{"id":667238,"date":"2026-05-27T02:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/667238\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T02:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:59:10","slug":"ris-joe-mazzulla-wins-2025-26-nba-coach-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/667238\/","title":{"rendered":"RI&#8217;s Joe Mazzulla Wins 2025-26 NBA Coach of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    RI&#8217;s Joe Mazzulla Wins 2025-26 NBA Coach of the Year<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:360\/502;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Joe_Mazzulla_NBA_Trophy_Sept_3_2024_PHOTO_GOLOCAL.png\" width=\"360\" height=\"502\" loading=\"lazy\" isopen=\"true&quot;\"\/>Joe Mazzulla PHOTO: GoLocal<\/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. Mazzulla is a Johnston, Rhode Island native.<\/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><a class=\"font-bold text-brand-teal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golocalprov.com\/newsletter\" style=\"display:block;margin-bottom:10px;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE &#8212; SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST<\/a><\/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>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        <img :src=\"https:\/\/www.golocalprov.com\/sports\/modalImage\" alt=\"Selected Image\" class=\"w-full max-w-3xl h-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n          GoLocalProv Sports Team\n                  <\/p>\n<p>        Related Articles<\/p>\n<p>      Enjoy this post? Share it with others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RI&#8217;s Joe Mazzulla Wins 2025-26 NBA Coach of the Year Joe Mazzulla PHOTO: GoLocal The Boston Celtics exceeded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[28,46264,10357,88,46260,6270,355,3,46265,11748,880,46261,46263,46262,99,2986],"class_list":["post-667238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-business","tag-campaign-2014","tag-digital-news","tag-entertainment","tag-golocalprov","tag-investigation","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-ocean-state","tag-providence","tag-rhode-island","tag-rhode-island-news","tag-rhode-island-politics","tag-rhode-island-sports","tag-sports","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667238","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=667238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}