Brad Stevens has been working in Boston for eight years now and it appears the Celtics head coach plans on staying for a lot longer.
With the Indiana Hoosiers in need of a new coach, and Stevens having an obvious connection to the state — it’s his home state and where he coached his way into national prominence at Butler — the 44-year-old being connected to the job was inevitable.
Unsurprisingly, that talked picked up across the internet this week, and Stevens was asked about the rumors Thursday during a press conference. I don’t know if he could have done a better job of shutting it all down…
What a quote from Brad Stevens 😂 pic.twitter.com/GS8em4uAFs
— Celtics Junkies (@Celtics_Junkies) March 19, 2021
“I’m not a kid anymore. I’m a 44-year-old Masshole. I swerve around others when I’m driving, I eat Dunkin Donuts and I root for the Patriots.”
Yeah, that dude isn’t going anywhere.
It’s a bit of a weird flex, though. I don’t know if he should be proud of any of that: Being old is awful, nobody likes a Masshole, he should be more safe when driving and the Patriots were a bad team last year. But, Stevens has found his new home and he appears to be content.
And, really, why would you leave an NBA job for a college job that comes with unrealistic expectations? Oddly enough, there’s far less pressure to win as the coach of a team with 16 championships than there is for a program that last won it all in 1987? Indiana just isn’t the draw it once was … even for a Hooiser.
Stevens is making the right decision. Now, about that driving…
