EMBRACE THE NOISE: Why Joe Mazzulla Doesn't Want Celtics To Avoid Negativity

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Boston Celtics thrive amid mounting playoff pressure—Coach Joe Mazzulla insists “there’s no such thing as noise.” Can Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown keep their focus as national attention grows? John Karalis of Celtics on SI and Tom Westerholm of Boston.com dissect the Celtics’ mindset, exploring Mazzulla’s unique philosophy on embracing criticism and distraction, plus the mental toughness demanded from today’s NBA stars. Key topics include the surging Celtics-Knicks race for the No. 2 seed, playoff implications for Derrick White, and insights into locker room chemistry. The hosts reveal the wholesome—and secretly competitive—board game battles on team flights, spotlighting Payton Pritchard and teammates. Standings, playoff scenarios, and iconic anecdotes from past Celtics squads round out the conversation. Will the Celtics leverage their brotherhood to fuel a championship run, or will external “noise” disrupt their momentum?

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0:00.0	How did the Celtics block out the noise?
0:02.7	Well, Joe Missoula says there's no such thing as noise.
0:09.8	Hey, welcome back to the show.
0:11.4	I'm John Corrales.
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0:22.2	Later on, we're going to talk about the standings.
0:24.1	And by the time you listen to this, the Celtics and Nix may be tied.
0:28.1	We'll take a closer look at that.
0:29.9	In the second segment, we'll get into the board game bros and how this little
0:34.2	wholesome group of fellas is bonding over a board game on the plane.
0:38.9	But we're going to start with the Celtics trying to block out the noise with the most wholesome guy that I can think of.
0:45.7	It's Tom Westerholm.
0:47.9	What up?
0:48.7	Oh, that was a short one.
0:49.7	That was very short.
0:50.9	You know why that was a short one?
0:51.9	Because it's the second time I've said that joke because first time, it got massively disrupted by my little dog who ripped the entire
0:59.1	rig apart and forced me to start over. So it took you several minutes to get reoriented.
1:04.4	If I, if I couldn't see you, I would have been pretty concerned for your well-being.
1:07.8	It was, it was just, yeah, yeah everything fell apart and it took a very
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