The Boston Celtics will take on the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday night (7 p.m. ET) looking to close out the first round series and advance to the Eastern Conference semifinals yet again. 

Boston took both games in Philadelphia and will have a chance to win Game 5 on their home court at TD Garden. The game will air nationally on ESPN.

But before the Celtics take on the 76ers, President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens was rewarded with the NBA's Executive of the Year Award.

As noted by the NBA Communications team, this is the second win for Stevens, who also won in 2023-24 as the C's eventually won the NBA Finals. He is the 12th executive to win the award multiple times.

The 49-year-old Indiana native spent six seasons coaching at Division I Butler University. Through those six seasons, he went a whopping 166-49, making the NCAA Tournament five times. He won the Horizon League four times and made trips to back-to-back Final Fours. His 2009-10 team advanced to the national title game, falling just short against Duke.

After leaving Butler, Stevens spent eight years as the head coach of the Celtics, also maintaining solid success. He went 354-282 (.557), finishing over .500 in six of the eight seasons. He was 36-36 in 2020-21 when the season was only 72 games because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He made the playoffs in seven of the eight years in Boston, advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals three times. He also helped the Celtics play through the Isaiah Thomas era, the Kyrie Irving era, the Gordon Hayward era, the early Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum era, and the Kemba Walker era.

Following the 2020-21 season, Stevens transitioned to an executive role in the front office. The team hired Ime Udoka, who took them to the NBA Finals, and then brought in Joe Mazzulla after Udoka was let go for non-basketball reasons. The C's won the title in Mazzulla's second year at the helm, beating Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks.

It's been an incredible season for the C's, who earned the No. 2 seed in the playoffs despite injury issues and an offseason reset that included trades of Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Holliday. Those bold moves, which also included letting Al Horford walk in free agency and acquiring Nikola Vucevic at the trade deadline, mimic the bold moves that Stevens made to win the award the first time: Acquiring Porizings and Holliday, while also trading away the beloved Marcus Smart.

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