Fast-forward to today: Rivers is coaching the LA Clippers and so many years later there’s another piece of fatherly advice that pounds away in his chest, in his soul. That seed was dormant then, yet rages now. “I knew as a kid when I was going to Melrose Park and I was walking, there was a very good chance the police would pull over, stop me,” he said. “My dad would tell me: ‘Be respectful, show your hands — both of them — and talk.’ Then he said, ‘Don’t tell them your dad is a police officer, because they wouldn’t care. They don’t care. They don’t look at that, they look at you.’ And so, he also gave me ‘The Talk.’ He told me about those other cops.”