Would you play basketball for your father-in-law? Not your actual father, when you’re 10 years old in the local youth league, where the parents yell and scream from the sidelines but don’t actually know the rules. This is playing for the father of your wife at age 30.

It’s reality for Seth Curry in 2020, but he isn’t making a big deal about it.

The newest Philadelphia 76er is married to Doc Rivers’ daughter, Callie, and as such, his NBA head coach is also a family member. It’s a unique situation, but Curry doesn’t think it will affect his approach at all.

“You think about it (playing for Rivers), because obviously you’re both in the same league and it’s always a possibility,” he said on an introductory Wednesday Zoom call. “But I didn’t think it would ever happen. When you think about it and get down to it, it’s really the same thing I’ve been doing my whole career. I get in there, do my job, he’s gonna do his job to the best of his ability, and our job is to win. We have plenty of time off the floor to be a family. I don’t think it should be any different in the way we approach our business on a daily basis.”

More important than any quirky intra-organizational relationship is the fact that Curry brings to the Sixers a desperately needed skill set, which is pure shooting. Last year in Dallas he shot 45.2% from three and is the exact type of player Daryl Morey identified to complement the skills of Joel and Embiid and Ben Simmons, who command the sort of attention that allows scorers to thrive.

“A lot excites me,” said Curry about playing in this setup. “First of all, (Ben’s) a good player. You want to play with as many good players as possible and he’s one of the best guys in this league on both sides of the ball. When he gets downhill, nobody can really stay in front of him one on one, so that means you gotta bring help, and put two guys in front of him to stop him from getting a layup. That’s where guys like myself and Danny (Green) and other guys they’ve brought in can help him out by creating space for him to drive and knocking down shots when he creates plays for other people. I feel like me and him are a perfect march in the sense that he’s a bigger ball handler who can make plays and defend multiple positions and I’m a smaller scorer who spreads the floor and shoots and can score in multiple ways and can guard smaller guys. I’m looking forward to working with him.”

There’s also a big opportunity for Curry to work with Joel Embiid in more traditional half court sets, perhaps replicating some of the things JJ Redick did in his two seasons here. Redick and Embiid’s DHO game produced elite numbers and Curry has the opportunity to emulate some of those elbow and handoff looks that resulted in a lot of open shots for the veteran sniper.

“I always watch different players throughout the league and I know they did a lot of dribble hand offs and elbow action and stuff like that,” said Curry of the Embiid/Redick pairing. “I score in a bit of a different way than JJ, in terms of putting the ball on the floor a little more. Obviously we can both shoot the ball. Whatever Joel is comfortable with and whatever he used to run, I’m trying to come in and make life easier for him and Ben. I feel like my game can adapt and that’s why I’ve been able to have a successful career thus far, being able to do a lot of different things on the offensive side of the floor. Whatever position Doc and the team put me in, I feel like I can thrive in it. I’m ready to go.”

It’s true that Curry is more than just a three-point bomber. He really can do a bit of scoring at all three levels, and is a good ball handler as well, which affords him some backup point guard options.

We’ll do a more beefy film breakdown at some point, but here’s a good 2019-2020 highlight reel: