Kid reporter asks to Joe Mazzula: “It’s Kid’s Day at the Garden… How do you balance pushing players to improve while keeping the game fun for them?”

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1. Most normal Joe Mazzula answer

2. Good question and good answer.

3. Title should have been ‘Joe Mazzulla’, sorry for the mistake. If mods can fix it I would really appreciate it.

4. lol, Grinch-Mazzulla, surprised he didn’t tell the kid “Fuck you, there is no Santa Claus and everyone you know is going to eventually die so don’t get too attached to anyone”

   Best coach for the C’s I’ve seen since I became a fan haha

5. Only joe mazzulla would answer a kids question by saying fun is a cop out 😂

6. I know we joke about Joe Mazzula being crazy – but is he legitimately crazy or just the greatest character actor of his generation?

7. I crack so hard when he says “I just wanna have fun… What does that mean?”

8. He’s like wtf is that fun shit, this is work you better be grinding 24/7.

9. Girls just want to have fun. Are you a girl? No. You’re a cop out.

10. In other words: what do you mean fun you fucking loser 😂

11. Actually a good answer

12. Crazy Joe looks like the kid in the back of class that only wore dirty grey sweats, a jansport backpack with nothing in it, and only talked about anime and never took showers

13. Bro asked a simple question and he said “define fun” lmao

14. This man is a national treasure 

15. Great answer tbh

16. His nephews must be in hell rn

17. 11 year old: How do you make the game fun?

    Joe: Fun is bullshit

18. The fun stops here, kid

19. Check this guys basement.

20. “Fun is when you’re flipping channels and you find out The Town is on”

21. Joe is like good question. i’ve struggled with it myself. i don’t know what fun is but i enjoy telling the team to chuck up threes no matter what

22. I think the guy is a weirdo but I agree with his answer. He just isn’t very articulate. If he means what I think he means, as a coach you need to recognize that especially for those at a high level, competing is fun. Battling is fun. Coaching gym class basketball and coaching kids trying to take the next step probably requires defining fun differently.

23. Joe: Fun is destroying your enemies and laying waste to their cities
    Kid: Ugh… in basketball
    Joe: uh, yeah, in basketball. Next question

24. not only did he give a legitimate answer but also taught the kid a lesson about the struggles of being an adult

25. he should go into acting because no way is he this good at playing a sociopath

26. kid gonna have an existential crisis when he goes home

27. Kid sounds like he’s been on the beat for 40 years.

28. This man is insane. lol

29. Why is he always scratching his neck. Is he on drugs?

30. It would have been hilarious if that was the same kid who asked Mike Tyson about what legacy means. “Why does this keep happening to me!”

31. He’s got Kash Patel eyes going on

32. Joe: Make a wish for what? How would you gain happiness or satisfaction from something that you didn’t really work towards? I think about that.

33. Thank heavens this man found enough success in sports. We should all be thankful and all the people who are still alive because of it should be too

34. Somehow the Lakers and Celtics have the two psychos as coaches….

35. He must be fun at parties lol

36. People are ragging on this a bit but he was respectful and genuine and treated the kid like an equal. Kids appreciate that stuff. I’m an 8th grade teacher and I’m only able to make the small impact I’m able to make because I don’t talk down to them, I don’t patronize them. Kids sense bullshit and disingenuous speech better than people realize, they just lack the confidence to call it out, but it affects them.

    Beyond that, he’s right. “Just go have fun” is a platitude with no meaning unless you define fun. Is losing fun? Basketball can be fun, win or lose, when you’re young. But at a certain age and a certain level, which miles away from the NBA BTW, it’s no longer fun to just play basketball. It’s fun to win and succeed.

37. Telling a kid ‘define fun’ is incredible

38. Random kid: How do you ensure your players are having fun?

    Mazzula: fuck having fun. Good question.

39. the kid’s quick/terse “thank you” at the end is killing me lmao

    mazzula lays so much heavy shit on this kid:

    * he teaches a child a harsh reality that adults don’t have all the answers and that they struggle with character issues
    * he challenges the definition of “fun”
    * he mocks some peoples’ definition of fun by literally saying “hurr durr let’s have fun”

    this is my coach – LET’S FUCKING GO!

40. Who in PR let Joe Mazulla anywhere near a child?!?! 😂😂😂

41. Joe Mazz to the kids: Fuck your fun.

42. I love how every Joe Mazzula answer is the most Joe Mazzula answer possible