Joe Mazzulla will be back as Boston Celtics head coach next season, and it's a sign of the team's recent rockiness that it needed to be said.
While speaking with reporters Thursday, Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens confirmed the team's interim-turned-permanent head coach would be back next season after the team's Eastern Conference finals exit against the Miami Heat.affirmed he was and praised his effortsI thought he did a really good job with this group. Everybody's going to overreact to the best players and coaches after every game. That's always the way it is.
and reportedly never found a replacement for Will Hardy, who was hired as Utah Jazz head coach last offseason.indicated he and Mazzulla would look for at least one assistant coach with past NBA head coaching experience"With at least one addition to the bench, and [Mazzulla] will lead this charge, we'll look for somebody that's got a lot of NBA experience for sure.
Behind the scenes, though, The Athletic reported there were some concerns among players that the team had drifted from its defense-first identity, to the point that stars Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown met with Mazzulla in early March to implore to get the defensively valuable Grant Williams back in the rotation.
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