UPDATED: Two Former Hendricken Players Are NBA Head and Now All-Star Game Coaches
Sunday, February 19, 2023
EDITOR'S NOTE: In September, GoLocal reported that two NBA coaches both attended Bishop Hendricken -- now they are the head coaches for the 2023 NBA All-Star game being played Sunday night. This past week Joe Mazzulla was named the permanent head coach of the Boston Celtics.
Here is the September 23, 2022 article:
With the naming of Joe Mazzulla to serve as the new coach of the Boston Celtics for the 2022-2023 season, Bishop Hendricken High School can claim two NBA coaches.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTMazzulla will serve as the interim head coach, after the Boston Celtics announced Thursday night that the team has suspended Head Coach Ime Udoka for the 2022-23 season for violations of team policies.
A decision about Udoka's future with the Celtics beyond this season will be made at a later date. The suspension takes effect immediately.
The Celtics lost in the NBA finals and are a frontrunner for the NBA finals for the 2022-2023 season.
Mazzulla was a star at Bishop Hendricken and then West Virginia before entering coaching.
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The other Hendricken player is Denver Nuggets head coach Mike Malone, one of the top coaches in the Western Conference.
He attended Hendricken when his father Brendon Malone served as the head coach at URI in the mid-1980s — coaching stars Tommy Garrick, Silks Owens and Kenny Green, but after two seasons he joined the New York Knicks.
Mike Malone left Hendricken for Seton Hall Preparatory School and later attended prep school at Worcester Academy in the 1988–89 school year.
He then graduated from Loyola University Maryland in 1994 with a degree in history and played on the Loyola Greyhounds men's basketball team from 1989 to 1993.
After college, he coached high school and then landed a spot on the Providence College coaching staff from 1995 to 1998 under then-coach Pete Gillen.
When Gillen left for the University of Virginia. Malone went with him. And then, he left to join another former top Friar assistant Bobby Gonzalez at Manhattan. And then, Malone went up the college ranks to the NBA and finally landed the head coaching job with the Sacramento Kings.
He hired his father as an assistant.
But after just a little more than a season, the Kings fired Malone. The next year he was picked up by Denver and he has been the head coach since 2015.
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