Speaker 1: This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network
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Speaker 1: all know the family name, and we certainly all know
Speaker 1: the family business. Curious Splashed down three three point. The
Speaker 1: current generation of Curries have lit the NBA on fire
Speaker 1: from outside the arc. Steph, of course, is a global superstar,
Speaker 1: but Seth has carved out his own reputation for himself
Speaker 1: over the past couple of years, grinding from the G
Speaker 1: League to become one of the most lethal perimeter shooters
Speaker 1: in the sport. You gotta believe in yourself. I'm believing
Speaker 1: your skills. I had to earn it every step of
Speaker 1: a way. I definitely appreciate them of my journey. Hopefully
Speaker 1: it just leading into a long career and they have
Speaker 1: a lot of success. I'm Brian Seltzer and on this
Speaker 1: episode of the broadcast, Lauren Rosen and I chat with
Speaker 1: one of the seventy sixers huge Draft Night pickups, Seth Curry.
Speaker 1: The seventy Sixers new they needed shooting this offseason, and
Speaker 1: man Daryl Morey did not waste any time getting some,
Speaker 1: did he Draft Night? About halfway through bag you get
Speaker 1: the notification on your phone from WOJ Daryl Morey doing
Speaker 1: a deal with the Dallas Mavericks and the Sixers landed
Speaker 1: Seth Curry. How awesome was that? And it's awesome for
Speaker 1: a lot of reasons. Great kid, great story. We know
Speaker 1: the connection with Doc Rivers, which we'll hear about more
Speaker 1: of shortly. But these numbers are just off the charts
Speaker 1: and exactly the type of numbers the seventy Sixers need
Speaker 1: from a player to add to their team. Seth Curry
Speaker 1: ranked third in the NBA last season and three point
Speaker 1: percentage overall forty five point three percent. After January first,
Speaker 1: he led the NBA by shooting at a cool fifty
Speaker 1: percent clip even from outside the arc. Insane and a
Speaker 1: top it all off. Seth Curry the leader among all
Speaker 1: active players from three point territory at forty four point
Speaker 1: three percent for his career. That is a pretty good
Speaker 1: weapon to have in any context, but certainly with the
Speaker 1: way the seventy Sixers are built, and it's a pleasure
Speaker 1: to now welcome Seth Curry to the pot. Seth, how
Speaker 1: are you feeling about all this? What have you made
Speaker 1: of this activity in this development? I'm excited man, excited.
Speaker 1: It's another good, good basketball opportunity for me, coming from
Speaker 1: a place that was a good fifth in my game
Speaker 1: and up becoming team that got better last year. But
Speaker 1: it's like this might be even better fit playing with
Speaker 1: guys like Ben and Joel and the new coaching staff
Speaker 1: and new front office. Just kind of a changing mentality,
Speaker 1: changing regime, but still centered around those two guys. So
Speaker 1: my just I'm looking forward to come in and trying
Speaker 1: to help this organization is teaming whichever way possible. You
Speaker 1: mentioned last week you were on a golf trip and
Speaker 1: last week you were also traded to the Sixers. Can
Speaker 1: you take us through the moment that you found out
Speaker 1: and like what you were up to and how it
Speaker 1: felt to get that news. Yeah, I was on the gulp,
Speaker 1: sure of my family, um actually the country in Mexico.
