{"id":1032045,"date":"2026-08-30T01:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1032045\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T01:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:07:21","slug":"and-you-again-try-to-be-as-upfront-and-honest-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1032045\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd, you, again, try to be as upfront and honest as \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honaker, who is Butler University&#8217;s associate athletic director for development, was sure to pick Stevens&#8217;s brain on it, even if not directly. He asked how Stevens, who is the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Celtics;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Celtics&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/boston-celtics\/2\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Celtics<\/a>&#8216; president of basketball operations, can trust his instincts when making unpopular decisions. &#8220;Well, obviously, I&#8217;m sure a lot of people immediately got to Jaylen Brown, right, or immediately go to [Marcus Smart] a couple years ago, and that&#8217;s a really hard part of the job,&#8221; Stevens said. <a data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;And, you, again, try to be as upfront and honest as you can, but there are a lot of factors when you end up making a decision and you&#039;re leaning on a lot of people, leaning on a lot of information.&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\\&quot;And, you, again, try to be as upfront and honest as you can, but there are a lot of factors when you end up making a decision and you&#039;re leaning on a lot of people, leaning on a lot of information.\\&quot;&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2026\/08\/25\/sports\/brad-stevens-celtics-jaylen-brown-trade\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;And, you, again, try to be as upfront and honest as you can, but there are a lot of factors when you end up making a decision and you&#8217;re leaning on a lot of people, leaning on a lot of information.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Honaker, who is Butler University&#8217;s associate athletic director for development, was sure to pick Stevens&#8217;s brain on it,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1032046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[412810,412811,14562,25873,1260,62,33345,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1032045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-butler-universitys","tag-honaker","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-marcus-smart","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-stevens","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117181785587580134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}