Well we didn't see this coming: former Duke star and current Jon Scheyer assistant Amile Jefferson is off to Boston where he’ll be a Celtics assistant. And he’ll also reunite with his former Blue Devil teammate Jayson Tatum.
It’s possible that Boston pursued him to keep Tatum happy as at least one of the stories below suggests, but that’s not enough to hire an NBA assistant. If it was, the entire league would have posses on the bench.
No. Jefferson is a guy you want on your side. At Duke, he was willing to take his time to develop and when he was asked as a senior to come off the bench, he was willing to do that and that helped his team win the 2015 national championship.