Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla and his workers performed reporters in a pickup sport. It went as anticipated – Boston Information, Climate, Sports activities

BOSTON (AP) — Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla desires to win, regardless of the opponent.

Even when enjoying towards reporters.

Right here’s what occurred: The Celtics had advised their reporters that they might use the Auerbach Heart courts for a media sport after apply on Tuesday. However Mazzulla had a shock deliberate as nicely.

“You’re not enjoying towards one another,” Mazzulla advised the group. “You’re enjoying towards the coaches.”

With that, he walked away from the post-practice media scrum. Sport on.

Effectively, kind of.

Remaining rating: Celtics coaches 57, Celtics media 4. And sure, the coaches have been nonetheless taking pictures deep 3-pointers as time expired. Mazzulla truly fist-pumped after the ultimate basket. There was no working out the ultimate seconds of a lopsided sport, as would usually be the case in an NBA contest.

“I do know Joe wished to maintain us scoreless,” Boston.com’s Khari A. Thompson good-naturedly posted on X after the sport. It must be famous that Thompson was answerable for one of many two baskets by the reporters.

In equity, the Celtics’ coaches who performed Tuesday have been no slouches. Amile Jefferson received a nationwide championship at Duke. Mazzulla and Da’Sean Butler performed within the Remaining 4 with West Virginia. Phil Pressey scored 4 or extra factors 52 instances in his NBA enjoying profession. The media contingent certainly knew it had no probability. The coaches ended the sport on a 15-0 run, which kind of doesn’t matter contemplating in addition they began the sport on a 42-2 run.

“The sheer hole in athleticism — pace, dimension, instincts, you title it — felt so insurmountable that I can hardly pinpoint what even went down,” Celtics reporter Noa Dalzell wrote after the sport. “I’d love to try a field rating, however the quantity of live-ball turnovers we accrued would in all probability make me sick.”

Mazzulla, to his credit score, caught round for the “actual” media sport afterward. Remaining rating there: 25-22.