On Sunday, Celtics reporters got a surprise visit: President of basketball operations Brad Stevens gave a press conference before the team’s regular-season finale against the Hawks.
After a question about Jaylen Brown’s hand and another about Joe Mazzulla, The Boston Globe’s Adam Himmelsbach asked Stevens a simple-but-pertinent one: Why, exactly, are you volunteering to speak when nobody expected you to do so?
“I asked our media team if they wanted me to talk,” Stevens said with a chuckle. “I’ll probably let the coaches and players do all of the talking in the playoffs, because it’s their show.