Getty Images/Ringer illustration First, he dominated the college game. Next, he steered several overachieving Celtics teams. Now, he's built an unprecedented five-out destroyer that just won Boston's 18th championship. On the first day of the 2023 NBA Finals, Brad Stevens endured an excruciating press conference at Boston's Auerbach Center. Not even 72 hours removed from watching the Boston Celtics scrounge a season-low 84 points in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals, he sat somewhere between rock bottom and the semi-encouraging belief that his team was one sprained ankle away from a chance at Banner 18. Stevens was as stoic as a person in his position could possibly be, splicing disappointment over his team's catastrophically anticlimactic finale with pride over how deep it went. He called out his team's letdowns—from Games 3 and 5 in Round 1 against the Atlanta Hawks, to Games 1 and 4 in Round 2 against the Philadelphia 76ers, to the three wretched performances against the eighth-seeded Miami Heat—while recognizing its overall body of work. "I don't want to overreact," he said. "I look at it as: How can we be a little bit better? And yet, a lot of our times when we were...