Stevens added that he isn’t focused on it, as it doesn’t have an immediate impact on the team’s basketball operations.

 

“I don’t want to get too far into the weeds of it all but how does it affect us?” Stevens asked. “It doesn’t really right now. From the standpoint of the corporate side or basketball operations we’re just head down, doing what we think is best for the now of the Celtics and the future of the Celtics. We’re lucky we [have] a good team.”

 

One of the other summer subplots for Boston has been the selections (or omission) of Team USA ahead of the upcoming Paris Olympics.

 

Jaylen Brown, Boston’s NBA Finals MVP, was notably left off the roster. Even after the team announced it was replacing Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard, Brown wasn’t picked. Instead, the honor went to his Celtics teammate, Derrick White.

 

“Jaylen’s a great player,” Stevens said. “I don’t think there’s any doubt that Jaylen could be on any team, could be on any Olympic team in any year. But at the end of the day, his approach, he talked about how we called Derrick and he talked about his own feelings from it.