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, I kind of heard some rumblings over
Speaker 1: the past few days. Just I know my name is
Speaker 1: a lot of talks. I know um Alas feel like
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of trade value out there,
Speaker 1: just coming off the season I had, and I feel
Speaker 1: like if they want to shake up their roster, I
Speaker 1: feel like UM just me to be the best way
Speaker 1: to do it, so I was kind of preparing myself
Speaker 1: if it did happen, but um, I wanted to be
Speaker 1: to a good place, and once I found out it
Speaker 1: was Philly was I was definitely excited about it. Like
Speaker 1: I said, it's a good give a good fifth for
Speaker 1: my game, and I'm looking forward to it. I know
Speaker 1: it's stale to ask you questions like this, but they
Speaker 1: have to be asked. When did you hear from Doc
Speaker 1: over the course of that process. Yeah, he called me
Speaker 1: right after it officially went down and just let me,
Speaker 1: asked me how I was feeling about it, and just
Speaker 1: told me he was excited to have me and and
Speaker 1: how he thinks quickly, how he thought I could fit
Speaker 1: into the team and my role would be and um,
Speaker 1: just a quick convo. But uh, I mean, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting to play for him, and I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to it because the one thing he said right off
Speaker 1: the bat when we spoke to him on draft night
Speaker 1: was like, yes, this guy is my southern law, but
Speaker 1: he's a great basketball player as well. And even listening
Speaker 1: to talk about it in the media session you did
Speaker 1: with reporters, it sounds like you're taking a very matter
Speaker 1: of fact business as usual approach to a very rare
Speaker 1: but also special dynamic. Yeah, I mean that's the only
Speaker 1: way to go about in the day. It's I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a business, and I mean he wouldn't have brought
Speaker 1: me in, and that organization wouldn't have brought me in.
Speaker 1: Uh Darrow and those guys if they didn't feel after
Speaker 1: how the team win. So Michael job going in and
Speaker 1: just build on that, trust him and and do whatever
Speaker 1: I can to help you guys get better. And um
Speaker 1: so the father father on the laws on a lot
Speaker 1: of dynamic is gone do what it does. But my
Speaker 1: first goal is every day is to win basketball. Games
Speaker 1: don't matter no matter what happens. So when you spoke
Speaker 1: to reporters earlier, something that struck me most was the
Speaker 1: way that you talked about your story and the unconventional
Speaker 1: way that you got to where you are today. I
Speaker 1: don't usually talk about my own background in these types
Speaker 1: of things, but for your reference, I was a duke
Speaker 1: right after you for four years, and I know how
Speaker 1: different it is when you're a prospect like you said,
Speaker 1: that's highly touted, that's going to get drafted for a
Speaker 1: second third overall, no matter what versus the guys that
Speaker 1: stay there for a while and work really hard to
Speaker 1: maybe get an opportunity to go play in the league.
Speaker 1: And I don't think that's a dynamic that we talk
Speaker 1: about that often. So if you could tell us what
Speaker 1: it was like for you to go to a school
Speaker 1: like Duke and have success there, but then to go
Speaker 1: undrafted and have to work your way back up to
Speaker 1: a prominent position. If you could just take us through
Speaker 1: what that process is like, I think people would really
Speaker 1: like to hear about it. Yeah, I mean it's about,
Speaker 1: first of all, you gotta believe in yourself and believe
Speaker 1: your skills. I mean, no matter what s Bahn ever,
Speaker 1: just getting um, I getting the opportunity right away, like
Speaker 1: you said, getting not getting drafted, like I had to
Speaker 1: earn it every every step of the way, um and
Speaker 1: earned a high school cool at, earning my respect of
Speaker 1: college and had earned the right to get the opportunity
Speaker 1: to earn in the NBA. So um, I mean, like
Speaker 1: I said, I definitely appreciative of my journey and I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have it any other way because I think I
Speaker 1: feel like it just prepared me for how my career
Speaker 1: is going. As far as just being able to adapt
Speaker 1: to different different circumstances and play my role to the
Speaker 1: best of my ability, and hopefully it just leads me
Speaker 1: to a long career and have a lot of success.
Speaker 1: How do you feel like your time that you spent
Speaker 1: in the G League helped inform the player that you
Speaker 1: are today, because that's a grind, Like what was that
Speaker 1: like and what kept you motivated to keep going and
Speaker 1: get ultimately to the league? Yeah. One thing I know
Speaker 1: is just about the G League and being there is
Speaker 1: you got to really love the game to make it.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's it's not the glamorous life style.
Speaker 1: It's not nobody really you can have a great game
Speaker 1: and nobody really cares about it as far as going
Speaker 1: on Twitter and social media or fans that much. It's
Speaker 1: just about really knowing yourself and knowing how you played.
Speaker 1: You played well, played bad, and and and you gotta
Speaker 1: love the grind of the traveling and stepping on the
Speaker 1: floor every night. So it prepared me in that sense
Speaker 1: of really enjoying the to play the game and the
Speaker 1: work on my game every day. And um, it also
Speaker 1: just gave me some good reps as far as just
Speaker 1: getting the basketball, learning different parts of my game and
Speaker 1: being able to grow as far as playing point guard
Speaker 1: a lot in the G League, and and like I said,
Speaker 1: being a being a versus the player that can play
Speaker 1: on it off the ball. It's an interesting point you
Speaker 1: bring up because I feel like development League's not even
Speaker 1: saying necessarily in basketball, but this could be true for
Speaker 1: other sports like baseball. It could either crush you because
Speaker 1: you realize you don't have what it takes to stick
Speaker 1: it out, or you're like, I kind of gotta get
Speaker 1: out your first. I believe in myself, and I gotta
Speaker 1: keep doing what I gotta do to get out. And
Speaker 1: going back to what Lauren said, I think it's also
Speaker 1: important to note that you didn't start a duke. You
Speaker 1: finished your last three years there, but you were at
Speaker 1: Liberty as well. Was there ever a point, even once
Speaker 1: you got a few opportunities in the NBA, and I'm
Speaker 1: talking like the Memphis, Cleveland, Phoenix, Sacramento period, we were
Speaker 1: like this might not work out. Did that thought ever
Speaker 1: creep into your head like being as far as being
Speaker 1: a mainstay, recognizable player in the NBA. Absolutely absolutely. I
Speaker 1: mean I gave myself a little window of getting that
Speaker 1: opportunity to stick in the NBA, and then I would
Speaker 1: come to go of a Caesar and going a different route.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I always knew I could play an aby.
Speaker 1: I know I was, and I was good enough, but
Speaker 1: I can't control whether I get the opportunity to show
Speaker 1: it or not. So I think I was just trying
Speaker 1: to make the most of every opportunity I had playing
Speaker 1: in front of people in the G League, just focus
Speaker 1: on a game better every day. And I was having
Speaker 1: fun because I was I was getting to play a
Speaker 1: lot of minute down there and and just waited my opportunity,
Speaker 1: and when it finally came U, I'm happy I was
Speaker 1: able to to make the most of it it and stick.
Speaker 1: So fast forward now, and not only are you one
Speaker 1: of the consistent faces of this week, someone that people
Speaker 1: know as a reliable, especially shooter, but you're one of
Speaker 1: the best statistically speaking shooters of all time. So how
Speaker 1: does that feel now to know that you put in
Speaker 1: that work. Not only did it pay off, it's paid
Speaker 1: off in like a historic type way. It's motivating just
Speaker 1: to stay there to keep it going. I mean, it
Speaker 1: feels good. I mean I always knew I could shoot
Speaker 1: the ball, and it was a good shooter, and I
Speaker 1: knew if I work hard enough to get the right
Speaker 1: amount of shots, I'll shoot at a high clip. Maybe
Speaker 1: not as high as I as I have this far,
Speaker 1: but I mean, I know the bar I've set for myself,
Speaker 1: and I know I could be better in a lot
Speaker 1: of different areas as well. So, like I said, it's
Speaker 1: motivated me for to stay up there as far as
Speaker 1: that those rankings and and get better in other areas
Speaker 1: of my game as well. To shoot at the clip
Speaker 1: you did. Though, once the calendar flip from twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty, I think that in some ways, like
Speaker 1: if you look at Seth Curry's basketball statistics, that's one
Speaker 1: of the few good developments of the year twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: This year, it was there, there's something that that clicked
Speaker 1: for you down the stretch of the season. What were
Speaker 1: some of the things that worked for you your second
Speaker 1: time around in Dallas that you might hope see carry
Speaker 1: over to your stint now with the Sixers. I got
Speaker 1: a little bit more comfort of in the offense, give
Speaker 1: a little bit more comfortam playing with the guys who
Speaker 1: had on the team last year. But I think somehow
Speaker 1: over the tidy of my career. It's like the second
Speaker 1: half of the Sea every season, even in Poorlan last
Speaker 1: year and the first time in Dallas, the second half
Speaker 1: or the second third after the first quarter of the year,
Speaker 1: it's like I've gotten better and figured out my role
Speaker 1: and started shooting the ball better. So hopefully I won't
Speaker 1: start slow this year just to start off the way
Speaker 1: I'm shooting the second half of every every year of
Speaker 1: my career. But um, I think it's gonna take everybody
Speaker 1: a little bit of time to adjust the new team
Speaker 1: that we have. You spoke about both Ben and Joel
Speaker 1: when you talked to the rest of the media, and
Speaker 1: for me and Celts, we've watched these guys now both
Speaker 1: of us for a few years, pretty closely every day.
