The 37-year-old may come across as corny and gauche. But he’s already won one NBA championship and it probably won’t be his last
The Boston Celtics’ head coach, Joe Mazzulla, is a very odd man. He is also a very good coach.
Take, for example, a story Celtics guard Derrick White told in an interview last November. According to White, the first sound at one Celtics practice wasn’t a whistle.
It was gunfire.
“[Mazzulla is] like, ‘Play the music!’… and next thing you know, it’s just machine guns going off … you’re in a war zone,” White said. He was laughing – but not really laughing.
