The Boston Celtics had a coaching situation like none other last season and it continues into the offseason as the Celtics lost three assistant coaches to join Ime Udoka’s new staff in Houston.

It’s worth mentioning that Will Hardy took the Utah Jazz head coaching job last season and Aaron Miles is leaving Boston to join the New Orleans Pelicans coaching staff.

The Celtics retooled head coach Joe Mazzulla with three-time champion and longtime coach in Sam Cassell and a championship assistant in Charles Lee.

Boston also added another assistant coach to Mazzulla’s new and improved staff by hiring a new and upcoming coach in Amile Jefferson, who’s also a close friend and former teammate of Jayson Tatum.

Jefferson played for Duke from 2012-17, being on the same Duke team with Tatum in 2016-17 that finished 28-9 and finished fifth in the ACC under coach K.

Jefferson served as Duke’s team captain for three seasons, including their 2014-15 NCAA championship team and has a career field goal percentage of 62%.

Jefferson went undrafted in 2017 and played in the GLeague for until 2020, where he played in Turkey for the Galatasaray S.K. for one year before transitioning to coaching for the first time in 2022 where he returned to his Alma Mater.

Jefferson was a senior and started ever games when Tatum was a freshman and eventually became a starter, having started 27 out of 29 games in his lone college season.

The two Blue Devils became close friends in that one season and will now share the court together again in Boston.

It’s worth mentioning that in December of 2020, Jefferson was a free agent when Tatum Tweeted for a team to sign him. Five days later the Celtics signed him to an Exhibit-10 contract.

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