Celtics senior consultant Jeff Van Gundy reportedly could join head coach Joe Mazzulla on the Boston's staff next season.
will lose at least one and possibly two experienced assistant coaches this summer. But they're apparently mulling an interesting contingency plan.
The Celtics are exploring the idea of adding senior consultant Jeff Van Gundy to head coach Joe Mazzulla's coaching staff next season,Van Gundy spent 10-plus seasons as an NBA head coach with the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets before transitioning to a broadcast career with ESPN. In October 2023, heand has been a fixture at practices, home games and road trips while also spending time with the Maine Celtics of the G-League.."...
, while veteran assistant Sam Cassell reportedly has interviewed for multiple NBA head coach openings. By bringing Van Gundy to the bench, Mazzulla would have a valuable resource with more than three decades of NBA experience.."And as the season goes on, it becomes hard at times to take a 30,000-foot view, because you're working with these guys every day and you're in it, and you're staff is in it.
"So to have a guy who can take a step back and see the organization from the outside -- he's scouting us, so we're going to know ourselves better than others because he's looking at us every single day and studying us. He has a non-biased perspective. It's like, 'Here's what you're doing well, here's what you're not, and here's what I see.'
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