The Celtics’ orca-loving Joe Mazzulla is an NBA oddball. He’s also a masterful coach

The 37-year-old may come across as corny and gauche. But he’s already won one NBA championship and it probably won’t be his last

The Boston Celtics’ head coach, Joe Mazzulla, is a very odd man. He is also a very good coach.

Take, for example, a story Celtics guard Derrick White told in an interview last November. According to White, the first sound at one Celtics practice wasn’t a whistle.