Before his rise within the Celtics organization, Joe Mazzulla was considered for the Utah Jazz’s head coaching vacancy.
Mazzulla lost out on the job to a different former Boston assistant, Will Hardy, and everything seemed to work itself out in the long run. Ahead of the Celtics-Jazz matchup on Friday night, Mazzulla looked back on his interview with Utah.
Outside of a lack of fondness for suits — which he vowed not to wear after that day — Mazzulla recalled a lot of value in that opportunity, even though he lost out on the job.
“I appreciated that I got to go through that, especially doing it out of a different organization,” Mazzulla said.