Sam Cassell returned to the Boston Celtics and accepted an assistant place on head coach Joe Mazzulla’s workers final offseason
Nevertheless, he’s bold and hopeful that sometime an NBA staff will give him an opportunity to steer a training workers himself.
Even after the Celtics racked up a league-leading 64 common season wins, made straightforward work of the Dallas Mavericks within the NBA Finals, celebrated with a two-plus-mile-long duck boat parade and spent over $500 million to maintain the roster intact for a re-run, Cassell hasn’t overlooked his main purpose. Boston already misplaced Charles Lee, who joined the Charlotte Hornets as their latest head coach halfway via final postseason. It begged the query: May Cassell be the subsequent to go?
“I simply gotta discover a basic supervisor or president of a staff to only consider in me,” Cassell informed the “Come And Discuss 2 Me” podcast. “Consider that I can get this accomplished. I do know I can get it accomplished. I’m simply making an attempt to determine, simply engaged on myself yearly as a coach making an attempt to get higher. It ain’t the Xs and Os. I believe it’s simply the opposite little issues. Who is aware of what it’s? However I’m not gonna surrender till I get it. That’s how I used to be all my life. I nonetheless take pleasure in teaching the sport of basketball.”
Cassell was thought-about to exchange Darvin Ham as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, present process an interview with the Western Convention franchise throughout Boston’s semifinal playoff collection with the Cleveland Cavaliers in Might. Boston allowed Cassell to pursue the chance, nonetheless, the Lakers elected to go together with JJ Redick, a non-experienced candidate and ex-podcast accomplice of Los Angeles star LeBron James. However Cassell’s soon-to-be 15 years of sideline expertise will maintain the previous All-Star guard ready for at any time when the subsequent door opens.
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Till then, Cassell is concentrated on Boston. The Celtics haven’t repeated as champions in over 5 many years and the staff, poised for one more favorable probability to flood the streets of Boston with confetti, followers and tears of pleasure, isn’t permitting Banner 18 to cloud its judgment on the journey of chasing Banner 19.
“We making an attempt to chase greatness,” Cassell added, per the “Come And Discuss 2 Me” podcast. “We perceive that we gonna get all people’s greatest shot and we’re gonna do some looking too. We wish to hunt, too. Our guys are getting ready. I don’t actually speak in regards to the repeat factor nevertheless it’s gonna be enjoyable for us this yr. It’s gonna be laborious however we bought the precise character guys for our staff to — we’re gonna go for it. We’re gonna go for it. We’re gonna go for it.”
