The Boston Celtics have finalized their coaching staff for the upcoming season, hiring six assistants and five player enhancement staff, according to a team release.
The new assistants that have been added to head coach Ime Udoka’s staff are Will Hardy, Damon Stoudamire, Ben Sullivan, Joe Mazzulla, Aaron Miles and Tony Dobbins.
The Celtics have also added Evan Bradds, Garrett Jackson, DJ MacLeay and Steve Tchiengang to its player enhancement staff as well. They also hired Matt Reynolds as a special assistant to the head coach.
Hardy has spent his entire coaching career with the San Antonio Spurs, including the last six seasons working as an assistant coach. He came on for them as a basketball operations intern and worked his way up. He also helped Team USA at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and served as the Spurs summer league head coach in 2017 and 2018.
Stoudamire has been the head coach of the University of Pacific men’s basketball team since 2016 after spending 13 years in the NBA. The No. 7 overall pick in the 1995 NBA draft is also a former Rookie of the Year.
Sullivan has been with the Milwaukee Bucks for the past three seasons, including their NBA title-winning 2021 season, and brings seven years of assistant coaching experience to Boston.
Miles will don the title of assistant coach for the first time at the professional level with Boston – he spent two years as an assistant for Kansas and Florida Gulf Coast, though. He has been the Golden State Warriors player development coach, a type of assistant coach but more focused on player development, and their G-League affiliate’s head coach before.
Dobbins and Mazzulla are set to return to Boston for their second and third seasons, respectively.
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