JEROME ALLEN looked at his time back coaching at his alma mater as an "opportunity." When that ended in March, he did not really understand why everybody kept asking him how he was doing. He was taking his kids to school, helping coach a girl's soccer team at his church, continuing to teach four classes at Strawberry Mansion Promise Academy. He was doing just fine waiting for the next opportunity.
That has come with Brad Stevens and the Celtics. Allen just spent the last week in Boston and will become a Celtics assistant coach.
"I saw [Stevens] had an opening on his staff and I reached out to him," Allen said.