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Speaker 1: NBA has reached the midway point of this most unusual season,
Speaker 1: and what a welcome respite it is for the seventy Sixers.
Speaker 1: The Sixers close out the first half of the season
Speaker 1: with an exciting, hard fought overtime victory over Utah with
Speaker 1: a battle involving the number one seeds in the East
Speaker 1: and the West. One player who's been a tremendous new
Speaker 1: addition for the Sixers is Seth Curry. The thirty year
Speaker 1: old veteran has been through quite a few of ups
Speaker 1: and downs in his professional career, but he comes to
Speaker 1: Philadelphia in the prime of that career. He's our guest
Speaker 1: on this edition of Tom's Talks. Here's Seth Curry. First
Speaker 1: of all, thank you so much for being a part
Speaker 1: of this as we speak tonight, Sixers, And first and
Speaker 1: you take on the Utah Jazz as players, do you
Speaker 1: guys get a little more amp and it's that kind
Speaker 1: of battle or is it just an every night thing
Speaker 1: where you know you get up and you know you
Speaker 1: have to be professional and get ready for any single team.
Speaker 1: I mean for us, this has got to approach it
Speaker 1: the same way. For me, trying to take the same
Speaker 1: routeam in every game, have the same mindset, And I said,
Speaker 1: approach it the same way. I think maybe if it's
Speaker 1: like an Eastern Conference team or something like that, a
Speaker 1: little bit more built up, it might might be a
Speaker 1: little different mindset the way we get jack that pregame
Speaker 1: per se. But I mean for tonight's it's another other
Speaker 1: step in the process of the regular season, trying to
Speaker 1: get a win and position ourselves as good as possible
Speaker 1: for the for the postseason. When you reflect back on
Speaker 1: that game in Salt Lake City, which was just over
Speaker 1: a little a couple of weeks ago, how does that
Speaker 1: help you prepare for tonight. Let me, it's a different
Speaker 1: game because we didn't have Joel, So I mean we
Speaker 1: played a totally different style of basketball with Joel's now
Speaker 1: on the floor. We had a more open, open offense,
Speaker 1: and Ben was making a lot of plays, um with
Speaker 1: four guys out in the perimeter. So tonight it's gonna
Speaker 1: be more. Um, I was playing a lot through Joe well,
Speaker 1: but um, it's another good test for us to gets
Speaker 1: one of the good teams in the in the league,
Speaker 1: and we did a lot of good things in that
Speaker 1: game offensively and defensively, it was just we couldn't sustain
Speaker 1: um forty eight minutes first in the East. Are you
Speaker 1: surprised at how well you guys have done so far
Speaker 1: this year? Um? Not surprised. We got a talented team,
Speaker 1: we got a lot of a lot of pieces that
Speaker 1: fit together, and a good a good bitch that that's
Speaker 1: been good throughout most of the season. So not really
Speaker 1: surprised that the way we started. I think we could
Speaker 1: be even better position if we didn't have some of
Speaker 1: the setbacks with those a couple of weeks of missing
Speaker 1: a game for COVID and and playing with seven eight
Speaker 1: guys on the floor. But I think we're getting better
Speaker 1: as a team. But like I said, we've got a
Speaker 1: lot of talent, and it's just it's just a weird
Speaker 1: year that everybody's dealing with. So UM, you gotta just
Speaker 1: approach it every day the same and try to get better.
Speaker 1: The season goes as long as even when you have
Speaker 1: stretches with we win we win games, or have stretches
Speaker 1: when we lose games. You gotta approach the same way.
Speaker 1: You're this phase your career. To me, it seems like
Speaker 1: the Sixers got you right in the prime of your
Speaker 1: career and you certainly had your you know, your struggles
Speaker 1: in terms you're going down to the G League, the
Speaker 1: D League and not. But do you feel like you're
Speaker 1: playing the best basketball of your career right now? I
Speaker 1: think I'm the best, Yeah, the best player I've ever been.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm right now. I'm not playing as good.
