"I think he coaches a year from now. I think somebody goes after him and he decides like, yeah, this was cool, I gave it a shot. ...

"I just don't see Brad being long for this. I think he'll miss coaching. That's what he's really good at. Not that he can't be good at this, but I've got some reservations about him as kind of a general manager of sorts."

"I think NBA teams right now would call Brad Stevens," Goodman said. "I really do. I think if he didn't take this job and make it public, and they kind of went behind closed doors and said 'Hey, Brad, why don't you see if something else there that comes your way.' But I think in a year, there will be other NBA teams."

"He's going to try this out," he added. "Maybe he does love it. Maybe at the end of the day he's great at it. My biggest concern with Brad Stevens as a general manager is I don't think he's a good liar. I think you need to be a good liar to be a great general manager."

Time will tell whether Goodman's assessment is accurate, but Ainge made it clear he believes Stevens will succeed in his new role. The former Celtics GM said Wednesday that Stevens was "born for this type of job."

That's the whole narrative evolving with Boston talk radio right now - that Wyc went with Brad because he was under contract anyway. Felger and Mazz at the Sports Hub have been pushing that narrative all afternoon about how the Cs could have got Sam Presti but decided to go with Brad for the cheap option. Their basis for the Sam Presti thing is that Chris Mannix said that they called OKC to inquire about Sam Presti. No word on how the conversation went.

And not many facts to support the narrative mind you, but a lot of supposition, which is what talk radio lives on I suppose. It's fun to speculate