News Summary

• Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla put his own diabolical spin on the preseason media game.
• He turned the scrimmage into a showdown between the Celtics media corps and the Celtics coaching staff.
• If you put the Celtics’ staff up against any of its counterparts around the league, I’d like its chances in a pickup game.On talent, experience and athleticism alone, that group could have sleepwalked its way to victory.
• But they didn’t take it easy on the folks who are paid to write and talk about basketball, not play it.