About a year ago, the Boston Celtics were poised to make history by sending the first interim coach to helm the NBA’s 2023 All-Star Game, which is why the Celtics will not be having Mazzulla coaching the 2024 All-Star Game.
The rules prohibit repeat performances in that role, sending the nod to a Boston coaching alumnus in Doc Rivers (now with the Milwaukee Bucks) instead, who coached the game himself as Celtics head coach in 2008. With all of that in mind, let’s take a look at the Boston alumni who have done the same over the course of the event’s long history. A total of seven Celtics coaches have earned the right to coach the All-Star game by owning the East’s best record that season.
Let’s take a look at who they were and the seasons that it happened in.
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Red Auerbach (1957-67)
Tommy Heinsohn (1972-74, 1976)
KC Jones (1984-87)
Chris Ford (1991)
Doc Rivers (2008)
Brad Stevens (2017)
Joe Mazzulla (2023)
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