was hired as head coach
Doc and his ex-wife Kristen were blessed with four children. Of the four, Callie was the only girl. While her brothers followed their dad’s footsteps and played basketball, she pursued volleyball and played three years for the University of Florida before spending one season in Puerto Rico’s professional volleyball league.
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Callie was dating Paul George, but they reportedly broke up after George impregnated a stripper, whom he later married. Meanwhile, Callie hooked up with longtime family friend Seth, who was also Austin’s teammate at Duke. They got married in 2019 and had two young kids when, one month after Doc was hired as head coach of the Sixers, Seth was traded to his father-in-law’s team.
“I’ve coached my son, now I get to coach my son-in-law,”said Doc. “One of the things we wanted to do – Elton [Brand], Daryl [Morey] and I – when we got here was create as much shooting as possible around Ben [Simmons] and Joel [Embiid]. This was a no-brainer.”
Seth lost his starting job in Brooklyn and his playing time decreased
Just as Austin had the best years of his NBA career while being coached by his dad, Seth also saw the trajectory of his NBA career go up in Philly.
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After being a bench guy for most of his career, he started every game as a Sixer.
Not only did he average a career-high 34.8 minutes per game in his second season as a Sixer, but Seth also scored a personal-best 15.0 points per game during the 2021-22 campaign. But that’s when he was traded midseason, as one of the fillers in the Ben Simmons-James Harden trade.
“That was a tough one,” Doc recalled. “Well, she ended up in Brooklyn and she is the happiest ever. And for me, I can still get in my car and in 90 minutes, I can be in Brooklyn, so it turned out okay.”
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But while Doc could still easily visit his grandchildren in Brooklyn, Seth did not last long with the Nets. After watching his playing time decrease and his starting job get taken away from him, he left after his contract was done in 2023.
Meanwhile, Doc was also fired by the Sixers that summer. Seth now plays alongside brother Steph while his father-in-law just got fired again, this time by the Milwaukee Bucks.
This story was originally published by Basketball Network on Jun 1, 2026, where it first appeared in the Off The Court section. Add Basketball Network as a Preferred Source by clicking here.