Spider-Man is awesome. People love Spider-Man.
Basketball is awesome. People love basketball.
Spider-Man and basketball have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
But Joe Mazzulla found a way.
“Ever seen Spider-Man? … Into the Spider-Verse? There’s like, 20 different Spider-Men? That’s like our team,” Mazzulla told reporters.
Mazzulla is a quote machine. Every game, he spits out a new phrase that goes viral on social media, and fans either love him or hate him for it. There’s rarely an in-between.
The Boston Celtics head coach has been an erratic ball of entertainment, at one point even prompting the media to ask him about his favorite movie scene.
“No one’s ever asked me what my favorite scene from ‘The Town’ was,” Mazzulla said. “I know you guys know that’s my favorite movie. None of you have ever been curious what my favorite scene is? My favorite one is Dougie MacRay getting ready to leave the town,” Mazzulla added. “And he skips by the FBI’s car and he leaves a nice, well-thought-out handwritten note underneath the antenna and then gets out of town. That’s my favorite scene.”
Joe Mazzulla:
By the way, no one has ever asked what my favorite scene in the Town is. Doesn’t any one want to ask?
Mazzulla then tells us his favorite scene: pic.twitter.com/IlWzhvcl5X
— Cameron Tabatabaie (@CTabatabaie) January 10, 2024
(Extra context for this one: Mazzulla was asked about coaches criticizing referees and his thoughts on some calls. Go look up what the note he’s talking about said…)
From movie references to consistently looking at the PR team when a reporter asks him about injury availability, off-the-rails antics have become a Mazzulla staple.
His quotes have become so unique that they almost seem AI-generated…
Are they?
Here are 14 quotes from Mazzulla. Except seven of them were generated by AI.
Celtics fans may know which ones are from the man himself, but that’s only because they’ve paid close attention. For those that haven’t, can you spot the difference?
1. “That makes me think about how each coaching realm is different,” Mazzulla said. “How the baseball managers wear their jerseys. And then hockey wears suits. Football, you get to wear hats. Like, I’d like to wear a hat and a hoodie on the sideline, but you know, apparently, that’s not allowed. For whatever reason.”
2. “Are you wearing a tie?” Mazzulla asked a reporter. “Wow. I was gonna say, seeing some of your outfits,…
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