It also comes in the man he supported for president a year after he hired Tomlin. He’s a big part of it,” Celtics coach Brad Stevens said before the game. But he will be remembered best at the end of every regular season, when a new batch of coaches and general managers are fired and teams scramble to find their successors. Defending NBA champion Cleveland get Indiana in the East for the first round, and they will play the first game of the postseason on Saturday afternoon.