Mayor Pete Buttigieg is trending in the opposite direction of his NBA lookalike. That's a good thing for him.

Pete Buttigeig.
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As the saying goes, it ain't over 'til it's over. For some people that's a good thing. Others, not so much.

On Wednesday, NBC Sports pointed out that South Bend, Indiana mayor and 2020 Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg has an NBA doppelgänger: Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens. Buttigieg didn't dispute the evidence.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.