Austin Rivers puts Doc on that summerjam screen

[The God Poster]

Topic of Doc and Austin reminds me of this scene from Fences:

great movie. I'ma have to re watch on my lunch. Seen it in theatres when it came out .

Denzel da GOAT

 

[Elim Garak]

He shyts on doc all the time lmao.

 

[NobleDrewAli]

Disrespect the man who gave you the athleticism to play in the NBA and the name/status that's keeping yo trash azz in the league brehs

 

[Chris Cool]

Rivers or Powers?

 

[David_TheMan]

Disrespect the man who gave you the athleticism to play in the NBA and the name/status that's keeping yo trash azz in the league brehs

Disrespect the kid you had by choice by not being involved in his life at all.

 

[TheNig]

Im sure he said it in a humorous fashion (even tho Ive never seen Austin Rivers have joy or happiness) but damn man

Has to be the most miserable player in the league. Even when he was in high school, he was miserable

 

[goatmane]

Yall nikkas acting like compassion and giving your son a leg up are mutually exclusive ideas. I pray for y’all kids if you have any

Doc had the Clippers in title contention and put his reputation on the line. Rivers was a rotational player. a bit different then giving him the 12th man spot.

regardless, no reason for Austin to make this public. he's been throwing shots at him for 10 years now.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

40 and yep I'm a dinosaur...y'all gon see how much the world ain't changed as much as you'd like to think it has it hasn't....that tough love shyt is very useful

Breh I’m 41 and we have totally different views about this shyt....

 

[levitate]

Reporter asked how is Doc Rivers as a father, Austin said Doc hasn't called him since he left the Clippers and that he wouldn't even answer on the phone

Lie, brehs...

 

[NobleDrewAli]

Disrespect the kid you had by choice by not being involved in his life at all.

Do you know their situation personally? Probably not. The man was in the league and jumped into coaching, both take up a whole lot of time. I'm just saying that could've been the reason he wasn't around much. Not just because he's just this bad guy who doesn't care about his kids.

 

[David_TheMan]

Do you know their situation personally? Probably not. The man was in the league and jumped into coaching, both take up a whole lot of time. I'm just saying that could've been the reason he wasn't around much. Not just because he's just this bad guy who doesn't care about his kids.

Defending deadbets. SMH
WE know the situation because Austin is telling us.
Doc is a deadbeat father. He never spent time with his son and he doesn't care about his grandson except in the context of basketball.
He is a failure as a father and a real man.

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Thank GOD my dad provided for me AND was always around. Couldn’t have a better role model as a black male.

 

[David_TheMan]

Thank GOD my dad provided for me AND was always around. Couldn’t have a better role model as a black male.

Exactly.
This thread is showing your some of the people on this board that don't know what a father is supposed to do. I feel for them if they have children, if they are serious.

 

[NormanConnors]

I understand both sides of it. My pops wasn't one of them warm and fuzzy niiggas. He was straight up and down, always told me what time it was. As I got older I understood that he was a product of how he came up. I never knew his pops, and don't think he knew that much about him either other than that he was a barber. So he came up rough, and he was always making sure I wasn't on no foolishness. Even though he would get home late from work cause of driving trucks, we would watch games together, he'd take me to ride my bike, or play catch with me, but it definitely wasn't no warm and fuzzy constant "I love you" type situations. Ironically it wasn't until I had my oldest son that I saw that side of him. It was funny for me to watch him interact with him as a baby and see him just melt. I would be like "is this the same niigga that I grew up around?" But I never had any doubt that he loved me. I just kinda figured he could only give me what he knew. But I knew that I could give my kids more. So I think I did more in terms of being approachable while at the same time letting them know I ain't their buddy.

The homie Doc might have been the same way; I knew he grew up rough in Chicago. Maybe with him coaching in Boston and providing for his family in Orlando, he felt like he was doing his job as a parent, not really realizing that his kids needed more. Might be that Austin don't even like ball like that, it might have just been his only way of connecting with his pops on some level.

Who knows, maybe they'll wind up on that "Iyanla Fix My Life" show my wife loves to watch. That might be the one time I sit down and watch it with her.

Yep and Execellent post, I can relate. Quite a few kids grew up like this. Not all had the natural mentality/were built to figure it out like you did and thats where some of them can go left. I can tell your pops is a good dude/great dad and has his methods like mine does. Part of the whole process is for a son to learn/develop tools and be a better version of their pops anyway even if he was dad of the year. The key is to understand that the love is there first.. Im not sure if im explaining myself right but I didnt want to type too much.

 

[NobleDrewAli]

Defending deadbets. SMH
WE know the situation because Austin is telling us.
Doc is a deadbeat father. He never spent time with his son and he doesn't care about his grandson except in the context of basketball.
He is a failure as a father and a real man.

No. You know Austin's side of the situation because he's telling it. Not the complete story.