Speaker 1: And I'm always curious as an opponent because you've only
Speaker 1: played against them to this point. As an opponent, what
Speaker 1: are your impressions of Ben and Joel and what made
Speaker 1: them impressive to you when you were up against them.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're good, They're really good. They're dominant forces physically,
Speaker 1: like no matter what you can, one guy, no matter
Speaker 1: who it is, is going to really stop them from
Speaker 1: getting the where they want to. Go and doing what
Speaker 1: they want to do. You got to put multiple bodies
Speaker 1: in front of both of them to stop them from
Speaker 1: from scoring. So um, that's always a challenge. And whenever
Speaker 1: you load a defense up, that makes it easier for
Speaker 1: the other guys on the team to get shot. So um,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's exciting to be able to be on
Speaker 1: that team now and be able to play with them,
Speaker 1: and like my job is to come in and make
Speaker 1: life easier for him, giving them more space and help
Speaker 1: them win more games and get to that next level
Speaker 1: and next career. As far as winning in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, guys. I feel like it's
Speaker 1: always a dangerous proposition to open up the mentions or
Speaker 1: the comments, but I'm going to venture into that category here.
Speaker 1: We got some questions on our Instagram story from some
Speaker 1: fans out there for you, Seth Timmy dot Buckling. To
Speaker 1: build on that question that Lauren just asked, you said,
Speaker 1: ask Seth if he's excited to be in pick and
Speaker 1: roll picking pop situations specifically with Joel and being I
Speaker 1: know that you reference that just there and also in
Speaker 1: your media availability as well, but just talk about that
Speaker 1: combination and what potential you see in it, see a
Speaker 1: lot of potential. There's a say, he's a dominant threat
Speaker 1: on probably the best center in the league who who
Speaker 1: draws a lot of attention. But it's gonna allow me
Speaker 1: to get shots. But if I can come up and
Speaker 1: be aggressive, I can hopefully trace them easier shots for
Speaker 1: him as well. So I'm looking forward to to figuring out.
Speaker 1: It's kind of similar to I know, I played with
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Cousins when I was a Sacramento so similar to
Speaker 1: that as far as some of the things we've been
Speaker 1: able to do off that pick and roll and also
Speaker 1: being able to pick and pop and create play. So
Speaker 1: looking forward to it. And also I might be able
Speaker 1: to screen on Ben and do some pick and pop
Speaker 1: on myself, so that might be something new. So I
Speaker 1: know we're gonna sort of start to wrap it up
Speaker 1: now because we don't want to take too much of
Speaker 1: your time. But something I'm very curious about is how
Speaker 1: different people in different walks of life have handled twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: So when you look back on this year, it's coming
Speaker 1: to a close and it looks like things might be
Speaker 1: getting close to getting better for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: What are you going to remember most about this year,
Speaker 1: whether it's this trade or going back to the bubble
Speaker 1: or going back to before that, spending time on your own,
Speaker 1: like how did you stay motivated, how did you stay ready?
Speaker 1: And what are you looking forward to as we start
Speaker 1: to turn the page. I think the main thing is
Speaker 1: just our ability to adapt and change our lifestyles to
Speaker 1: still be effective and doing what we need to do obsolutely.
