NEW YORK -- Joe Mazzulla's Christmas greetings were costly.
The NBA fined the Boston Celtics coach $35,000 on Saturday "for aggressively pursuing and directing inappropriate language toward a game official" at the end of his team's loss to the Chicago Bulls on Thursday night.
Mazzulla's outburst followed Boston getting whistled for three technical fouls -- he got one, Jaylen Brown got one and Jayson Tatum got one -- in the fourth quarter of that 117-108 loss. When time expired, Mazzulla appeared to have some angry words for referee Justin Van Duyne.