{"id":415739,"date":"2023-02-16T11:47:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T16:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=415739"},"modified":"2023-02-16T13:48:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T18:48:34","slug":"celtics-name-mazzulla-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/celtics-name-mazzulla-as-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics name Mazzulla as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five months after being named the Boston Celtics interim head coach, Joe Mazzulla has now been appointed the full-time gig, the NBA club announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Mazzulla is officially the 19th Head Coach in franchise history \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LMcTLS1u0m\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LMcTLS1u0m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1626233952968253440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Mazzulla took over for the Celtics in September, shortly after former coach Ime Udoka was suspended for the entire 2022-23 season due to a violation of team policies related to an improper relationship with a female staff member.<\/p>\n<p>Mazzulla, who joined the Celtics as an assistant coach in June 2019, has led Boston to an NBA-best 42-17 record thus far.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics also announced that they&#8217;ve agreed to a contract extension with the 34-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Mazzulla was named an NBA All-Star Game head coach for this weekend&#8217;s event, as he will lead Team Giannis.<\/p>\n<p>He is the eighth coach in Boston&#8217;s history to have the honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five months after being named the Boston Celtics interim head coach, Joe Mazzulla has now been appointed the full-time gig, the NBA club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":415740,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17209,16890,17543,17542],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He is Boston's 19th head coach in franchise history","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415739"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=415739"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=415739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}