Speaker 1: A lot of stuff was was changed this year. A
Speaker 1: lot of people had to step by comfort zones and
Speaker 1: figure out different ways to make impact on the world,
Speaker 1: on life, and I had to change the way I
Speaker 1: worked out and got ready for the season in the bubble,
Speaker 1: and everybody had to adapt to being in the bubble
Speaker 1: to be able to play. So I think, um, and
Speaker 1: hopefully it's just like you say, it gets better and
Speaker 1: we can get a little bit back to normal, but
Speaker 1: things will never be the same as far as our
Speaker 1: mentalities and the way we went in our life before
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and the things that went on. So it's
Speaker 1: a lot of promise and I'm looking forward to two
Speaker 1: new things going forward. Well, put, I'm gonna throw one
Speaker 1: more Well, I'm actually gonna riff on a question that
Speaker 1: we got on Instagram. ROLANDA. Crawford asked, how do you
Speaker 1: feel having to play for your father in law Doc Rivers?
Speaker 1: With the seventy six years we covered that, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: spin off that and I'm gonna ask you two really
Speaker 1: pointed questions. And being the father of two and a
Speaker 1: half year old twins myself, I mean, I feel like
Speaker 1: I could be at risk of answering a question like this,
Speaker 1: What type of granddad is Doc Rivers? Is he the
Speaker 1: hovering type that I've always got a FaceTime type like
Speaker 1: what would give us a little a little background of
Speaker 1: the type of granddad Doc Rivers is? And then who
Speaker 1: is the better golfer between the two of you? I've
Speaker 1: gotten a lot. He was better than me. I was
Speaker 1: first I hit on the golf park because he was
Speaker 1: better than me for a long time over the quarantine.
Speaker 1: And I've gotten to be able to play a little
Speaker 1: bit more golf, so I actually caught up to him.
Speaker 1: I might be a little better than him now, but
Speaker 1: we'll find out. We haven't played in a while. But
Speaker 1: as far as him being a grandfather, is a great
Speaker 1: great granddad, I mean he not the He's obviously real busy.
Speaker 1: He has a demanding job and he's all over the place,
Speaker 1: so he's not the FaceTime every day kind of guy.
Speaker 1: But when he's around he's he's very active. And my daughter,
Speaker 1: Carter loves her a granddad, so I mean he's doing
Speaker 1: a great job. Man. She'll she'll love being around him
Speaker 1: a little bit more, he said, as much as self,
Speaker 1: he said before Seth before Callie is like, I've got
Speaker 1: Carter around now, so that's perhaps the biggest perk of all. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: great stuff, Seth. Really appreciate you taking the time. Excited
Speaker 1: to have you as part of the seventy sixers. I
Speaker 1: know the fans are as well. Enjoy what like the
Speaker 1: holiday weekend before you got to be in town or
Speaker 1: so and get working be more day though, right to it.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much man, best of luck. All right, some
Speaker 1: really good, wholesome stuff from Seth Curry. And as good
Speaker 1: as that story is about him playing for his father
Speaker 1: in law, the best part of this acquisition. He is
Speaker 1: an excellent basketball player with an elite skill that will
Speaker 1: no doubt help the seventy sixers. That'll do it. From
Speaker 1: this episode of the broadcast, we have a lot knock
Speaker 1: on wood coming your way in the days ahead. Starting
Speaker 1: on Monday, we're gonna launch Meet the Prospects Week here
Speaker 1: on the broadcast. We're gonna hear from Tyrease, Maxie, and
Speaker 1: John Calipari on Monday, then on Wednesday it'll be Isaiah
Speaker 1: Joe and his college coach Eric Musselman, and will wrap
Speaker 1: things up on Friday by hearing from Paul Reid out
Speaker 1: of de Paul and his coach Dave Later. Prospect Week
Speaker 1: all next week right here on the broadcast. Do not
Speaker 1: miss it. Hope you either have or had a great
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving holiday, depending on whatever it is that you listen
Speaker 1: to this. Talk to you next time see him