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The Boston Celtics are the hottest team in basketball right now and have the best record in the NBA, but head coach Brad Stevens is still far from satisfied. With the Celtics winners of their last 14 consecutive games after starting the season 0-2, …
Coaches are leaders. Coaches are mentors. Coaches are tacticians. Coaches are father figures. Coaches are communicators. Coaches are jokesters and woke-sters (in the cases of Steve Kerr and Gregg Popovich). Coaches are meme material (in the case of …
The NBA season is still very young, but the Boston Celtics look like the team to beat in the Eastern Conference thus far — even without Gordon Hayward. Marcus Morris, who is in his first season with the C’s, thinks that has a lot to do …
Kyrie Irving seems to be happy in his first year with the Boston Celtics. His team is off to a 6-2 start, and Irving’s statistics are pretty similar to his career averages with the Cavaliers. Irving joined UConn women’s basketball coach …
As he begins to recover from the devastating leg injury that he suffered on opening night, Gordon Hayward is proving that ball is truly life. Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens shared a cool story on Monday about Hayward’s recovery, per …
In the wake of the devastating injury to All-Star forward Gordon Hayward on opening night of the NBA season, Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens is turning towards a fellow Eastern Conference coach who has been there before. Speaking with …
A teeny-tiny little NBA trade went down this week, if you haven’t heard. The Celtics and Cavaliers, the East’s two best teams, flipped their starting point guards. Yes, Isaiah Thomas and Kyrie Irving are changing homes. In the deal, …
The Boston Celtics team we see next season is going to look a lot different from the one that reached the Eastern Conference Finals last year, and head coach Brad Stevens has a lot of work to do to build chemistry with a new group. But first, he must …
Boston Celtics coach Brad Stevens had to know the tough questions would come over the team’s decision to trade Isaiah Thomas, but he may not have expected them to come from a kid. That’s what happened Wednesday, though, as Stevens had to …
The Boston Celtics’ big offseason makes it somewhat easy to forget that there are questions about Isaiah Thomas’ status. Thomas missed half of the Celtics’ playoff series against the Cleveland Cavaliers after aggravating a hip …
Brad Stevens is one of the youngest head coaches in the NBA, and it definitely shows in at least some regards. In a feature by Andy Brown of the Indianapolis Star that was published over the weekend, the Boston Celtics head coach revealed that part …
Gordon Hayward ultimately chose to sign with Celtics, but says leading up to and during the free agent process that his relationship with Brad Stevens was blown out of proportion. Leading up to the start of this year’s NBA free agency period, …
LeBron James may have had a poor Game 3 in Cleveland on Sunday night, but Brad Stevens isn’t about to criticize the 4-time MVP for the dud. James scored 11 points, added 6 rebounds and 6 assists in 45 minutes for easily his worst game of the …
Brad Stevens’ memory serves as a useful scouting tool, thank you very much. Before his Boston Celtics played the Chicago Bulls in Game 5 on Wednesday, Stevens had this funny quote Jared Weiss of CLNS Media Network when asked about game-planning …
The Boston Celtics-Chicago Bulls first-round playoff series now has even the coaches trading shots. Celtics head coach Brad Stevens took an opportunity on Monday to respond to Bulls counterpart Fred Hoiberg saying after Game 4 that Isaiah Thomas is …
Indiana’s firing of Tom Crean on Thursday has kicked off one big rumor party, but Brad Stevens is calling in a noise complaint. The Celtics head coach dismissed the idea of his interest in the Hoosiers job on Friday and reaffirmed his long-term …
