The BroadCast | Seth Curry Talks Trade, Perseverance, and Doc Rivers

from outside the arc. Steph, of course, is a global superstar, but Seth has carved out his own reputation for himself over the past couple of years, grinding from the G League to become one of the most lethal perimeter shooters in the sport. You gotta believe in yourself. I'm believing your skills. I had to earn it every step of a way. I definitely appreciate them of my journey. Hopefully it just leading into a long career and they have

a lot of success. I'm Brian Seltzer and on this episode of the broadcast, Lauren Rosen and I chat with one of the seventy sixers huge Draft Night pickups, Seth Curry. The seventy Sixers new they needed shooting this offseason, and man Daryl Morey did not waste any time getting some, did he Draft Night? About halfway through bag you get the notification on your phone from WOJ Daryl Morey doing a deal with the Dallas Mavericks and the Sixers landed

Seth Curry. How awesome was that? And it's awesome for a lot of reasons. Great kid, great story. We know the connection with Doc Rivers, which we'll hear about more of shortly. But these numbers are just off the charts and exactly the type of numbers the seventy Sixers need from a player to add to their team. Seth Curry ranked third in the NBA last season and three point percentage overall forty five point three percent. After January first, he led the NBA by shooting at a cool fifty

percent clip even from outside the arc. Insane and a top it all off. Seth Curry the leader among all active players from three point territory at forty four point three percent for his career. That is a pretty good weapon to have in any context, but certainly with the way the seventy Sixers are built, and it's a pleasure to now welcome Seth Curry to the pot. Seth, how are you feeling about all this? What have you made of this activity in this development? I'm excited man, excited.

It's another good, good basketball opportunity for me, coming from a place that was a good fifth in my game and up becoming team that got better last year. But it's like this might be even better fit playing with guys like Ben and Joel and the new coaching staff and new front office. Just kind of a changing mentality, changing regime, but still centered around those two guys. So my just I'm looking forward to come in and trying

to help this organization is teaming whichever way possible. You mentioned last week you were on a golf trip and last week you were also traded to the Sixers. Can you take us through the moment that you found out and like what you were up to and how it felt to get that news. Yeah, I was on the gulp, sure of my family, um actually the country in Mexico. But yeah, man, I kind of heard some rumblings over the past few days. Just I know my name is

a lot of talks. I know um Alas feel like a lot of a lot of trade value out there, just coming off the season I had, and I feel like if they want to shake up their roster, I feel like UM just me to be the best way to do it, so I was kind of preparing myself if it did happen, but um, I wanted to be to a good place, and once I found out it was Philly was I was definitely excited about it. Like I said, it's a good give a good fifth for

my game, and I'm looking forward to it. I know it's stale to ask you questions like this, but they have to be asked. When did you hear from Doc over the course of that process. Yeah, he called me right after it officially went down and just let me, asked me how I was feeling about it, and just told me he was excited to have me and and how he thinks quickly, how he thought I could fit into the team and my role would be and um,

just a quick convo. But uh, I mean, it's gonna be interesting to play for him, and I'm looking forward to it because the one thing he said right off the bat when we spoke to him on draft night was like, yes, this guy is my southern law, but he's a great basketball player as well. And even listening to talk about it in the media session you did with reporters, it sounds like you're taking a very matter of fact business as usual approach to a very rare

but also special dynamic. Yeah, I mean that's the only way to go about in the day. It's I mean, it's a business, and I mean he wouldn't have brought me in, and that organization wouldn't have brought me in. Uh Darrow and those guys if they didn't feel after how the team win. So Michael job going in and just build on that, trust him and and do whatever I can to help you guys get better. And um so the father father on the laws on a lot of dynamic is gone do what it does. But my

first goal is every day is to win basketball. Games don't matter no matter what happens. So when you spoke to reporters earlier, something that struck me most was the way that you talked about your story and the unconventional

way that you got to where you are today. I don't usually talk about my own background in these types of things, but for your reference, I was a duke right after you for four years, and I know how different it is when you're a prospect like you said, that's highly touted, that's going to get drafted for a second third overall, no matter what versus the guys that stay there for a while and work really hard to maybe get an opportunity to go play in the league.

And I don't think that's a dynamic that we talk about that often. So if you could tell us what it was like for you to go to a school like Duke and have success there, but then to go undrafted and have to work your way back up to a prominent position. If you could just take us through what that process is like, I think people would really like to hear about it. Yeah, I mean it's about, first of all, you gotta believe in yourself and believe

your skills. I mean, no matter what s Bahn ever, just getting um, I getting the opportunity right away, like you said, getting not getting drafted, like I had to earn it every every step of the way, um and earned a high school cool at, earning my respect of college and had earned the right to get the opportunity

to earn in the NBA. So um, I mean, like I said, I definitely appreciative of my journey and I wouldn't have it any other way because I think I feel like it just prepared me for how my career is going. As far as just being able to adapt to different different circumstances and play my role to the best of my ability, and hopefully it just leads me to a long career and have a lot of success.

How do you feel like your time that you spent in the G League helped inform the player that you are today, because that's a grind, Like what was that like and what kept you motivated to keep going and get ultimately to the league? Yeah. One thing I know is just about the G League and being there is you got to really love the game to make it. I feel like it's it's not the glamorous life style. It's not nobody really you can have a great game and nobody really cares about it as far as going

on Twitter and social media or fans that much. It's just about really knowing yourself and knowing how you played. You played well, played bad, and and and you gotta love the grind of the traveling and stepping on the floor every night. So it prepared me in that sense of really enjoying the to play the game and the

work on my game every day. And um, it also just gave me some good reps as far as just getting the basketball, learning different parts of my game and being able to grow as far as playing point guard a lot in the G League, and and like I said, being a being a versus the player that can play on it off the ball. It's an interesting point you bring up because I feel like development League's not even saying necessarily in basketball, but this could be true for

other sports like baseball. It could either crush you because you realize you don't have what it takes to stick it out, or you're like, I kind of gotta get out your first. I believe in myself, and I gotta keep doing what I gotta do to get out. And going back to what Lauren said, I think it's also important to note that you didn't start a duke. You finished your last three years there, but you were at

Liberty as well. Was there ever a point, even once you got a few opportunities in the NBA, and I'm talking like the Memphis, Cleveland, Phoenix, Sacramento period, we were like this might not work out. Did that thought ever creep into your head like being as far as being a mainstay, recognizable player in the NBA. Absolutely absolutely. I mean I gave myself a little window of getting that opportunity to stick in the NBA, and then I would come to go of a Caesar and going a different route.

But I mean, I always knew I could play an aby. I know I was, and I was good enough, but I can't control whether I get the opportunity to show it or not. So I think I was just trying to make the most of every opportunity I had playing in front of people in the G League, just focus

on a game better every day. And I was having fun because I was I was getting to play a lot of minute down there and and just waited my opportunity, and when it finally came U, I'm happy I was able to to make the most of it it and stick. So fast forward now, and not only are you one of the consistent faces of this week, someone that people know as a reliable, especially shooter, but you're one of

the best statistically speaking shooters of all time. So how does that feel now to know that you put in that work. Not only did it pay off, it's paid off in like a historic type way. It's motivating just to stay there to keep it going. I mean, it feels good. I mean I always knew I could shoot the ball, and it was a good shooter, and I knew if I work hard enough to get the right

amount of shots, I'll shoot at a high clip. Maybe not as high as I as I have this far, but I mean, I know the bar I've set for myself, and I know I could be better in a lot of different areas as well. So, like I said, it's motivated me for to stay up there as far as that those rankings and and get better in other areas of my game as well. To shoot at the clip

you did. Though, once the calendar flip from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty, I think that in some ways, like if you look at Seth Curry's basketball statistics, that's one of the few good developments of the year twenty twenty. This year, it was there, there's something that that clicked for you down the stretch of the season. What were some of the things that worked for you your second time around in Dallas that you might hope see carry

over to your stint now with the Sixers. I got a little bit more comfort of in the offense, give a little bit more comfortam playing with the guys who had on the team last year. But I think somehow over the tidy of my career. It's like the second half of the Sea every season, even in Poorlan last year and the first time in Dallas, the second half or the second third after the first quarter of the year, it's like I've gotten better and figured out my role

and started shooting the ball better. So hopefully I won't start slow this year just to start off the way I'm shooting the second half of every every year of my career. But um, I think it's gonna take everybody a little bit of time to adjust the new team that we have. You spoke about both Ben and Joel when you talked to the rest of the media, and for me and Celts, we've watched these guys now both of us for a few years, pretty closely every day.

