{"id":696872,"date":"2026-05-27T01:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/696872\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T01:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:43:11","slug":"celtics-coach-joe-mazzulla-wins-2025-26-nba-coach-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/696872\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla wins 2025-26 NBA Coach of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2218072\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/UPDATED_2025-2026_COTY_Joe-Mazzulla_16x9-safezone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.nba.com\/NBAapp_\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2022\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/link.nba.com\/NBAapp_\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download the NBA App<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/awards\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025-26 NBA Awards: Complete coverage<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/history-coach-of-the-year-winners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coach of the Year Award: All-Time Winners<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Boston Celtics exceeded expectations all season, and Joe Mazzulla was named the 2026 NBA Coach of the Year in recognition of their success.<\/p>\n<p>Mazzulla led the Celtics to a 56-26 record \u2014 his fourth straight 50-win campaign with Boston \u2014 despite star Jayson Tatum being unavailable for much of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics won 64 games and the NBA championship behind Mazzulla in 2024, and his career coaching record now stands at 238-90 (.726 winning percentage) in the regular season. The Celtics are also 36-21 under Mazzulla in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Mazzulla is the fourth Celtics coach to be Coach of the Year, and he\u2019s the first Celtics coach to capture the award since Bill Fitch in 1979-80. At 37 years old, he\u2019s the youngest NBA Coach of the Year Award-winner since Phil Johnson in 1974-75.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla has been named the 2025-26 NBA Coach of the Year, earning the Red Auerbach Trophy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rbu86oBhak\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Rbu86oBhak<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2059418785853952174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2218086 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJSJqzJasAALVm2-941x1176.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"941\" height=\"1176\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022\u00a0Download the NBA App\u2022\u00a02025-26 NBA Awards: Complete coverage\u2022\u00a0Coach of the Year Award: All-Time Winners The Boston Celtics exceeded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,339722,590,85],"class_list":["post-696872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-joe-mazzulla-2025-26-coach-of-the-year","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}