The Boston Celtics players celebrated their historic victory in the most conventional fashion possible, with head coach Joe Mazzulla immediately popping champagne bottles.

After his team defeated the Dallas Mavericks 106-88 on Monday night, the 35-year-old, who became the youngest coach to win an NBA championship since 1970, remained at TD Garden for several hours.

According to the Boston Herald, Mazzulla and his wife, Camai Mazzulla, were seen holding hands as they walked around the vacant arena.

On X, reporter Andrew Callahan wrote, “Joe Mazzulla and his wife are holding hands, walking around the parquet.” It’s 3:20 a.m.

They’ve already done a few laps. Mazzulla motions to several spots in the arena. “Taking it all in,” he continued.mpagne.

Camai, meanwhile, shared a sweet photo of her husband joyfully raising the Larry O’Brien championship trophy into the air on her Instagram Story.
She wrote, echoing the 2004 romance movie The Notebook, “If you’re a bird, I’m a bird.”

The second-year coach and his wife originally worked together at Glenville State College in 2011, where she was the head volleyball coach and he was the assistant basketball coach.

Despite the couple’s low-key celebration, Joe’s team continued to pop gold bottles of champagne till the early morning.

Following their Larry O’Brien Trophy victory, the Celtics relocated their celebration from the court to the locker room.

There, the champagne and beer started flowing.

During the Celtics’ series against the Mavericks, Joe stunned the press room into silence by uncomfortably avoiding a reporter’s question during a news conference.

He was asked about the reverence surrounding the NBA finals, which included two Black head coaches for the first time in over 50 years.

Both he and Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd are Black. 

‘For the first time since 1975, this is the NBA Finals where you have two black head coaches,’ Vince Goodwill of Yahoo Sports began. 

Do you think this is a historic event, given the difficulties that black head coaches in the NBA periodically face? Are you proud of this? The journalist questioned Joe, “How do you see this, or do you not see it at all?”

In an unusually frank reaction, he avoided the subject by praising his Christian faith.

He said, “I wonder how many of those have been Christian coaches,” and there was an almost ten-second gap in which no one replied.

In his response, he may have alluded to Kidd’s Catholicism.