Rivers collide: Doc's Clippers acquire Austin to form NBA's first father-son duo

When Rivers collide, weird stuff goes down, and it's about to happen in Los Angeles.

In the most nepotastic of NBA occurrences, Clippers president of basketball operations Doc Rivers has acquired son Austin Rivers to aid a makeshift bench on which the dad also serves as coach, according to RealGM's Shams Charania and confirmed by the Boston Herald's Mark Murphy.

The move marks the first father-son/player-coach relationship in the league's history, and that's where things get weird. In 2012, when Doc was still coaching the Celtics and Austin was dropping down the draft board as a Duke freshman, the father regularly faced questions about Boston potentially drafting his son. The responses were generally deflective, mostly jokes about his wife complaining about playing time.

In the end, Rivers conceded to WEEI's Dennis & Callahan Morning Show in March of that year, "I would love the opportunity, I guess. It would be uncomfortable. I just think that would be a strange thing to do. Having that said that, I wouldn’€™t mind. He can score, and I think that would be great for us."