Amid overlapping careers during a combined 71 NBA seasons, Doc Rivers and his son, Austin, and Dell Curry and his sons, Seth and Stephen, had spent many tense moments together.
Last May they found themselves together again. This time it was in a hospital as they awaited the birth of a baby — the daughter of Seth Curry and Rivers’ daughter, Callie.
The baby soon arrived, and seven months later so did a road trip unlike any of the other thousand-plus that Doc Rivers has taken since his rookie season in 1983. When Rivers stepped off the Clippers’ charter flight in Portland on Wednesday afternoon, he was their head coach.