{"id":27666,"date":"2025-01-21T09:19:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T09:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=27666"},"modified":"2025-01-21T09:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T09:19:29","slug":"breaking-celtics-joe-mazzulla-explains-significance-of-playing-on-mlk-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=27666","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Celtics’ Joe Mazzulla explains significance of playing on MLK Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“It’s good to coach on a day like this, but I think the bigger picture for me is the ability to have the platform that we have as a team to do that throughout the regular season.”<\/h2>\n
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The Celtics and Warriors honored MLK Jr. before their game on Monday. Ezra Shaw\/Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/header>\n

Joe Mazzulla understands the gravity of playing and coaching NBA games on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.<\/p>\n

For a Celtics team rich in its history of activism, past and present \u2013 from legendary player, coach, and human rights activist Bill Russell to current stars like Jaylen Brown and Jrue Holiday \u2013 playing on this day is of great importance.<\/p>\n

Prior to tip-off of the Celtics-Warriors matchup on MLK Day, Mazzulla took time to reflect on why playing on the remembrance day is significant, and how he hopes to use his platform all year round.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NBA calendar presents opportunities to build a platform on many different days, whether that\u2019s Martin Luther King, whether it\u2019s Christmas, whether it\u2019s Easter,\u201d Mazzulla told reporters Monday. \u201cI think Steve Kerr does a great job throughout the voting process.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have a team like us, who has the opportunity to be on a platform \u2026 you try to take advantage of that. So yeah, it\u2019s good to coach on a day like this, but I think the bigger picture for me is the ability to have the platform that we have as a team to do that throughout the regular season.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joe Mazzulla on Coaching on MLK Day:<\/p>\n

"It is good to coach on a day like this … what I like the most is that our guys are willing to take on that platform and that responsibility. You see the work in which what Jaylen does you've seen what Jayson has done, you see what Jrue has\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/tfxvHFkyqc<\/a><\/p>\n

— Celtics on CLNS (@CelticsCLNS) January 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n