{"id":514318,"date":"2026-01-03T17:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/514318\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:34:15","slug":"celtics-joe-mazzulla-accomplishes-impressive-feat-for-fourth-straight-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/514318\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics&#8217; Joe Mazzulla Accomplishes Impressive Feat For Fourth Straight Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics superstar Jaylen Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/jaylen-brown-snubbed-sees-rival-win-major-nba-award\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was snubbed<\/a> for December\u2019s Eastern Conference Player of the Month award, but head coach Joe Mazzulla picked up the slack.<\/p>\n<p>Mazzulla was named the Eastern Conference Coach of the Month for December on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NBA Coaches of the Month for December! West: Mitch Johnson (Spurs) East: Joe Mazzulla (Celtics),\u201d the NBA\u2019s official account posted on Bluesky.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old Mazzulla has guided Boston to a 21-12 start thus far, exceeding expectations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s seen Brown put up career numbers in another <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/12\/jaylen-brown-debuts-as-lone-celtics-player-on-nba-all-star-game-fan-voting-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All-Star caliber campaign<\/a>, while getting the most out of unsung players like <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/12\/celtics-neemias-queta-tabbed-as-top-contender-for-this-nba-award\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">starting center Neemias Queta<\/a> and rookie first-round pick <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/12\/nba-insider-dishes-heavy-praise-for-celtics-rookie-hugo-gonzalez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hugo Gonzalez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mazzulla has now earned at least one Eastern Conference Coach of the Month award in each of his first four seasons at the helm.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics leader won the hardware during his first full month on the job in November 2022 and did it twice during the Celtics\u2019 title-winning 2023-24 campaign (December and March).<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Mazzulla was also the Eastern Conference Coach of the Month in March 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics superstar Jaylen Brown was snubbed for December\u2019s Eastern Conference Player of the Month award, but head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,2675,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-514318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-joe-mazzulla","10":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115832374286938830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514318","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=514318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}