{"id":1530577,"date":"2022-09-23T15:35:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T19:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1530577"},"modified":"2022-09-23T15:35:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T19:35:56","slug":"emotional-brad-stevens-speaks-on-the-ugly-ime-udoka-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/emotional-brad-stevens-speaks-on-the-ugly-ime-udoka-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Brad Stevens Speaks On the Ugly Ime Udoka Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Boston Celtics<\/a> have finally addressed the situation. After reports broke about head coach Ime Udoka staring at a lengthy suspension<\/a> for \u201cunspecified violation of organizational guidelines,\u201d\u00a0speculation grew. It grew to a point where it unfairly affected some Celtics staff members. Brad Stevens spoke on that Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Celtics president of basketball operations<\/a> became emotional when talking about how unfairly innocent staff members were called out. It's been an ugly couple of days that resulted in Udoka's suspension for the entire 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brad Stevens addressed the ‘rampant bulls***' on Twitter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens looks on before Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Boston Celtics at TD Garden on May 11, 2022, in Boston, Massachusetts. | Maddie Malhotra\/Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, Shams Charania of The Athletic tweeted.<\/a> that Udoka had an “improper intimate and consensual relationship” with a female member of the Celtics staff. Reports had Udoka facing a lengthy suspension from the team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Celtics remained quiet all day Thursday while Twitter users played detective and tried to figure out who the woman was. Speculation grew, and at least one woman was wrongly pointed out as the one involved with Udoka. Her photo was all over social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stevens got emotional when addressing the issue Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe only thing that I would like to say is we have a lot of talented women in our organization, and I thought yesterday was really hard on them,\u201d Stevens said, his voice cracking. \u201cNobody can control Twitter speculation<\/a> \u2014 rampant bulls***. I do think that we as an organization have a responsibility that we\u2019re there to support them now because a lot of people were dragged unfairly because of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how we can control Twitter. Obviously, there\u2019s only so much we can say. Our job is to be there. Yesterday was unfair to them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was messaging sent out. There were meetings to make sure everybody\u2019s available and supportive. I think we need to make sure that we\u2019re available for a while beyond that. That was really unfair in my opinion.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-owner Wyc Grousbeck says the Celtics had nothing to do with the leaked information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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