10 Things You Don’t Know About Brad Stevens: NBA’s Best Coach

Fact #5: Brad Stevens Worked Cheap Because He Loved It

The day before the season’s practice began, Stevens was promoted to director of basketball operations and earned $18,000 a year. As he says, he spent 14 hours a day studying other team’s defensive tendencies. He also says, it was an “enjoyable a year as I ever had.”

Fact #6: Brad Stevens Had an Incredible First Year as Butler’s Head Coach

In 2007, Stevens became Butler’s head coach of after then head coach Todd Lickliter moved to the University of Iowa. Butler went 30-4 Stevens’ first year.

Fact #7: Brad Stevens’ Teams Made the NCAA Final Two Years in a Row

During the 2009-10 season, Butler went 33-5 and went to the NCAA Tournament championship game, losing 61-59 to Duke when Gordon Hayward’s half-court buzzer-beater missed. Obviously, Hayward and Stevens are now united with the Celtics – although Hayward was injured in this season’s Game One. In 2010-11, Butler also went to the NCAA finals, but lost to University of Connecticut.

Fact #8: Brad Stevens Stayed Put Even Though He was Offered More Money to Move

Stevens coached two more years at Butler, and during that time several universities tried to hire him (UCLA is said to have offered him $3 million per year, when Stevens made $750,000 in 2010 with Butler.) Finally, in the summer of 2013 Stevens signed a six-year, $22 million contract with the Celtics.

The three finalists for NBA Coach of the Year… Dwane Casey, Quin Snyder and Brad Stevens!

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