It was nothing more than what Brad Stevens termed "a curveball," as it turned out. After an initial false positive COVID test, Evan Fournier turned in a string of negative tests, leading to his first-time availability for the Celtics Monday night against New Orleans. "He will play significant minutes, as he will all the rest of the year," Stevens said of how he planned to begin with the talented wing player, acquired from Orlando at the trade deadline for the since-waived Jeff Teague and two second-round draft picks. "We had an obvious need for another wing that can do what he does, and we're fortunate he's with us, and he's on our team," said the Celtics coach. "So I got a chance to go over to the gym (Sunday) while he was shooting around when we got back and then this morning we went through some stuff prior to our shootaround, we shot around as a team for 30 minutes, so he's gotten the crash course in a very short amount of time. He's been there, done that. He's played against us, you know, tons of times, probably knows our plays as well as anybody, and certainly we just want him to play to his strengths and not worry about anything else."