Celtics' Joe Mazzulla may be interim head coach should Ime Udoka be suspended: reports

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The Boston Celtics could have an interim head coach for the 2022-2023 season should the team decide to suspend Ime Udoka for violating team rules.

Should the Celtics decide to go forth with a season-long suspension for Udoka, multiple reports indicated that Boston will make Joe Mazzulla the interim head coach.

Mazzulla, 34, has been on the Celtics’ bench since 2019. He was an assistant at Glenville State and Fairmont State between 2011 and 2016 and then was an assistant on the Celtics’ G League team, Maine Red Claws. He was the head coach at Fairmont State from 2017-2019 before returning to Boston.

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Joe Mazzulla of the West Virginia Mountaineers drives against the Clemson Tigers during the second round of the 2011 NCAA men's basketball tournament in Tampa, Florida, on March 17, 2011. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)

Mazzulla played under Bob Huggins at West Virginia and was on the team that upset Kentucky in the 2010 Elite Eight before losing to Duke in the Final Four.

He had interviewed for the Utah Jazz’s head coaching position that ultimately went to Will Hardy.

Word of Udoka potentially getting suspended for the season over a rules violation came to light late Wednesday.

Joe Mazzulla of the Boston Celtics attends the 2022 NBA Finals media availability at TD Garden in Boston on June 9, 2022. (Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images)

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Multiple reports later indicated that Udoka was alleged to have had a consensual, intimate relationship with a female staff member and it "was considered to be a violation of the organization’s