Brad Stevens said Tuesday he has no interest in the North Carolina head coaching job and no desire to leave his role with the Boston Celtics. Speaking on 98.5 The Sports Hub, Stevens said, “I'm not motivated to do anything but what I'm doing is the bottom line,” and added, “And I'm really happy with the people we're around and everything else.”
That answer came after Stevens was discussed by many people last month as a candidate for the North Carolina opening, a link that made sense to some because of what he did in college basketball. Stevens coached Butler in the mid-2000s and led the program to back-to-back national championship appearances before becoming the Celtics head coach in 2013.
His path shifted again in 2021, when he stopped coaching Boston and moved into the front office, but the speculation never fully went away. North Carolina, one of the top programs in college basketball, hired former Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone on Tuesday, ending the latest round of coaching chatter before it could turn into anything more for Stevens.
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For the Celtics, the message was simple: their top basketball executive is staying put, and he said so plainly enough to leave little room for interpretation.
