The Boston Celtics lost their second game of the season on Wednesday night, losing 118-112 to the Golden State Warriors at TD Garden. Notably absent from the park was reigning Finals MVP Jaylen Brown, who missed his third straight game while dealing with a hip injury.

The franchise has not provided much information about Brown’s injury other than the fact that it is a hip injury, and reporters attended head coach Joe Mazzulla’s press conference hoping to get an update on the status of the injury. star. Those hopes were dashed by a truly funny exchange between the unusual coach and those asking the questions.

Here is the interaction transcribed for your reading pleasure:

Reporter A: “Were you able to talk to him about the injury?”

Mazzulla: “I talk to him every day.”

Reporter A: “What were those conversations like?”

Mazzulla: “We both kind of mumble when we talk, we just shake hands and move on.”

Reporter A: “Did he mumble about his hip at all?”

Mazzulla: “I couldn’t understand him.”

Then another reporter was given the opportunity to continue.

Reporter B: “Do you have any idea if that will stick around for a while?”

Mazzulla: “The mumbling or the injury?”

Reporter B: “Both.”

“Mazzella: “Oh. Not me. He works hard every day to get back. I think it’s an everyday thing. We’ll see how he does when he wakes up tomorrow and go from there, but he’s out there every day.”

Hilarious stuff, made even more so by the fact that Mazzulla managed to avoid an answer of any kind. That’s usually how teams prefer to handle public questions about a player’s health. But Mazzulla, as is his wont, found a much nicer way to settle matters.

Brown will have the opportunity to take the floor again against the Brooklyn Nets on Friday at 7:30 PM ET.