Celtics Coach Joe Mazzulla Officially Set To Lead Team Giannis At 2023 NBA All-Star Game

Boston will be well-represented at the 2023 NBA All-Star game

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Joe Mazzulla is having himself a year. 

The Boston Celtics interim head coach was thrust into the team's top spot just before training camp and has helped lead the squad to the best record in the NBA at 36-15 through 51 contests. 

Boston has had so much success that Mazzulla and his staff will be coaching Team Giannis in the 2023 NBA All-Star Game on Feb. 19 at Vivint Arena in Utah. 

Leading the East ✅

Coach is headed to Salt Lake City for #NBAAllStar pic.twitter.com/GpGbIbfqAN

— Boston Celtics (@celtics) January 31, 2023

The NBA All-Star team head coaches typically are the Eastern and Western Conference head coaches of the conference leaders midway through the season. The NBA has altered its rules and now a head coach cannot coach the All-Star team in back-to-back seasons so in those cases, the head coach from the second place team takes the lead.

Mazzulla is the first Boston head coach to take the reins at the NBA All-Star game since Brad Stevens led the Eastern Conference All-Stars in 2017. Mazzulla joins Stevens, Doc Rivers (twice), Chris Ford (once), K.C. Jones (four times), Bill Fitch (once), Tommy Heinsohn (four times) Red Auerbach (11 times) as the only head coaches in team history to lead an All-Star team. 

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