A biography for Brad Stevenshasn’t been written yet.
“As I've grown older, I appreciate what I had at Lilly even more than I did back then.”
“I have a pretty good idea of what makes NBA players great - especially at the different positions, and where the biggest problems lie that you have to address in defending those people.”
“I've always found that in a team of 15 people, it's a little different than in a team of 40 or 50 people. If I name two or three people captains, inevitably you're disempowering more than you're empowering.”
“If somebody gives you accolades, that's nice to hear but it's not the end-all, be-all for me.”
“My care is that we play with great effort and togetherness. That is what we're looking for. That's what we want to be.”
“I find five or six restaurants and I just constantly order from them or go there. I don't change much.”
“At the end of the day, you do this job because you really like working with your team and like the chance to compete as an organization.”
“When you've worked in the same place for 13 years, when things go well, you know how to keep it going well. When things go bad, you know how to fix it. The biggest thing is that familiarity.”
“I believe you're either intrinsically motivated or you're not.”
“I think the biggest thing in this league is how many positions can you guard and do you have a strength offensively that's applicable?”
“I always was intrigued by the N.B.A.”
“Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.”
“Jaylen's greatest impact, as good as he is at basketball, won't be at basketball. I just think he's a special guy. He's a special leader.”
“I haven't been near perfect by any means. In fact, I've got a list of things I want to do better.”
“Nobody wants to play without fans.”
“I'm not a late-night guy.”
“I think the NBA's amazing and I think our players are amazing.”
“One thing I'd like to do better personally is decompress. Obviously when things don't go your way, you'll be thinking of it all the time.”
“When things don't go your way, the day after you wake up and try to get better and be as good as you can be the next day.”
“Every decent person feels the pain of the African-American community, but I also don't want to pretend like I know the exact distinct pain.”