Speaker 1: I just think my body's not in the right shape
Speaker 1: that Um it was earlier in the season. Um coming
Speaker 1: back and missing those ten days COVID and trying to
Speaker 1: get back in rhythm. But early in the season, I
Speaker 1: think I was in the best playing the best basketball
Speaker 1: our career. I'm trying to get back to that sense.
Speaker 1: And um, like, that's a long season and I've got
Speaker 1: better over my career, and I'm trying to get my
Speaker 1: body in my mind and everything in shape to be
Speaker 1: the best I could possibly become postseason and try to
Speaker 1: make a long run. And having said that, here we go,
Speaker 1: with a big break coming up. In years past, you
Speaker 1: might be thinking about a big Karen ber vacation. What
Speaker 1: is the plan? I'm sure rest and recuperation are tops
Speaker 1: of your list right there. Yeah, trying to get away
Speaker 1: with the family and relax and try to get my
Speaker 1: mind away from the game a little bit, have a
Speaker 1: few nagging injuries, try to use this time to rehab
Speaker 1: and get over those injuries. But I think the main
Speaker 1: part is just getting you mentally, just getting recharged and refocused,
Speaker 1: because the second half of the season is gonna be
Speaker 1: a grind. I mean just looking at that schedule, a
Speaker 1: lot of back to backs, a lot of long world trips,
Speaker 1: So you got to take advantage of these these ten
Speaker 1: however many days, seven ten days whatever. So, And I
Speaker 1: don't know how comfortably you feel about this, but like
Speaker 1: would you say, there certainly are some lingering after effects
Speaker 1: physically from having COVID nineteen. Yeah, I've had something for sure.
Speaker 1: I've talked about it to me in the past few weeks.
Speaker 1: But um, I didn't get really sick throughout the had
Speaker 1: like a la hole and felt like when I actually
Speaker 1: had COVID, But um, coming out of it to dealing
Speaker 1: with some just some lack of energy and trying everybody
Speaker 1: as much as possible and trying to to be patient
Speaker 1: with myself and know it's not going to be a
Speaker 1: one month just get over the process, just gradually working
Speaker 1: on my body, working on my mind, and getting back
Speaker 1: in shape. So, like I said, towards hopefully towards the
Speaker 1: end of the season, I'm I'm at my best. What
Speaker 1: did that feel like when you were in there, Brooklyn?
Speaker 1: You're you're not playing the game, You're sitting there with
Speaker 1: your teammates and street clothes and you get that tap
Speaker 1: on the shoulder after everything you've been through and the
Speaker 1: precautions and the testing and you know, everything that you
Speaker 1: guys have put into this to find out, Hey, it
Speaker 1: looks like you tested positive. You have the coronavirus. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't really believe it at first. I
Speaker 1: thought it was like maybe a false positive or something
Speaker 1: because I was doing everything they asked us to do.
Speaker 1: I wasn't out per se, just around a lot of
Speaker 1: el So I still don't know how I was able
Speaker 1: to get the virus. But from then I just then
Speaker 1: my ten days quarantine and try to listen to the
Speaker 1: doctors and our trainers and get back integrate what the
Speaker 1: team is as easy as possible. Let's go back a
Speaker 1: little bit. As I said that your time in the
Speaker 1: at the time, the D League, the Developmental League now
Speaker 1: the G League. Because you were with Erie and Santa Cruz,
Speaker 1: you'd get the call up and then they wouldn't pick
Speaker 1: up the second day. I mean that you the perseverance
Speaker 1: that you showed and just to keep on trucking through
Speaker 1: all that. Wow, that must have been incredible. Tell us
Speaker 1: a little bit more about that from your perspective, It
Speaker 1: was just the main thing was the process of believing
Speaker 1: in yourself, knowing that I mean, if you get the
Speaker 1: opportunity at the NBA level, I feel like I was
Speaker 1: good enough to make it, to make our career out
Speaker 1: of it, and it's just about matter being patient and
Speaker 1: getting better. But I was in Gue. I was enjoying
Speaker 1: it because I was getting played forty forty five minutes
Speaker 1: a game, work on my game instead of being one
Speaker 1: of the younger guys on an NBA bench not getting
Speaker 1: a lot of minutes. So um, I embraced it. I
Speaker 1: enjoyed um getting those NBA reps in the NBA system
Speaker 1: and I think get it paid off, just getting getting
Speaker 1: to understand my game at this level. And and like
Speaker 1: I said, not not sitting away on the bench, but
Speaker 1: actually getting game reps, and then after you know if
Speaker 1: you will graduating to the NBA, you come up with
Speaker 1: this broken leg. That must have been a crush it blow.
