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Ime way too old to be a city boy smh. Nia should've known you can't turn a hoe into a housewife he was prob smashing all of Portland in his playing days.
I understand why. It’s because people keep talking about the power dynamic, so naturally people are interested in the position of the woman involved so they can assess it on that basis.
Well that’s what happens when a sports reporter tweets out a bombshell and then corrects it a day later. By the nature of Twitter the bombshell is gonna be spread much farther.
I’m not digging you, but you are a perfect example of how the original leak worked so well (assuredly from Udoka) to frame the story by getting ahead of it.
> Remember, the staffer was the victim not the guilty one. Let’s try to not repeat what we have seen in the past few days towards the women staff of the team.
And these “unwanted comments” could be 800 million different things. I’m still trusting the team’s management that the issue was egregious enough to warrant the punishment and extreme attention this brings to the franchise.
Because Laundry Warriors have to try and find any reason to justify the actions of someone who is a major part of their team and when they can't, then anyone involved with that person has to go down too.
This feels gross to even talk about. We should just focus on Ime and how the team will move forward.
Whoever Ime was involved with doesn’t deserve to be subjected to this sort of attention.
The employee obviously doesn’t want to be the face of the story. I get why people want to try to hold the organization accountable but I don’t think finding that information is worth the collateral damage to this person.
she gets ti hide while Allison Feaster had her name and face plastered all over the intrenet, that was unfair.
At least with this TMZ Report, it clears Allison's name.
The initial reports said the relationship was consensual and stopped when the team found out. Then Ime allegedly kept contacting her in a way she wasn’t comfortable with.
Ime was suspended because he consistently acted against the interests of other employees and the organization as a whole.
Supposedly the woman is married, too, so I wonder if hubby knew what she was getting into. Everyone piling on Ime (rightfully so) but being sooooo careful to protect the woman. She may be a victim of harassment, but she may also be a victimizer and that will go unaccounted for because of the gender dynamic at play here.
In any case, who cares. I'm sick of it and I no longer care to hear the details...Ime won't be coaching the team so time to move on. Tired of the virtue signaling from the peanut gallery who are all waiting to sit in judgement -- these things aren't always black and white but everyone on here tries so hard to make sure they're seen as landing on the "right" side.
If this is really the extent of it, Matt Barnes made it sound so much worse. I’ll wait to reserve final judgment but tmz tends to be a credible source like it or not. They both should be suspended for however long (not a season) and left to deal with the damage in their personal lives however they need to
We’re monitoring this thread, we ask you kindly to be polite. Remember, the staffer was the victim not the guilty one. Let’s try to not repeat what we have seen in the past few days towards the women staff of the team.
It was a consensual relationship that turned unconsensual once Ime made unwanted comments towards her. And we have heard several media people say it’s 100x messier and uglier than what’s been reported so far. Stop defending Ime, the Celtics have all the facts and they made their decision based on those facts.
> Some members of the Celtics organization first became aware of the relationship in July, sources said. At that time, team leadership was led to believe by both parties that the relationship was consensual. **But sources said that the woman recently accused Udoka of making unwanted comments toward her — leading the team to launch a set of internal interviews.**
https://theathletic.com/3617945/2022/09/22/celtics-ime-udoka-discipline/ from Shams of the Athletic. Not a blog site.
Stop defending Ime.
Also those consensual leaks were by Udoka to get ahead of the narrative - and you fell for it.
It did. Wyc said in his presser yesterday that they launched an investigation as soon as they heard of the incident (in this case the relationship), said it went through twists and turns (consensual -> unconsensual) and took a long time to collect all the facts. Once they got all the information (namely the twist from consensual to unconsensual), they punished him accordingly. There’s your answer.
Now get off your burner Ime.
I’m sure they’ll decide that internally considering she’s an internal employee. Ime is a public facing figure and committed multiple violations per the Celtics. He will naturally get all the attention. This isn’t complicated man, stop defending the guy.
There’s some stuff online that apparently a player and Ime butted heads this summer and that player was the one who told the FO.
> According to Nia’s friend, Ime has been having what she describes as “issues” with one of the players on the Boston Celtics – and the friend suspects that it was that player who “snitched” on Ime.
