The Read & React series is intended to share/aggregate stories written by other outlets but also provide my own response and/or reaction to the subject material.
Joe Mazzulla is an unknown entity for most of the basketball world. So when he was thrust onto center stage as the new head coach of the Boston Celtics, it only makes sense that multiple outlets would be covering his backstory in detail. Today, I’m sharing links and quotes from articles written by Chris Mannix (SI.com) and Adam Himmelsbach (The Boston Globe). Both are well worth the read on their own, but below are my thoughts on some choice passages.