Speaker 1: Talk about that a little bit in terms of fighting
Speaker 1: through that. Yeah, I was frustrating. I had to plug
Speaker 1: out a great season and Dallas the year before, and um,
Speaker 1: I was hoping, hoping to build on that going to
Speaker 1: the next season. But like I said, I had a
Speaker 1: stress fraction of my leg missed the entire season. So
Speaker 1: it's a little set back. But I'm saying I had
Speaker 1: a similar injury in college, so I knew I would
Speaker 1: be able to come back from it, just it's a
Speaker 1: long process if it doesn't heal right away. So um,
Speaker 1: there's another instance of having a setback, having to persevere
Speaker 1: and and just embrace the rehab process, keep my skills
Speaker 1: sharp and s wait for the next chance to get
Speaker 1: back out there on the court. And part of that
Speaker 1: next opportunity was in Portland where you guys make the playoffs,
Speaker 1: you go to the Western Conference Finals and right across
Speaker 1: from you as your brother and you guys play the Warriors.
Speaker 1: That must have been an incredible kind of a full
Speaker 1: circle moment. I would think in terms of playing against
Speaker 1: death in Golden State. Yeah, that was a lot of fun,
Speaker 1: means a lot of memories that will remember for a
Speaker 1: long time as a family's being able to watch this
Speaker 1: at the biggest stage in the Western Conference Finals, like
Speaker 1: you said, but throughout that year, I learned them most
Speaker 1: about myself, just like I said, playing at the highest
Speaker 1: level of having some good moments in the in the
Speaker 1: playoffs and helping the team get to the Western Conference finals.
Speaker 1: And that was a great year, I say, just getting
Speaker 1: better as a player and um and integrate to that
Speaker 1: team and making a splash. Speaking of your family and
Speaker 1: the conference finals, let me take you back into the
Speaker 1: way back machine for you twenty years ago. You're a
Speaker 1: ten year old boy. You're living in Toronto, your father's
Speaker 1: on the Raptors, and you play the seventy sixers in
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference semifinals. Your dad was actually the inbound
Speaker 1: pastor on that famous play where Vince Carter caught it
Speaker 1: and shot it. What do you remember about those playoffs
Speaker 1: as a fan and you know, rooting for the Raptors. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was young. I mean I remember I remember some
Speaker 1: of it. I remember just watching events and a I
Speaker 1: go at it fifty point games. I remember they were
Speaker 1: doing some some crazy things, don't that series. But I
Speaker 1: remember actually one the good wanting to travel to affiliate
Speaker 1: it to watch that last game, but my parents wouldn't
Speaker 1: let us go. And I think my dad hits in
Speaker 1: a couple of Big three late in that game to
Speaker 1: actually bring the Raptors back close before, like you said,
Speaker 1: being an inbound passive events on that game, on that
Speaker 1: last shot of the game. But I mean that those
Speaker 1: are you know, that was my dad's last actual NBA games,
Speaker 1: So um, that was some last lasting memories that that
Speaker 1: was some good childhood thanks to remember. And then one
Speaker 1: of my other recollections from that series with at the
Speaker 1: then Eric Canada Center, you and your brother Stephan would
Speaker 1: shoot around at the forty five and for our listeners,
Speaker 1: that's like the players go in the locker room and
Speaker 1: most of the times the court is empty and the
Speaker 1: two young Curry guys are out there and you were
Speaker 1: literally wallowing the crowd. First of all, the crowd in
Speaker 1: Toronto was just exceptional and nineteen thousand and eight hundred
Speaker 1: and on every little shot, this hierarch not little shot,
Speaker 1: hiarching shot, the literally ooh and ah, that had to
Speaker 1: be neat to go out there. Do you remember that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember, like yesterday. It was a lot of fun
Speaker 1: times with me and Steph. Um. They used to let
Speaker 1: us run around the entire arena do whatever. We weren't
Speaker 1: really in like you said, before the game started, they
Speaker 1: used to let us on the court in front of
Speaker 1: half the crowd will probably be filled by them. And
Speaker 1: like you said, they were we were running around throwing