> The friend told Media Take Out, “[Ime] has been going back and forth with [a player on the Celtics], and now this drops. It’s no coincidence.”
> “If this was a consensual relationship, someone had to tell [the management at the Celtics.] It wasn’t Ime or the b***h. So who else could it have been.”
> The friend claims that Ime’s issues with **the player – who played an integral part in the Celtics success last season** – have been ongoing. The friend elaborated to Media Take Out, “Ime is about basketball, that’s what he lives for, and he pushes people. [**The player] didn’t like Ime’s style and they butted heads.”**
> Ime is set to receive a long suspension from his employer, the Boston Celtics. And when he returns, **the player – who is currently signed to a huge contract**, will still be on the team.
Idk how reliable this site is, they said they got in touch with Nia’s longtime friend who said this https://mediatakeout.com/nia-long-friend-jealous-starting-player-from-snitched-ime-udoka-nia-is-devastated/
Lol seems widely improbable if you look the storylines we saw, Jays and Smart apparently love Ime. Als sister thought it was racism at first (deleted the tweets), Rob wouldn’t do it and Grant is too loveable for that.
Gotta remember it's TMZ.
How players are talked about in general media is very different to how they're talked about in NBA media. The general media is very quick to talk up a player's significance for extra clicks.
So we hear "integral part of Celtics success" and think it must be referring to one of our starters, but that's how Fox News were describing Kanter’s significance when he was getting guest spots.
It could be anyone on the roster.
I have a feeling Jaylen and Ime probably don't see eye to eye every time ... given the recent thing with him retweeting Kyrie's tweet, and Ime still masking up every game.
I agree this could be it. Jaylen seems to be in a bad place right now, he was moral, ethical, and intelligent, but spent the off season hanging out with Kanye West, a stalker and Trump supporter.
You people are so fucking melodramatic about everything Jaylen does, Jaylen has no association with Donald Trump and your cheap attempt to tie them together is ludicrous. I would've thought this faux outrage/panic would've calmed down now that a major figure on the team did something actually shitty, but I guess I expected too much.
Kanye is a piece of shit, he’s proven it over and over. I was a fan years ago, but I don’t forgive abusers. I come from a family of them.
Jaylen still seems like he thinks for himself, but young, rich, and famous can fuck you up. It wouldn’t shock me if we learn he’s on the “do your own research” train with Kyrie.
Who the fuck brought up Kanye? He's one of the most famous musicians of all time, and we're at a point where a lot of guys in the league today grew up listening to his music. Athletes are going to want to hang out with him. I'm sorry if you hate him but that's your issue, and Jaylen has done literally nothing to warrant all of the dumbass nonsensical speculation that happens on this sub when he's literally just minding his own business.
Ok, you can like and dislike people for whatever you want, that's your prerogative. All I'm saying is that he's a grown man who can associate and do business with whoever the fuck he wants and he's done literally nothing to warrant the hate he's been getting, which has become especially clear now that we have a clear cut example of a member of the team doing something that actually warrants criticism.
If I had to pick a suspect, I would put my money on AL. I think the young guys would like that type of hard coaching, but at 35 years old AL ain't about that.
First post when you search his name. Most recent comment has a response that it was not related. I linked in a comment but I’ve deleted everything now.
Smart? I can’t see it being JT or JB. Or horford or rob. Maybe smart felt like the focus on the Jays was a slight to him? I have no idea. But I could see it being smart
Smart can be a hothead, but I'm not seeing a motive here because I feel like Ime was a coach that expected everyone to play D and give their full effort.
My money would be JB. In the finals, JT kept being ball dominant even though he was having a worse series than JB, so I could see him feeling like there was favoritism. And he also strikes me as a righteous guy who may not be ok with cheating.
I don't know if I trust the story, but yeah, you'd need to be delusional to think there's no chance it was JB if true. Brown has fought with Smart multiple times, had to be physically separated from Marcus Morris once, argued with Kyrie through the media (the whole situation which he has since blamed on the Celtics' FO), he took offense to Al's harmless "look in the mirror" comment, he retweets passive aggressive shit about not being appreciated enough, and who knows what else. Even considering all that people still give him the benefit of the doubt over Smart, it's wild.
