What does it mean to be the head coach of the Boston Celtics?
And now current Boston head coach Joe Mazzulla is among them with a title to his name as coach of the Celtics, so the Rhode Island native knows something about the answer to that question. The man himself took a stab at answering it on a recent episode from fellow New England sports legend Julian Edelman's "Games with Names" podcast,
Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what Mazzulla had to say about what it means to coach the Celtics.
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