{"id":498561,"date":"2026-05-27T07:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=498561"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:38:15","slug":"joe-mazzulla-named-2025-26-nba-coach-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/joe-mazzulla-named-2025-26-nba-coach-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Mazzulla named 2025-26 NBA Coach of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1407\" data-end=\"1648\"><strong data-start=\"1407\" data-end=\"1423\">Joe Mazzulla<\/strong> has been named <strong data-start=\"1439\" data-end=\"1472\">2025-26 NBA Coach of the Year<\/strong>. The <strong data-start=\"1478\" data-end=\"1496\">Boston Celtics<\/strong> head coach led Boston to 56 wins and the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference despite <strong data-start=\"1583\" data-end=\"1599\">Jayson Tatum<\/strong> missing most of the season with a torn Achilles.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1650\" data-end=\"1895\">Mazzulla received 62 first-place votes and 392 total points, finishing ahead of <strong data-start=\"1730\" data-end=\"1750\">J.B. Bickerstaff<\/strong> of the Detroit Pistons and <strong data-start=\"1778\" data-end=\"1795\">Mitch Johnson<\/strong> of the San Antonio Spurs. At 37, he is the youngest winner of the award since Phil Johnson in 1975.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1897\" data-end=\"2143\">\u201cThe process towards a championship is the No. 1 goal,\u201d Mazzulla said, while also crediting his players, staff and the entire organization. He becomes the fourth Celtics coach to win the award, joining Red Auerbach, Tommy Heinsohn and Bill Fitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics coach won the award after leading his team to 56 wins and the No. 2 seed in the East despite Jayson Tatum missing most of the season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":498560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-498561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/HJSG0hjWgAEmPs3.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498561"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=498561"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=498561"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=498561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}