For the second year in a row Celtics coach Brad Stevens headed to Fort Myers to visit the Boston Red Sox over the NBA's All-Star weekend. Last year, Stevens must've given some good juju to the Sox, and their rookie manager Alex Cora, as they finished the season with a franchise-record 108 wins en route to the 9th World Series title in team history. He was one of the first people outside of the club that Cora asked to address his new team.
Cora said that Stevens had a "great" message for his team, including advice on how to manage the ups and downs of a long season that came from a particular legendary NBA coach.