BOSTON — I didn’t wake up Tuesday thinking the Boston Celtics coaches would deliver me the most humiliating basketball moment of my life. As far as I knew, the local media members were scheduled to play a pickup game against each other on the Auerbach Center court. That was the initial plan until head coach Joe Mazzulla revealed otherwise after his team’s early afternoon practice.
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“I don’t want to break it to you,” Mazzulla said, “but you’re not playing against each other. You’re playing against the coaches.”
If Mazzulla was serious (it turned out he was), I recognized severe pain was coming for me — and not just because, at age 38, my knees and back no longer work properly. The Celtics coaching staff is loaded with great players. Sam Cassell, Phil Pressey and Amile Jefferson competed in the NBA.
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