Bad Business: Ime Udoka Suspended For 1 Year By Boston Celtics, New Details Suggest Relationship Wasn’t Consensual Citing “Unwanted Comments”

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The drama surrounding the Boston Celtics struck a fever pitch the other day night when the franchise lastly dropped the other shoe on the status of their head coach.

Ime Udoka has actually been suspended for one season for his improper relationship with a female on the group’s personnel. However, that’s not even the worst of it. When the story was at first broken by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, it was stated that the relationship in between Udoka and the unnamed female was “consensual” however in the words of the late, fantastic Biggie Smalls, “things done altered”.

According to The Athletic, the Celtics now state that the relationship that they initially thought was consensual might not have actually been. That isn’t to state that the entanglement didn’t start as a shared affair however possibly something altered. There is still an absence of clearness about the nature of the relationship and exactly what took place.

Some members of the Celtics company initially ended up being conscious of the relationship in July, sources stated. At that time, group management was led to think by both celebrations that the relationship was consensual. But sources stated that the female just recently implicated Udoka of making undesirable remarks towards her — leading the group to release a set of internal interviews.

After the suspension was main, Udoka launched what he states will be his very first and just declaration about his bad habits:

“I wish to say sorry to our gamers, fans, the whole Celtics company, and my household for letting them down,” Udoka stated in a declaration Thursday night. “I am sorry for putting the group in this tight spot, and I accept the group’s choice. Out of regard for everybody included, I will have no additional remark.”

Not just will Coach Udoka be suspended for the season, the Celtics declaration recommends that he will likely never ever coach the group ever once again. Peep the language they utilized…

“Violations”, plural, and “a choice about his future” sure seem like “Yeah, it’s a wrap for this man however we’re going to drag this out a bit” to us. What state you?