Today, the Celtics officially announced that they had signed a multi-year contract extension with the team's coach Joe Mazula.
Mazula officially entered the NBA in 2019, joined the Celtics first-team coaching staff, and served as the assistant coach of then-head coach Brad Stevens.
will continue to serve as assistant coach from 2020 to 2022 and assist the successor coach Wuduka. In September 2022, because Uduka was suspended, Mazula was urgently promoted to temporary head coach, leading the team to start the 2022-23 season with 18 wins and 4 losses, and was elected the best coach in the Eastern Conference in October and November for a row.
On February 16, 2023, the Celtics announced that they had signed a multi-year contract with them, officially becoming the 19th full-time head coach in the team history.
In the 2023-24 season, Mazula led the team to a league-best record of 64 wins and 18 losses, and was elected the Eastern Conference's best coach three times this season (December 2023, January 2024 and March 2024). In the Eastern Conference Finals, Mazula became the youngest finals coach since Bill Russell in 1969 at the age of 35. In the finals, he defeated the Mavericks 4-1 and won the 18th championship in the Celtics history, surpassing the Lakers to occupy the first place in NBA history. He also broke Pat Riley's record for 42 years with an age of 35 and 353 days, becoming the youngest champion coach in NBA history (the original record was 37 years old).
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