The Boston Celtics players celebrated their historic victory in the most traditional way possible, while head coach Joe Mazzulla wasted no time popping champagne bottles. 

After his team upset the Dallas Mavericks 106-88 on Monday night, the 35-year-old, who became the youngest coach to win an NBA title since 1970, stayed at TD Garden for several hours. 

The Boston Herald notes that Mazzulla and his spouse, Camai Mazzulla, were spotted strolling around the deserted arena while holding hands. 

Reporter Andrew Callahan posted on X, “Joe Mazzulla and his wife are holding hands, walking around the parquet.” It is 3:20 a.m.

They’ve already completed a couple laps. Mazzulla gestures to several locations within the arena. Taking everything in,” he continued.

Camai, meanwhile, reposted a charming photo of her husband joyously raising the Larry O’Brien championship trophy into the air on her Instagram Story.

She wrote, paraphrasing the romantic comedy The Notebook from 2004: “If you’re a bird, I’m a bird.”

The second-year coach and his spouse first worked together at Glenville State College in 2011; she was the head volleyball coach and he was the assistant basketball coach. 

Joe’s team continued to blast gold bottles of champagne into the wee hours of the morning despite the couple’s low-key celebration.

The victorious Celtics moved the celebration from the court to the locker room after winning the Larry O’Brien trophy.

There, the champagne and beers began flowing. 

Earlier in the Celtics’ series against the Mavericks, Joe stunneԀ the press room into silence when he awkwardly dodged a reporter’s question during a press conference.

He was asked about the reverence of the NBA finals featuring two Black head coaches for the first time in nearly half a century.

Both he and the Mavericks head coach, Jason Kidd, are Black. 

‘For the first time since 1975, this is the NBA Finals where you have two black head coaches,’ Vince Goodwill of Yahoo Sports began. Do you believe that this is a momentous occasion considering the predicament that black head coaches in the NBA occasionally face? Are you proud of this? The journalist asked Joe, “How do you see this, or do you not see it at all?”

In an oddly direct response, he sidestepped the topic by praising his Christian beliefs.

He answered, “I wonder how many of those have been Christian coaches,” and then there was a pause of nearly ten seconds in which nobody spoke.

He might have been alluding to the fact that Kidd also identifies as Catholic in his response.