{"id":185178,"date":"2025-07-21T10:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/185178\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:44:08","slug":"is-celtics-head-coach-joe-mazzulla-a-top-ten-coach-in-the-nba-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/185178\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla a top ten coach in the NBA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Is Boston Celtics<\/a> head coach a top ten coach in the NBA? With legends like San Antonio Spurs<\/a> head coach Gregg Popovich retiring from that role and a number of highly regarded head coaches like Tom Thibodeau (last with the New York Knicks<\/a>) and Taylor Jenkins (formerly with the Memphis Grizzlies<\/a>) now looking for another such post in the NBA, there are fewer coaches on the level or at least in the same stratosphere as Miami Heat<\/a> head coach Erik Spoelstra and Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> head coach Mark Daigneault.<\/p>\n

So where would we put Mazzulla among his peers at the helm of NBA teams for the coming 2025-26 regular season? With a title to his name, he very clearly does not belong in the lower third of the league’s coaches, and one would struggle to make a case for him lower than the midpoint of the league’s coaches at No. 15 overall. But is he at least four slots higher in most estimations?<\/p>\n

The folks behind the “98.5 The Sports Hub” YouTube channel put together a clip from their “Felger and Mazz” show to talk it over. Check it out below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is Boston Celtics head coach a top ten coach in the NBA? With legends like San Antonio Spurs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[673,7,45,75,46,311,1364,294,144,1777,2675,304,2734,293,177,295,189,70,85,6,239,191,67,310,179,672,474,66,1935,83,534,312,1930,73,303],"class_list":{"0":"post-185178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-antonio","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-boston-celtics","12":"tag-celtics","13":"tag-city","14":"tag-coaching","15":"tag-grizzlies","16":"tag-heat","17":"tag-joe","18":"tag-joe-mazzulla","19":"tag-knicks","20":"tag-mazzulla","21":"tag-memphis","22":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","23":"tag-miami","24":"tag-miami-heat","25":"tag-national","26":"tag-national-sports","27":"tag-nba","28":"tag-new","29":"tag-new-york-knicks","30":"tag-news","31":"tag-oklahoma","32":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","33":"tag-san","34":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","35":"tag-sports","36":"tag-sports-coaching-u0026-training","37":"tag-sports-news","38":"tag-spurs","39":"tag-thunder","40":"tag-training","41":"tag-u0026","42":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114890818463608894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}