{"id":1175,"date":"2023-10-15T02:47:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T23:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/1175\/boston-celtics-hire-jeff-van-gundy-senior-consultant\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T19:45:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T16:45:17","slug":"boston-celtics-hire-jeff-van-gundy-senior-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics hire Jeff Van Gundy as senior consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Celtics hire Jeff Van Gundy as senior consultant\u060c<\/p>\n

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The Boston Celtics have hired former longtime head coach and ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy as a senior consultant in their basketball operations group.<\/p>\n

Van Gundy, 61, was fired by ESPN in a cost-cutting move in late June after 16 years with the network. He coached for 11 seasons in the NBA<\/a>, going 430-318 with the New York Knicks (1995-2002) and Houston Rockets (2003-07).<\/p>\n

His teams went 44-44 in the playoffs and he led the Knicks to the Eastern Conference championship in 1999. The San Antonio Spurs defeated New York in five games to win<\/a> the NBA title.<\/p>\n

Celtic manager Joe Mazzulla described the hire as \u201cbrilliant\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny time you add high-level, high-level, professional people, I think it’s a no-brainer and it’s pretty fortunate that he’s there, not just for the coaching staff, but for the whole the world,” Mazzulla told reporters before. training Saturday.<\/p>\n

Van Gundy will split his time between Boston and Maine, home of the Celtics<\/a>‘ G League affiliate, MassLive reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boston Celtics hire Jeff Van Gundy as senior consultant\u060c The Boston Celtics have hired former longtime head coach and ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy as a senior consultant in their basketball operations group. Van Gundy, 61, was fired by ESPN in a cost-cutting move in late June after 16 years with the network. He coached […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1419,1420,1426,1424,1421,1422,1425,1423],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-boston","tag-celtics","tag-consultant","tag-gundy","tag-hire","tag-jeff","tag-senior","tag-van"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4254,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/4254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}