Overview
- League officials announced Tuesday that NBA team executives voted Brad Stevens the 2025–26 winner, with Ernst & Young counting the ballots.
- Stevens earned 11 first-place votes and 69 points, finishing ahead of Atlanta’s Onsi Saleh with 41 and Detroit’s Trajan Langdon with 40.
- Boston went 56-26 and locked up the East’s No. 2 seed for the fifth straight season under Stevens’ front-office tenure.
- The Celtics stayed in contention after moving on from Kristaps Porzingis, Jrue Holiday and Al Horford and getting only 16 games from Jayson Tatum as he returned from an Achilles injury.
- The recognition lands as Boston leads Philadelphia 3-1 in the first round, with Game 5 set at TD Garden.