And I'm always curious as an opponent because you've only played against them to this point. As an opponent, what are your impressions of Ben and Joel and what made them impressive to you when you were up against them. I mean, they're good, They're really good. They're dominant forces physically, like no matter what you can, one guy, no matter who it is, is going to really stop them from getting the where they want to. Go and doing what

they want to do. You got to put multiple bodies in front of both of them to stop them from from scoring. So um, that's always a challenge. And whenever you load a defense up, that makes it easier for the other guys on the team to get shot. So um, I mean, it's exciting to be able to be on that team now and be able to play with them, and like my job is to come in and make life easier for him, giving them more space and help them win more games and get to that next level

and next career. As far as winning in the playoffs, I don't know about you, guys. I feel like it's always a dangerous proposition to open up the mentions or the comments, but I'm going to venture into that category here. We got some questions on our Instagram story from some

fans out there for you, Seth Timmy dot Buckling. To build on that question that Lauren just asked, you said, ask Seth if he's excited to be in pick and roll picking pop situations specifically with Joel and being I know that you reference that just there and also in your media availability as well, but just talk about that combination and what potential you see in it, see a lot of potential. There's a say, he's a dominant threat on probably the best center in the league who who

draws a lot of attention. But it's gonna allow me to get shots. But if I can come up and be aggressive, I can hopefully trace them easier shots for him as well. So I'm looking forward to to figuring out. It's kind of similar to I know, I played with DeMarcus Cousins when I was a Sacramento so similar to that as far as some of the things we've been able to do off that pick and roll and also being able to pick and pop and create play. So

looking forward to it. And also I might be able to screen on Ben and do some pick and pop on myself, so that might be something new. So I know we're gonna sort of start to wrap it up now because we don't want to take too much of your time. But something I'm very curious about is how different people in different walks of life have handled twenty twenty.

So when you look back on this year, it's coming to a close and it looks like things might be getting close to getting better for a lot of people. What are you going to remember most about this year, whether it's this trade or going back to the bubble or going back to before that, spending time on your own, like how did you stay motivated, how did you stay ready? And what are you looking forward to as we start

to turn the page. I think the main thing is just our ability to adapt and change our lifestyles to still be effective and doing what we need to do obsolutely. A lot of stuff was was changed this year. A lot of people had to step by comfort zones and figure out different ways to make impact on the world, on life, and I had to change the way I worked out and got ready for the season in the bubble, and everybody had to adapt to being in the bubble

to be able to play. So I think, um, and hopefully it's just like you say, it gets better and we can get a little bit back to normal, but things will never be the same as far as our mentalities and the way we went in our life before twenty twenty and the things that went on. So it's a lot of promise and I'm looking forward to two new things going forward. Well, put, I'm gonna throw one more Well, I'm actually gonna riff on a question that

we got on Instagram. ROLANDA. Crawford asked, how do you feel having to play for your father in law Doc Rivers? With the seventy six years we covered that, I'm gonna spin off that and I'm gonna ask you two really pointed questions. And being the father of two and a half year old twins myself, I mean, I feel like I could be at risk of answering a question like this,

What type of granddad is Doc Rivers? Is he the hovering type that I've always got a FaceTime type like what would give us a little a little background of the type of granddad Doc Rivers is? And then who is the better golfer between the two of you? I've gotten a lot. He was better than me. I was first I hit on the golf park because he was better than me for a long time over the quarantine. And I've gotten to be able to play a little bit more golf, so I actually caught up to him.

I might be a little better than him now, but we'll find out. We haven't played in a while. But as far as him being a grandfather, is a great great granddad, I mean he not the He's obviously real busy. He has a demanding job and he's all over the place, so he's not the FaceTime every day kind of guy. But when he's around he's he's very active. And my daughter, Carter loves her a granddad, so I mean he's doing

a great job. Man. She'll she'll love being around him a little bit more, he said, as much as self, he said before Seth before Callie is like, I've got Carter around now, so that's perhaps the biggest perk of all. Yeah, well, great stuff, Seth. Really appreciate you taking the time. Excited to have you as part of the seventy sixers. I know the fans are as well. Enjoy what like the holiday weekend before you got to be in town or so and get working be more day though, right to it.

Thanks so much man, best of luck. All right, some really good, wholesome stuff from Seth Curry. And as good as that story is about him playing for his father in law, the best part of this acquisition. He is an excellent basketball player with an elite skill that will no doubt help the seventy sixers. That'll do it. From this episode of the broadcast, we have a lot knock on wood coming your way in the days ahead. Starting on Monday, we're gonna launch Meet the Prospects Week here

on the broadcast. We're gonna hear from Tyrease, Maxie, and John Calipari on Monday, then on Wednesday it'll be Isaiah Joe and his college coach Eric Musselman, and will wrap things up on Friday by hearing from Paul Reid out of de Paul and his coach Dave Later. Prospect Week all next week right here on the broadcast. Do not miss it. Hope you either have or had a great Thanksgiving holiday, depending on whatever it is that you listen to this. Talk to you next time see him