Upon being elevated to interim coach of the Celtics on Sept. 22 of last year, Joe Mazzulla was fairly green. He'd been a Boston assistant since the summer of 2019, but at just 34 years old was faced with shuffling his team's staff about a month before the start of the season.
Faced with this tall task, Mazzulla contemplated turning to an NBA lifer: former 15-year point guard JJ Redick. He documented his recruitment of the Duke legend on Redick's podcast, The Old Man & The Three, Wednesday morning.
Redick set up the story by recalling a trip to New England he'd taken last fall, interrupted when he received a call informing him Mazzulla was now coaching the Celtics.
