Anyone unfamiliar with Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla has actually turn into extra conscious of one of many NBA’s strangest characters within the wake of Boston’s championship celebrations.
Mazzulla, probably the one head coach within the league who needed to be told by his bosses to stop making an attempt to dam opposing participant’s pictures this yr, has taken over the web within the wake of the Celtics’ title celebrations. In addition to carrying the championship trophy across the metropolis to varied eating places, Mazzulla went on a fully bonkers celebratory podcast tour that included him breaking down how he would plan to rob a financial institution, among other wild anecdotes.
Mazzulla has executed all of it, together with teaching the Celtics to banner No. 18, on a meniscus he has apparently wanted surgical procedure on since tearing it in March during a loss to the Hawks, due to course he did. After all, it is a man who as soon as tried to turn down health insurance whereas working within the G League as a result of he “didn’t have time to get harm.”
Well, he actually put that mindset to the check in the course of the Celtics’ championship parade, leaping each off the roof and out the window of the duck boat carrying him a number of instances — once more, on A TORN MENISCUS THAT WILL REQUIRE SURGERY — to have a good time with followers:
Joe Mazzulla jumped out the window of his duck boat, ran via the streets hyping everybody up, then by some means jumped again into the duck boat even on a torn meniscus pic.twitter.com/3MBSKZ5wGU
— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) June 21, 2024
Mazzulla’s son even bought in on the enjoyable, displaying he’s effectively on observe to matching his father’s delightfully chaotic vitality:
Perhaps fittingly, all this comes on a day the governor of Mazzulla’s native Rhode Island has officially dubbed “Joe Mazzulla Day.” That was clearly within the works earlier than Friday, however after watching Joe Mazz on the parade, it will be laborious to name the day anything.
