“In Brad we trust, so he’ll figure it out,” Jaylen Brown said Monday as the Celtics prepared for yet another game with an injury report that tests Twitter’s character limit.
Brown voiced his support for Brad Stevens’s Coach of the Year campaign, a push the coach himself is certainly not a vocal member of. But even without Stevens’s support, Boston’s head coach is a leading candidate for the award after taking a team that returned just four players from last season, then lost its star forward on opening night, then lost just about everyone else for portions of the season, to 53 wins and a fighting chance at the Eastern Conference title.