Celtics hire Brad Stevens as head coach

In a fairly shocking move, the Boston Celtics announced today that they have come to an agreement with Brad Stevens to be the 17th head coach of the team.

Stevens, age 36, has served for the past six years as the head coach of Butler University men’s basketball team, never winning fewer than 22 games and leading the Bulldogs to two national championship games against Duke and Connecticut. His career win percentage is .772, including a 33-5 season in 2009-10. He was also the youngest coach to reach the Final Four since Bob Knight in 1973.

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[QUOTE]The Boston Celtics announced today that they have come to an agreement with Brad Stevens to be the 17th head coach of the team. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not announced.

Stevens, age 36, has served for the past six years as the head coach of Butler University, never winning fewer than 22 games and leading the Bulldogs to two national championship games against Duke and Connecticut. He was the youngest coach to reach the Final Four since Bob Knight in 1973.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.nba.com/celtics/news/press_release/070313-celtics-hire-brad-stevens-head-coach[/url]

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DANNY GOAT :bowdown:

GOD DAMN :mad: :banghead:

I feel bad for Celtics fans. Brad's teams are really tough to watch.

I was hoping for someone more like Alvin Gentry :( Last time the Celtics hired a college coach it was Rick Pitino, and he was terrible.

What I fine very impressive is how not one word of this was leaked and that this hiring is coming out of nowhere. I knew that the Nets were going to hire Jason Kidd one week before they actually hired him. Props to the Celtics for not leaking anything.

[QUOTE=Shade8780]I was hoping for someone more like Alvin Gentry :( Last time the Celtics hired a college coach it was Rick Pitino, and he was terrible.[/QUOTE]

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I mean really this is just tanking, although Gentry would be trying to win games, so he's kind of like that dude.

:roll:

So Ainge hires an almost winning coach?:confusedshrug:

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He looks like he's still in college..

more rainy days for Antwan Walker

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Can't even see him coaching NBA players.

Damn. From Butler University to the Celtics. Quite the leap.

what a disaster. How do you expect grown men to respect him. He is 36 year old coach of a mid major program. Yes, he made it to 2 straight championship games, but what are they thinking.

Danny ain't messing around with this tank. He's going full-f[B]u[/B]cking-on.

So, Celtics will tank hard.

[QUOTE=The Big Skinny]what a disaster. How do you expect grown men to respect him. He is 36 year old coach of a mid major program. Yes, he made it to 2 straight championship games, but what are they thinking.[/QUOTE]
Players will respect you if you know the game.

Last time the Celtics tanked (they were trying to get Timmay), they got Chauncey Billups instead. :oldlol:

Yea..I dont think this is going to work out. Especially if half of the team is older than the coach.

I guess I'm overreacting a little. This has the potential to be a great hire.

I mean Stevens took freaking [B]BUTLER[/B] to back-to-back national championship games.

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Actually a great hire.

[QUOTE=Shade8780]GOD DAMN :mad: :banghead:[/QUOTE]

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[QUOTE=Johnny Jones]I guess I'm overreacting a little. This has the potential to be a great hire.

I mean Stevens took freaking [B]BUTLER[/B] to back-to-back national championship games.[/QUOTE]

Agreed, Butler overachieves every year.

[QUOTE=Johnny Jones]I guess I'm overreacting a little. This has the potential to be a great hire.

I mean Stevens took freaking [B]BUTLER[/B] to back-to-back national championship games.[/QUOTE]
coaching college kids at butler who have a 1% chance of going to the NBA and professional athletes with egos are two totally different animals

His coaching revolves around playing extremely physical and pure execution. Not sure how that translates to the NBA, but I'm guessing not very well.

Shocking as a college basketball fan.

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Stevens coach college players with near zero talent. Now he is going to coach the NBA? :roll: :roll:

I suppose I'm one of the few who don't see this as terrible as so many others do. Stevens is great at X's and O's and is young, so he's probably flexible w/ his personality and handling of other personalities. Clearly Celts wont be any good this upcoming season, but I can see Stevens being a great NBA coach in 3~5 years.

Watch Stevens get this crappy Celtics team to rape the league, then get fired.

Sigh... Oh well...

Brad Stevens is a great college basketball coach. I don't know if he'd be the greatest NBA tbh, but I have a lot of respect for this guy nonetheless.

This could be one of the most genius hires or be one that backfires miserably. Reminds me of when NJ hired Calipari (similar age too, 37). At the time everyone was high on him but that experiment fell flat on its face. I'll be pulling for Stevens to stick in Boston, but realistically once the rebuild is over, he might become expendable.

bizarre move from the Celtics

[QUOTE=Johnny Jones]I guess I'm overreacting a little. This has the potential to be a great hire.

I mean Stevens took freaking [B]BUTLER[/B] to back-to-back national championship games.[/QUOTE]


Im with you on this. It's a high risk-high reward move. The c's are rebuilding and it would be hard to get a big name coach to come into that situation. Also it allows this young coach to show what he has without crazy expectations.

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beast at butler, celtics should have no worries

Okay.

Well...

Its not Vinny Del Negro?

[QUOTE=Derka]Okay.

Well...

Its not Vinny Del Negro?[/QUOTE]
Good point.