Speaker 1: up threes on the court away for the team to
Speaker 1: come out and warm up. But um, I was just
Speaker 1: cool memories of us running around and having a small,
Speaker 1: a nice little audience. And I'm just getting used to
Speaker 1: NBA arena and just have a fine scaest case. That
Speaker 1: was awesome. And lo and behold, you guys are both
Speaker 1: in the NBA. You know, I've gotten to know your
Speaker 1: dad a little bit over the years, but just as
Speaker 1: primarily fellow broadcasters and just an exceptional mom. And i'd
Speaker 1: not met your mom's son you but you know, in fact,
Speaker 1: one time I borrowed your dad to try to help them,
Speaker 1: you know, put or pars out a little bit discipline
Speaker 1: to my son. They were strict with you. You went
Speaker 1: to Charlotte Christian and you were you know an academics
Speaker 1: were so emphasized, and that was that came first. Both
Speaker 1: your parents were college athletes and you had to get
Speaker 1: your school work done before there was extracurriculars like basketball. Correct. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my mom was. Mom was a let me many school principal,
Speaker 1: so she was definitely our priorities were or school, family
Speaker 1: and basketball after that. So um, like said, she had
Speaker 1: us in line in order. And if we mean, take
Speaker 1: care of our our housework and our academics first, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna be able to be on the floor doing
Speaker 1: we'd love to do the most something. Um means my
Speaker 1: mom uh is the one who really raised us and
Speaker 1: taught us our morels and ideas and and it's greatly
Speaker 1: responsible for the for the man we are today. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: So your mother was a volleyball player for Junior Tech.
Speaker 1: Your sister played volleyball at Elon, Your wife was a
Speaker 1: volleyball player. That women's volleyball is a big part of
Speaker 1: you guys' life, right, Yeah, it is, it is. Um
Speaker 1: My mom is is a huge athlete, very competitive and
Speaker 1: like to my my wife is the same way. So
Speaker 1: hopefully my daughter can get instance sports and she grows
Speaker 1: older and Doc wanted to play, actually wanted to play
Speaker 1: golf and tennis. So let's see what happens. Well, those
Speaker 1: are sports for a lifetime, that's for sure, in terms
Speaker 1: of golf and tennis. And speaking of coach rivers and
Speaker 1: call of your wife, did you have to ask Doc
Speaker 1: for for your wife's hand in marriage? I did, I did.
Speaker 1: I went through the whole the old nine yard, asking
Speaker 1: him make sure everything was good. And um, he's been
Speaker 1: very welcome from from day one and welcome into the family,
Speaker 1: um pretty smoothly. So it's been a great, great times
Speaker 1: getting to know them as a family in and being
Speaker 1: able to work with him and ship and been good. So.
Speaker 1: But it's got to be a little unusual to look
Speaker 1: across the huddle and see your father in law. Right,
Speaker 1: it's a little a little way the first, a little
Speaker 1: way at first, but I mean after the first couple
Speaker 1: of days, Um, it's like any other coach player relationship.
Speaker 1: He gets on me, coaching me the right way, and
Speaker 1: we're trying to come in and get the job done.
Speaker 1: So we're having fun while we're doing it. But I
Speaker 1: don't think it's any any out of usual. I think
Speaker 1: he had it as hard as he had as he
Speaker 1: could as he could coaching his son in Austin in
Speaker 1: LA for a few years. So this is probably a
Speaker 1: walking apartform circle back to six Ers basketball. Then we'll
Speaker 1: let you go, and again I appreciate it, but you've
Speaker 1: had a lot of two man game action Withinbad obviously
Speaker 1: on those dhos and the perimeter, and I would imagine
Speaker 1: there's still quite a ceiling there for you guys. That
Speaker 1: must be a pretty neat thing to be in an
Speaker 1: action Withinbad and all of the possibilities that root off
Speaker 1: of that. It's a lot of fun. I think we're
Speaker 1: growing as the year goes along, getting better at figuring
Speaker 1: out different reads and doing handoffs, picking rolls, pops rolls,
Speaker 1: me trying to lose Max and where I can actually
Speaker 1: screen for him White's handling the ball. So working a
Speaker 1: lot of different things, and that's just another element of
Speaker 1: office that we have to have in a half court.
