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Celtics Owner Says He Threatened Jazz Exec If He Stole Assistant Coach

Steal one coach from Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck, all is well. Try to steal a second, and the gloves are off.

During an interview on The Greg Hill Show, Grousbeck talked about how Jazz CEO of basketball operations Danny Ainge hired former Celtics assistant Will Hardy to be the organization’s new coach and that he wouldn’t allow him to do it twice. Ainge, who stepped down as the Celtics president of basketball operations in 2021 to take the job in Utah, also apparently tried to recruit Boston interim coach Joe Mazzulla before Ime Udoka’s year-long suspension, and Grousbeck wasn’t having it.