ATLANTA — Celtics coach Brad Stevens finished sixth in the voting for the NBA’s coach of the year, the league announced on Tuesday.

Stevens received 5 first-place votes, 10 second-place votes, and 19 third-place votes from the panel of 130 media members.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr won the award with 381 points and was followed by Portland’s Terry Stotts (335), San Antonio’s Gregg Popovich (166), Charlotte’s Steve Clifford (98), and Toronto’s Dwane Casey (83).

“Listen, the coaching in this league is really good,’’ said Stevens, before the Hawks demolished his Celtics, 110-83, in Game 5 of their Eastern Conference playoff series.

“And Steve Kerr more than deserves that award. Any time that you have a team that accomplished what they accomplished, they should sweep the awards. And that’s just the way it goes. And just to be one of the 30 coaches in this league is an honor. It’s not about trying to compare yourself against everybody else. For me, it’s not.’’

On Tuesday morning, before the results were released, point guard Isaiah Thomas was asked why he thinks Stevens could become one of the greatest coaches ever.

“I mean, the work he puts in first and foremost,’’ Thomas said. “The relationships he has with his players, I think that goes a long way, especially at the professional level. Everybody respects him. He knows what he’s doing. And you know when other players say nice things about your coach, you must be doing something right.’’

Thomas said he first realized Stevens’s skill as a coach when he saw how often the plays he called during timeouts were successful.

“I don’t think they’re going to work when he’s drawing them up, but then they find a way to work themselves out,’’ he said. “So he’s just a student of the game, he really is.’’

Crowder works late After going 1 for 11 in Game 3 of this first-round series against the Hawks last Friday, Celtics forward Jae Crowder went to the team’s training facility in Waltham and worked on his jump shots until about 1:30 a.m.

His mother, Helen Thompson, said Crowder also returned there late on Saturday night, the day before Boston’s Game 4 win, when he started to snap out of a 2-for-20 rut by going 4 for 11.

The Celtics were in Atlanta on Monday night, but Crowder, who is from nearby Villa Rica, has some connections that allowed him to get in some more late-night work.

“I’ve got my [friend] here who went to Georgia State, got a couple of connections at Georgia Tech, so we found a gym,’’ he said.

He hit 4 of 10 shots in Game 5, finishing with 10 points.

Increased workloadCeltics guard Marcus Smart played the final 26 minutes of Boston’s Game 4 win, an extremely rare occurrence in the NBA. Smart said he’d played that many minutes in a row at Oklahoma State, but that was with the benefit of a 15-minute halftime break.

But the second-year guard, who is just 22 years old, said he is more than capable of putting together such a long stretch as these playoffs progress, if needed.

“You get in the flow of the game and kind of just lose yourself in the game and you kind of don’t think about the things like being fatigued and coming out of the game and things like that,’’ Smart said.

Smart said Stevens can generally tell when he is beginning to tire, so he rarely needs to tell him. Stevens, for his part, said he would rather not ask.

“I don’t want to talk to him about it in the middle of the game,’’ Stevens said. “I think the worst thing you could ever ask somebody is, ‘Hey, are you tired?’ No, just keep going.’’

Bradley stays home Celtics guard Avery Bradley, who is out indefinitely after straining his hamstring during Game 1, did not travel to Atlanta for Tuesday’s game. “He’s just back getting multiple-times-per-day treatment and doing everything that he needs to do to continue to progress,’’ Stevens said.

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