Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla won the NBA's Coach of the Year Award on Tuesday night, beating out JB Bickerstaff of the Detroit Pistons and Mitch Johnson of the San Antonio Spurs.

By winning the award, Mazzulla also made history on multiple fronts. As noted by NBA PR, Mazzulla is the first Celtics head coach to win the award since Bill Fitch in 1979-80. He's the fourth Celtics coach to win, including Fitch, Red Auerbach and Tom Heinsohn.

And at 37 years old, Mazzulla is the youngest head coach to win the award since Phil Johnson more than 50 years ago.

He received 62 out of 100 first-place votes. 

Yes, the Celtics had a disappointing first-round exit in the NBA playoffs against the Philadelphia 76ers, but this award is a regular season award and Mazzulla is absolutely deserving based on that. Not only did he lead the Celtics to a 56-26 record and the No. 2 seed in the East, he did it in the face of little expectations, much adversity and major roster turnover.

Boston traded Jrue Holliday and Kristaps Porzingis last offseason, eroding a championship core from 2023-24. They also saw Al Horford leave in free agency and Jayson Tatum was limited to just 16 games because of his Achilles recovery. Mazzulla helped navigate all of that with the help of Jaylen Brown, a continually improving Payton Pritchard, and an emerging group of big men, including Neemias Queta.

The player development side of things was humming in the form of Queta, Baylor Scheireman and Hugn Gonzalez, while Mazzulla helped get the best out of Brown, who averaged 28.7 ppg and finished sixth in the MVP voting.

In addition to Mazzulla's win, Brown was named to the NBA's All-Second Team on Sunday. Derrick White was named First-Team All-Defense as well.

But despite Brown's accomplishments and great season, he still believes he can get better, and he has a plan for doing so this offseason. Speaking on his Twitch stream on Sunday, Brown said he hasn't reached his limit yet and added that he hopes to connect with Steve Nash, Kevin Garnett, James Harden and Hakeem Olajuwon for workouts over the summer.

--Former Celtics big trade piece Evan Fournier just earned a major accolade in the EuroLeague, being named as the MVP of the EuroLeague Final Four over the weekend. He's playing for Olympiacos, who won the title.

As noted by RealGM, Fournier had 30 points in two Final Four games, while also adding nine rebounds and eight assists.

Still only 33 years old, Fournier spent 12 years in the NBA with the Orlando Magic, Celtics, New York Knicks, Detroit Pistons and Denver Nuggets. He was with the Celtics in 2020-21 after being acquired from the Magic. He played just 16 games for Boston in the regular season, scoring 13.0 ppg. While there were other draft picks in the deal, Boston gave up Jeff Teague to Orlando as the main player center piece. 

He played five games for the Celtics in the playoffs, scoring 15.4 ppg as the Celtics lost to the Brooklyn Nets in five games.

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