Doc Rivers tried to explain comment made by his son Austin in regards to challenging the NBA's best players.

"I don’t want to just meet LeBron, I want to destroy him on the court one day," said Austin recently.

"The way it's being portrayed is not exactly what he said," Doc said of Austin's statement. "He actually said 'I look up to all those guys but if you're on the floor with them you want to destroy them, you've got to have that mentality.' So I think he better have that mentality or he will get destroyed. I think that's good."

Doc likes that Austin has established his own identity.

"The one thing I do like about Austin is that he dismisses all that (son of an NBA coach stuff)," Doc said. "He's defiant about it. He wants to be his own player, his own person and I think that's the way he should be."