Maybe Joe Mazzulla just wanted a laugh.

Maybe he wanted to embarrass us as punishment for asking the same annoying postgame questions for the last three years.

Maybe he wanted to provide some post-practice entertainment for the large group of players — including Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown — who were watching from the lounge that overlooks the Auerbach Center’s two courts.

Whatever his reason, Mazzulla chose to put his own diabolical spin on the Celtics’ preseason media game Tuesday afternoon. Rather than dividing the participating media members into teams and having them play against each other — as the C’s and other Boston pro teams have done in the past — Mazzulla turned the scrimmage into a showdown between the Celtics media corps and the Celtics coaching staff.

“I don’t want to

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