CANTON, Massachusetts The Boston Celtics’ Jayson Tatum revealed that he was getting ready for training camp when he found out that head coach Ime Udoka might have been facing a protracted suspension. However, he said that Tatum had no access to any insider knowledge. How then did he find out the news?
“Twitter,” he remarked. “Just like everyone else.”
Tatum was one of the Celtics players who made his first public remarks on Monday following the team’s
announcement on Thursday that Udoka would be suspended for the 2022–2023 NBA season due to undefined
“violations of team policies.” During the team’s media day, the players came out one by one on a dais and admitted to
the bank of cameras and reporters that they knew very little about what had caused Udoka to be punished.
Marcus Smart: “We’ve been through hell.” Simply taken by surprise. We’re all just in the wind, just like everyone
else, because nobody really knows anything. The past few days have been perplexing.
“Nobody really has any of the information,” said Jaylen Brown.
Grant Williams: “The facts are unknown to me.”
As they attempt to regroup for another shot at a championship after falling to Golden State in the N.B.A. finals last
season, the players find Udoka’s absence and the covert nature of the investigation into his misbehavior concerning.
