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There have been 18 head coaches for the Boston Celtics franchise. The Celtics won their first NBA championship in the 1957 NBA Finals under the coaching of Red Auerbach. Auerbach is the franchise's all-time leader in the number of regular-season and playoff wins as a coach. [2]
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). He played college basketball for West Virginia University as a point guard.
A list of current and former head coaches of the Basketball Association of America and National Basketball Association's Boston Celtics. Pages in category "Boston Celtics head coaches" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
The Boston Celtics logo features a leprechaun spinning a basketball, named Lucky, originally depicted with a large basketball for a background. It was originally designed by Zang Auerbach, the brother of Celtics head coach Red Auerbach. [219] Through the 1995–96 season, the logo's only colors were green, white and black. [220]
On July 3, 2013, Stevens was hired as the head coach of the Boston Celtics. [85] In his second season as head coach, Stevens led the team to the 2015 playoffs as the #7-seed in the Eastern Conference with a 40–42 record. [4] On April 21, 2015, it was announced that Stevens finished fourth in voting for the NBA's Coach of the Year Award. [86]
After the 1987–88 season, head coach K.C. Jones retired. Jones' teams had had the best regular season record in the Eastern Conference in all five of his seasons as coach. In addition, he led the Celtics to four NBA Finals appearances and two NBA Championships. Jones was replaced as head coach by assistant Jimmy Rodgers.
When Joe Mazzulla was officially named the 19 th coach in Boston Celtics history on Feb. 16, 2023, Jamal Gomes described it as one of the proudest days of his life.. Gomes, the current athletic ...
[32] He became the franchise's sixth African-American head coach, as well as the first head coach of African origin in NBA history. [33] Udoka in 2022. Although the Celtics began the 2021–22 season with an 18–21 record, they began a turnaround in January and finished as the #2-seed in the Eastern Conference with a 51–31 record.