Celtics’ Joe Mazzulla Gives On-Brand Reaction To Luka Doncic Trade

All anybody wanted to talk about Sunday in the basketball world was the seismic Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis trade.

Well, everyone except Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla.

Mazzulla didn’t want to take any time discussing the trade and he made that very known when he started his pregame press conference prior to the Celtics facing the Philadelphia 76ers at Wells Fargo Center.

“Don’t ask about the trades. I don’t really care,” Mazzulla told reporters, per CLNS Media.

The response from Mazzulla is unsurprising. While he probably does have a thought or two on the trade, which saw the Dallas Mavericks stunningly send Doncic, Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris to the Los Angeles Lakers for Davis, Max Christie and a 2029 first-round pick, he’s practicing what he preaches by not getting distracted by things he can’t control.

It’s probably a good thing Mazzulla is keeping his focus strictly on the Celtics. Boston has won three of its last four games, but mostly played .500 basketball over the last month-plus and it’s up to Mazzulla to get them on a better track.

So a conversation with Mazzulla about LA acquiring a perennial MVP candidate who will presumably jump-start the Celtics-Lakers rivalry will have to wait until the offseason.

In the meantime, Al Horford had no problem talking about the trade that shocked the NBA. The veteran center said it was “one of the bigger moves in NBA history” and compared the nature of the trade to when LeBron James chose the Miami Heat in free agency in July 2010.

“We were all in disbelief,” Horford told reporters, per CLNS Media. “We didn’t think it was real.”