Celtics GM Brad Stevens answered all of the questions during his exit interview earlier this week. He even acknowledged they were in an exit interview rather than being at a morning practice ahead of Game 1 of the Finals.
In the middle of the season, assistant coach Damon Stoudamire accepted a head coaching job at Georgia Tech and essentially left Boston immediately.
The Celtics didn’t hire anyone to join head coach Joe Mazzulla‘s staff that has only been withering away since the Ime Udoka situation, also losing Will Hardy to Utah, the Celtics lost three key coaches and didn’t replace them.
During Stevens’ exit press conference, he was asked about the coaching situation and he said they tried to hire another coach mid-season after losing Stoudamire.
“We did try. Losing Damon in March, we again tried. But those timings are tough for people to up and move or up and join a new team that they don’t know anything about or don’t know. But that was just to be supplemental because we believed in the people that were here. Moving forward, we’ll have at least, you know, we’ll see how everything shakes itself out with what the staff looks like. But we’ll have at least one addition that we’ll make, now that we have a summer to make it. And we’ll go from there.”
Stevens will always try to build from within his organization, as any great business should be run. A coaching addition will be made this offseason, as Stevens said.
As Stevens is talking, I’m thinking about the time he invited former Rockets head coach Stephen Silas for a tour of the Auerbach Center. Looking back on it, that visit was in the middle of April.
Perhaps Stevens was offering him a job at that time.
Silas would be a great addition to the coaching staff, working alongside Joe Mazzulla.
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