People around the Boston area have been boasting Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens' level of basketball intelligence and place among the hierarchy of NBA coaches for quite some time now. Whether or not other fan-bases around the league we're noticing the past few years or so, the former Butler University coach has been establishing himself as one of the league's up-and-coming gems working with scrap-heap rosters made up of cast-offs and young, inexperienced talent yet still producing incredible results.
Especially with this improbable playoff run this post-season though, it now seems Stevens is no longer just an up-and-coming NBA coach but as now ESPN analyst, and former Celtic-great, Paul Pierce dubbed him during yesterday's Game 3 lead-up coverage, he might be "the best coach in the league.