Thankfully for the Celtics, rookie shooting guard Baylor Scheierman does not see Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla sending him to Maine as a demotion.

They were drinking apple cider, taking selfies, and watching President Joe Biden execute a pump fake. But, Friday night against the young and unestablished Wizards, the Celtics got off to a sluggish start.

Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla was called for a technical foul in the third quarter of Friday night's win over the Washington Wizards. The foul, seen below, was assessed to Mazzulla as he was being held back from referees by assistant coaches Tony Dobbins and Sam Cassell.

It was sparked by Joe Mazzulla when he took a technical for the team in an attempt to ignite the atmosphere inside the arena. And it worked, acting as the turning point in a 108-96 Celtics win. Boston was trailing 66-63 with around five minutes left in the third when Jaylen Brown drove for a layup and missed while seemingly drawing contact.

Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla knows that even friends can be a distraction at times, and he explained how with a story about a hug.

The Boston Celtics are set to take on the Toronto Raptors in their 14th game of the young season on Saturday. The Celtics sit with a 10-3 record and will look t

Mazzulla has become the most interesting sports figure in New England. After years of aggressively vanilla Brad Stevens and strategically boring Ime Udoka, when Mazzulla sits in front of a microphone, nobody knows what might come out of his mouth and nobody wants to miss it.

But when it comes to Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla, a very different approach to physicality is evident. Not only does Mazzulla not eschew physicality for his stars, he seeks it out up and down the roster.

Could you feel that?” Mazzulla said. "It wasn't really about energizing the team, it was really about manipulating the environme