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The Celtics continued to add to Joe Mazzulla’s coaching staff on Sunday, reportedly hiring Charles Lee as their new lead assistant coach.
Lee spent the last five seasons as an assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks, and was their associate head coach this past season. The Bucks’ staff is in the process of turning over after head coach Mike Budenholzer was fired.
Lee was reportedly a finalist to be head coach for the Toronto Raptors and the Detroit Pistons this year and has experience as a professional basketball player, playing in Israel and Europe. Lee also has nine years of coaching experience in the NBA as an assistant coach, four years as part of the Atlanta Hawks coaching staff and then the five in Milwaukee.
Lee joins Sam Cassell to help the Celtics replace the losses of Damon Stoudamire leaving to coach at Georgia Tech, along with Ben Sullivan, Mike Moser and Aaron Miles joining Ime Udoka’s coaching staff in Houston.
The hires of Cassell and now Lee provide Mazzulla with some crucial experience on the bench that was lacking this past season. With Mazzulla himself inexperienced as a head coach, that was an area Brad Stevens and company needed to address this offseason, and now have.