JJ Redick describes how his shot at assistant coaching the Boston Celtics came up – and why he passed

Timing, it seems, is everything.

Not long after news got out that former NBAer and current host of the “Old Man and the 3” podcast JJ Redick let it slip that he had been asked to join the coaching staff of the Boston Celtics under interim head coach Joe Mazzulla in the wake of the Ime Udoka scandal, we now have the backstory courtesy of a recent interview of Redick by Bleacher Report’s Taylor Rooks.

Redick explained that after getting a handful of coaching offers last summer, the Boston opportunity arose ahead of a trip to Massachusetts. “The Boston thing happened so quick,” said the former Pelicans wing to Rooks.

“It was a Thursday when the news broke,” he added. “By Friday, I was talking to Brad (Stevens); by Sunday, I was playing golf with Joe.”