BOSTON -- The Boston Celtics' typically straight-faced basketball boss Brad Stevens couldn't hide his smile after watching just one practice with Jrue Holiday on the team.
"We made a thousand mistakes. But you could also see, like, there's that thing that's there," Stevens said at an introductory news conference Wednesday, three days after the Celtics traded for Holiday. "There's a togetherness. There's an excitement. There's a joy, a competitiveness.
"And I think he brings it as well as anybody around," Stevens said. "I just think that's contagious."
The Celtics acquired Holiday on Sunday from Portland, where he had been sent as part of the trade that moved Damian Lillard to Milwaukee.