Speaker 1: As the defenses getting better, as the playoffs come along,
Speaker 1: we have to get better at a half court execut
Speaker 1: And I'm having a big who can draw a lot
Speaker 1: of attention and give me shots, but also uh finished
Speaker 1: when he when he pops short rolls, rolls all into
Speaker 1: the round. Um, it's endless options, like you said, so
Speaker 1: that's something we really have to mask us. We had
Speaker 1: to head along in the season and you've got the
Speaker 1: float game. You're a way more than some people might think.
Speaker 1: You're just to catch a shoot guy three point specialists.
Speaker 1: But you know you've worked on your game. But because
Speaker 1: I used to say to Kyle Korver, you possess you're
Speaker 1: one of the best three point shooters in the NBA
Speaker 1: and for that matter, in the world. That's a world
Speaker 1: class skill. It's like a superpower. And again you've worked
Speaker 1: a lot at it over the years. But you know
Speaker 1: in the NBA they say you gotta have one thing,
Speaker 1: and if that's your one thing, that's a pretty special trick.
Speaker 1: You must be proud of that. Yeah, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's the basis of my tire game. As you said, Man,
Speaker 1: I gotta be able to knock the out shots when
Speaker 1: I open, when I'm open, and can get my shot
Speaker 1: off at the three. That's that's why I pride myself
Speaker 1: on its shooting an eye except at a big point line.
Speaker 1: But um, at my side of being six two, I'm
Speaker 1: not six seven six say like Corver, guys like that
Speaker 1: who can just shoot over most people, So I gotta,
Speaker 1: um let get people all balance or fly me at
Speaker 1: the deep one line. I gotta ask some different elements
Speaker 1: in my game as far as um side steps, pull ups, floaters,
Speaker 1: and making plays off the dribble to be a dynamic
Speaker 1: guard and do more than just spot up. So um,
Speaker 1: that's That's something I've really worked on throughout my career
Speaker 1: and it's been paying off for me. And last thing,
Speaker 1: but to be in the NBA with your brother who's
Speaker 1: become one of the most famous basketball players in the
Speaker 1: world unparallel, I want to say, unparalleled success, but certainly
Speaker 1: with his his skill sets and to have each other
Speaker 1: and to have those dreams as kids and now to
Speaker 1: have them materialized, that must be very special. What's that?
Speaker 1: What's that been like? I's been great. I've been great
Speaker 1: to not only just uh learn from him and and
Speaker 1: be around him, but just watch his career grows as
Speaker 1: he's going on from high school to college and now
Speaker 1: seeing where he's at and how how better, how much
Speaker 1: hard hard work he's put in to improve his game
Speaker 1: and seeing that payoff has been great. But um, he
Speaker 1: said to be able to pick his brain, to watch
Speaker 1: his his his struggles and his experiences and learn from
Speaker 1: him and applying to my actual game has helped me
Speaker 1: a lot throughout my career. So, um, trying to take
Speaker 1: advantage of that relationship and as much as I can
Speaker 1: for me personally, but also just be a fan and
Speaker 1: a brother in and I'm proud of everything he's accomplished
Speaker 1: as well, without a doubt when you think back to
Speaker 1: that slight young player from Davidson into what he's grown into,
Speaker 1: be like an international star. That's an amazing journey, isn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, it's hard to believe in time's kind of
Speaker 1: gotten used to it. But um, I mean it's a
Speaker 1: special journey, special story, and I mean he's he's earned it,
Speaker 1: all right. Except well, thank you so much. We appreciate it,
Speaker 1: Good luck, enjoy your break, stay well, which has a
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