{"id":404265,"date":"2026-01-13T07:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/404265\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T07:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:31:11","slug":"celtics-mazzulla-answers-all-questions-after-loss-with-illegal-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/404265\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics’ Mazzulla answers all questions after loss with ‘illegal screen’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Mazzulla didn’t mince words after the Boston Celtics<\/a>‘ last-second loss to the Indiana Pacers<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n

In fact, he used only two of them. On repeat.<\/p>\n

Mazzulla was asked six questions after the 98-96<\/a> defeat in Indianapolis, and to each one, his answer was the same: “Illegal screen.”<\/p>\n

Question: Take us through the last couple of possessions?<\/p>\n

Mazzulla: Illegal screen.<\/p>\n

Question: What’d you say?<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/a><\/p>\n

Mazzulla: Illegal screen.<\/p>\n

Question: Illegal screen?<\/p>\n

Mazzulla: Illegal screen.<\/p>\n

Question: What fell apart to get you guys behind?<\/p>\n

Mazzulla: Illegal screen.<\/p>\n

Question: What do you want people to know about that?<\/p>\n

Mazzulla: Illegal screen.<\/p>\n

Question: Is there anything else you would like to say?<\/p>\n

Mazzulla: Illegal screen.<\/p>\n

Mazzulla’s likely point of contention came in the closing seconds, when Pacers star Pascal Siakam<\/a> set a screen at the top of the 3-point arc, causing Boston’s Derrick White<\/a> to lose his balance.<\/p>\n

Siakam got the ball back from Andrew Nembhard<\/a>, pump-faked and stepped inside the foul line for the high-arcing leaner that banked through with 6.1 seconds to give Indiana a victory.<\/p>\n

The Celtics have had recent issues with officiating.<\/p>\n

Earlier Monday, star Jaylen Brown<\/a> was fined $35,000<\/a> by the NBA after he criticized the officiating following the team’s loss to the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Mazzulla didn’t mince words after the Boston Celtics‘ last-second loss to the Indiana Pacers on Monday night.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-404265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}