The Two Extremes

It's been well documented (here and elsewhere) that Shank likes to lay it on thick on occasion, both when burying a local athlete / sports team and when he praises them. Here's an example of the latter.

Brad Stevens spends the better part of every home game standing just a few feet from the Red Auerbach signature stenciled into the Garden’s parquet floor.

Red would enjoy that. He’d take a puff on his Hoyo de Monterrey double corona, sit back in his seat, and say, “You know, this kid we got coaching us is pretty damn good.’’

Indeed. Maybe Brad Stevens can bring Amazon to Boston. Maybe he can figure out a way to eliminate all rush-hour traffic. Maybe he can fix David Price and make everything good again between Bill Belichick and Tom Brady.

The man can do anything. Just look at what he is doing to the Philadelphia 76ers.