Joe Mazzulla
Mazzulla with the Boston Celtics in 2024 | |
| Boston Celtics | |
|---|---|
| Position | Head coach |
| League | NBA |
| Personal information | |
| Born | June 30, 1988 Johnston, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Listed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Listed weight | 200 lb (91 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Bishop Hendricken (Warwick, Rhode Island) |
| College | West Virginia (2006–2011) |
| NBA draft | 2011: undrafted |
| Position | Guard |
| Coaching career | 2011–present |
| Career history | |
| As a coach: | |
| 2011–2013 | Glenville State (assistant) |
| 2013–2016 | Fairmont State (assistant) |
| 2016–2017 | Maine Red Claws (assistant) |
| 2017–2019 | Fairmont State |
| 2019–2022 | Boston Celtics (assistant) |
| 2022–present | Boston Celtics |
| Career highlights | |
Joseph Mazzulla (born June 30, 1988) is an American professional basketball coach who is the head coach for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "the Psycho", he played college basketball for West Virginia University as a point guard.
Following his collegiate career as a point guard, Mazzulla went undrafted in the 2011 NBA draft, instead choosing to pursue a career in coaching at the college level, coaching at Glenville State and Fairmont State's basketball programs as an assistant coach for 3 seasons each, before being hired to be an assistant coach for the Maine Red Claws in 2016. He was rehired at Fairmont State, this time as their basketball program's head coach, from 2017 to 2019. After these stints in coaching at the collegiate level and in the NBA G League, Mazzulla joined the Celtics as an assistant coach in 2019.
After the discovery of a contract breaking affair that then head coach Ime Udoka was having with staff members, Mazzulla was promoted to be the interim head coach of the Celtics prior to the 2022–23 season, and was named head coach full time in February 2023. In his second season, Mazzulla led the Celtics to a league-best 64 wins and an NBA championship. He currently holds the highest winning percentage of any coach in NBA history with over 200 games coached. Mazzulla is also the youngest head coach to win the NBA Finals since Bill Russell did so in 1969 as a player-coach and is the ninth youngest head coach to win the Finals in NBA history.