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DJ Macleay on Joe Mazzulla naming him head coach of the Sin City Celtics

MacLeay talked about his goals and expectations for Jordan Walsh, Neemias Queta, Jaden Springer and others in Las Vegas.

It was not all that long ago that current Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla was himself being named the head coach of the Celtics’ squad for the NBA’s Las Vegas Summer League, only to work his way up through the ranks to take the helm of the regular roster down the road.

So it is no minor move on the part of the Celtics head coach to elevate DJ Macleay to the role he himself once held for the 2024 iteration of the Sin City Celtics for this summer’s Las Vegas Summer League. MacLeay talked about his goals and expectations for Jordan Walsh, Neemias Queta, Jaden Springer and others in Las Vegas, along with what it’s like for him to help coach them and replace Charles Lee on the staff, in a recent interview with CLNS Media.

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Report: Celtics hire D.J. MacLeay as new player enhancement coach

Boston continues to shore up new head coach Ime Udoka’s staff.

New Boston Celtics head coach Ime Udoka’s staff is close to if not complete with reports of the hiring of DJ MacLeay as a new player enhancement coach for the team, per The Athletic’s Clevis Murray.

MacLeay had most recently been employed by the Celtics’ Atlantic Division rival Philadelphia 76ers for the last four seasons, one of which overlapped with both Udoka’s and recently-returned Boston big man Al Horford’s tenures with that club, Udoka as a defensive specialist assistant coach. The new Celtics assistant had reportedly worked as a video coordinator over the course of the last three seasons with the Sixers.

MacLeay had played basketball collegiately for the Bucknell Bisons as a forward from 2013 to 2017, where he averaged 3.5 points and 3.1 rebounds per game.

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