Bradley Kent Stevens (born October 22, 1976) is an American basketball executive and former coach who is currently the president of basketball operations and de facto general manager for the Boston Celtics.
Born and raised in Zionsville, Indiana, Stevens starred on the Zionsville Community High School basketball team, setting four school records. After high school, he attended DePauw University, where he played basketball and earned a degree in economics. Stevens made the all-conference team multiple times and was a three-time Academic All-America nominee. He transitioned into coaching after quitting his job at Eli Lilly and Company, joining the basketball program at Butler University as a volunteer prior to the 2000–01 season. Stevens was promoted to a full-time assistant coach the following season. After five seasons in the role, he assumed the position of head coach on April 4, 2007, after Todd Lickliter left to coach the Iowa Hawkeyes. In his first year, Stevens led Butler to 30 wins, becoming the third-youngest head coach in NCAA Division I history to have a 30-win season.
In 2010, his third year as head coach, Stevens broke the NCAA record for most wins in a coach's first three years, exceeding the previous record by eight wins. In the NCAA tournament, Stevens coached Butler to the first Final Four in school history, while also becoming the second-youngest head coach to make an NCAA national championship game, losing 61–59 to Duke. With the following season's team also making the Final Four, Stevens became the youngest coach to go to two Final Fours. Stevens coached the Bulldogs in their second consecutive national championship game on April 4, 2011, where the team again lost, this time to the Connecticut Huskies. Stevens was regularly named a finalist for Horizon League Coach of the Year award, winning twice, and was also a nominee for both the Hugh Durham Award and Jim Phelan Award in every year of his college career.
This success garnered Stevens the head coaching job with the Boston Celtics in 2013, when he signed a six-year, $22 million contract. After undertaking a rebuild early in his tenure, Stevens led the Celtics to the NBA playoffs every year from 2014 to 2021, won a division championship in 2016–17, and appeared in the Eastern Conference finals in 2017, 2018, and 2020. He gained a reputation as one of the NBA's best coaches, with his motion offense and stingy defense earning plaudits from fans, peers, and players.
In June 2021, Stevens was named as the president of basketball operations and the de facto general manager of the Celtics following the resignation and retirement of Danny Ainge, before Ainge was talked out of retirement to join the Utah Jazz as their alternate governor later that year. In April 2024, Stevens was named the 2023–24 NBA Executive of the Year. Following that, he won his first NBA championship while with the Celtics as an executive, completing the rebuild that Stevens helped begin and oversee as the head coach.
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Date: 23 October 1976
By HERBERT KOSHETZ
Herbert KOSHETZ
Times Mirror Co has offered to buy for $292-million in cash outstanding stock of Booth Newspapers; offer comes after Booth mgt became involved in dispute with S I Newhouse, head of Newhouse newspaper chain, who owns about 25% of Booth stock; Booth pres James E Sauter comments (S)
Date: 23 October 1976
By SELWYN RAAB Special to The New York Times
Selwyn Special
Passaic County Ct Judge Bruno L Leopizzi bars newsmen and public from jury selection in Carter-Artis retrial (M)
Date: 23 October 1976
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
NBC announces it has ceased considering expanding early evening newscast from 30 mins to 1 hr on weeknights; 3 networks had been drafting plans for longer newscasts since ABC News hinted that its acquisition of Barbara Walters would be accompanied by increase in length of broadcasts (M)
Date: 22 October 1976
Defense Dept on Oct 21 says it has blocked publication of article stressing strong relationship between US and Israel because it was feared that it 'might be construed as representing US Govt policy'; statement comes in response to article in Oct 20 NY Times that reptd views of Joseph Churba, top Middle East intelligence official in Air Force (S)
Date: 22 October 1976
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker lauds TV networks for recognizing pol nature of Ford's 2d press conf in 6 days and not allowing him to pre-empt air time
Date: 22 October 1976
John H Cross lr, commenting on Robert Reinhold Sept 26 article, says voter apathy is result of deep-rooted cynicism; cartoon
Date: 22 October 1976
67 Indian journalists send Prime Min Gandhi lr protesting Govt action against Indian Express and other newspapers (S)
Date: 22 October 1976
By FARNSWORTH FOWLE
Farnsworth FOWLE
Shah of Iran suggests that both NY Times and Washington Post reflect power of Jewish lobby in US in volume of news they print on Zionist and Arab questions (S)
Date: 22 October 1976