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Bradley Kent "Brad" Stevens (born October 22, 1976) is an American professional basketball head coach for the Boston Celtics of the NBA. He was previously the head coach at Butler University in Indianapolis. A former basketball player, he grew up in Zionsville, Indiana, where he starred on the Zionsville Community High School basketball team, setting four school records. After high school, he attended DePauw University, where he played basketball and earned a degree in economics. He made the all-conference team multiple times and was a three-time Academic All-America nominee. Stevens joined the Butler basketball program as a volunteer prior to the 2000–01 season after quitting his job at Eli Lilly and Company. He was promoted to a full-time assistant coaching position for the 2001–02 season. On April 4, 2007, he became the head coach after Todd Lickliter left to coach the Iowa Hawkeyes. In his first year, Stevens led Butler to 30 wins, becoming the third-youngest head coach in NCAA Division I history to have a 30-win season. In 2010, his third year as head coach, Stevens broke the NCAA record for most wins in a coach's first three years, exceeding the previous record by eight. In the postseason, Stevens coached Butler to the first Final Four in school history. At 33 years old, Stevens became the second-youngest head coach to make a NCAA National Championship game, losing 61-59 to Duke. Shortly after the season ended, he signed a contract extension with Butler through the 2011–12 season. With the 2010–11 team making the Final Four, Stevens became the youngest coach to go to two Final Fours.〔(Butler earns return trip to Final Four after beating Florida in OT )〕 Stevens coached the Bulldogs in their second consecutive national championship game on April 4, 2011, where the team lost to the Huskies of the University of Connecticut. Stevens is known for a calm, focused coaching style. He spends a lot of time analyzing opponents using statistical analysis, adding new wrinkles to his team's play each game. He puts a strong emphasis on defensive and team oriented basketball. Butler's success against teams with superior athletes has been attributed to Stevens' coaching style and calm demeanor. Stevens has twice been named the Horizon League Coach of the Year and won collegeinsider.com's Hugh Durham Award mid-season honors in January 2009. He has also been both a Hugh Durham Award and Jim Phelan Award finalist all three years of his career. Stevens has been called a coaching prodigy and compared to John Wooden. He is married with two young children. In July 2013, he signed a six-year, 22 million dollar contract to become the head coach of the Boston Celtics in the NBA. In April 2015, Stevens led the Celtics to the NBA Playoffs as the 7th seed in the Eastern Conference with a 40-42 record.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://m.timesunion.com/news/article/Celtics-clinch-7th-seed-in-clutch-6200435.php )〕 ==Early life== Bradley Kent Stevens grew up in the Indianapolis suburb of Zionsville, Indiana, where he developed his love for basketball. Starting at age five, Stevens would watch taped basketball games "before he went to afternoon kindergarten".〔 His father would often drive him to Bloomington, to watch Indiana Hoosiers games.〔 "It's hard not to be (love with basketball ) when you're a kid growing up in Indiana", Stevens later said.〔 For his eighth birthday, Stevens received a new basketball hoop. "It’s so much fun to dream in your driveway," he later remarked. "That’s where my friends and I hung out. It was a lot of fun to grow up in that era." When a friend, Brandon Monk, had a basketball court installed in his back yard, Stevens "appeared instantaneously."〔 He was so dedicated to the game that he would bring the unprepared ingredients for grilled cheese sandwiches over to Monk's house, so that he would not waste time waiting for the sandwiches to cook.〔 Monk's court soon became a gathering place, where Zionsville kids and kids from the surrounding areas would hold pickup games.〔 These games helped develop Stevens' competitive streak.〔 Besides playing basketball, the young Stevens also enjoyed solving puzzles, a skill he later applied to analyzing opposing teams to find their weaknesses.〔 Stevens attended Zionsville Community High School, where he became a star basketball player.〔 He wore No. 31 in high school in honor of Indiana Pacers guard Reggie Miller. During his freshman year, he would get up early to practice shooting at a local gym before school.〔 The hard work paid off as Stevens made the varsity team that same year.〔 By the time his high school career was complete, Stevens had set school records for career scoring, assists, steals, and three-point field goals. As of 2010, he still holds the records for points (1508), assists (444), and steals (156), as well as the single-season points record (644 in 1995).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.zcs.k12.in.us/~zchsathletics/Winter/BoysBB/team-records-05.doc )〕 Stevens was named to the all-conference team three times. In 1995, he was named the sectional MVP and was the leading scorer in state sectional play (32.3 ppg).〔 Stevens made the academic all-state first team and received the Straight A Gold Medal Award all four years.〔 He was a member of the National Honor Society, graduating seventh in his class of 165.〔 He earned three letters in basketball, three in track, and one in baseball during his days at Zionsville.〔 During summers, he traveled the country playing AAU basketball.〔 Although Stevens had a strong passion for the game, he realized that his basketball skills were modest and not likely to get him very far.〔 As such, he chose to attend academically oriented DePauw University for college.〔 During his stay, he played in all 101 DePauw games, earning four varsity letters.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=DePauw University )〕 He earned multiple all-conference and academic all-conference awards, and was a three-time Academic All-America nominee.〔 He was a team captain his senior year, and averaged more than 8 points per game three of his four years.〔〔 His career highs were 24 points and 8 rebounds in a game.〔 After his senior year, Stevens received the Coaches’ Award.〔 Coach Bill Fenlon later described Stevens as "one of the most selfless, team-oriented person I've ever been around."〔 While at DePauw, Stevens was a member of the Management Fellows Honors Program and the DePauw Community Services’ Sports Night executive board.〔 He was also a brother of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.〔 During summer vacations, Stevens spent time teaching at Butler basketball camps.〔 He was named to the Dean's list and graduated in 1999 with a degree in economics.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brad Stevens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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