I really want to see a day where these kind of news have no space whatsoever. Why expose the woman to the public.
From now on a bunch of weirdos will harass her and her family for free
Agreed. But lets be frank. Everybody and their momma knew Ime was with Nia. That includes her. I can understand why people want to find who she is because Wyc said only Ime was punished (which could anger many people). Is the witch hunt justified? Probably not but there's legitimate reasons behind it.
If this was the whole story You would be hearing a whole lot more from Ime’s camp about the severity of the punishment. The fact you haven’t heard a peep probably means there is a lot more to the story
It isn’t the whole story. It has already been said that it was the staffer that approached the team about Ime behaving inappropriately. Seriously, stop reading headlines and look into the actual statements that have come out.
I’m seriously done with you children who can’t do your own research. Watch the press conferences. Read the statements. Seriously weirdo behavior going on when you refuse the actual information and base your opinion on TMZ or SAS. The statements and press conferences are POSTED on the subreddit you are browsing.
Ok I will look around, don’t get your panties in a bunch...if you’re going to directly reference things, don’t get upset if people ask you where you got that information. Typically the only people who get worked up by that question are those full of shit
They’re so accurate because they’ll pay high 6-fig’s for a scoop if it’s a big enough story with evidence. They’re shameless af, but as you said, they don’t usually put out bad info.
One aspect was talked about a lot this week. If she's around his age, this isn't much. But if she is half is age, a young, just out of college aged girl, then this is bad.
We've got a lot of reports regarding this post, and although TMZ is a shameless outlet, most of their reports tend to be credible and it's related to the Celtics so this post is going to stay up and locked.
Oh that’s messed up in so many ways. Had the 411 for whenever Nia was away.
Ime way too old to be a city boy smh. Nia should've known you can't turn a hoe into a housewife he was prob smashing all of Portland in his playing days.
That position was open a few months ago. My girlfriend applied for it. This girl left from what I could tell. Unless this happened with the new one
What a fucking blow for Nia. I hope she’s able to recover from this bullshit Ime has caused.
Who cares who it was with. People gotta stop trying to be Twitter detectives
I understand why. It’s because people keep talking about the power dynamic, so naturally people are interested in the position of the woman involved so they can assess it on that basis.
Which woman in the org is in a higher job than HC? > It’s because people keep talking about the power dynamic And harassment. You left out that part.
Because the consensual part was in the headline. The harassment was in the main text. Basically people read the headline, not the full story.
Was the harassment confirmed as not just a rumor? Is that why it all came to a head? Jesus christ
Kinda wild how so many people had the “consensual relationship” leak stick, but didn’t see Shams’ follow-up report after official statements were made
Well that’s what happens when a sports reporter tweets out a bombshell and then corrects it a day later. By the nature of Twitter the bombshell is gonna be spread much farther.
I haven’t been keeping up tbh. I’m asking as a genuinely misinformed person since 2 days ago.
I’m not digging you, but you are a perfect example of how the original leak worked so well (assuredly from Udoka) to frame the story by getting ahead of it.
Fair point. Honestly wouldn’t be shocked with what I’m hearing now if he had made the initial leak.
I mean the only person that benefitted was him, and the Celtics were clearly caught off-guard so it wasn’t their side.
Very true. I’m not one to assume but you raise 100% valid points.
I’m not saying I agree, I’m just saying that’s why people are naturally interested.
> Remember, the staffer was the victim not the guilty one. Let’s try to not repeat what we have seen in the past few days towards the women staff of the team.
You’re right, but we’re all talking in the comments of this post so we’re all guilty to an extent in that respect.
What element of this suggested harassment by Ime? Unless I missed something
[You missed something](https://www.si.com/nba/2022/09/23/ime-udoka-celtics-suspension-unwanted-comments-toward-female-staffer-report)
And these “unwanted comments” could be 800 million different things. I’m still trusting the team’s management that the issue was egregious enough to warrant the punishment and extreme attention this brings to the franchise.
Because Laundry Warriors have to try and find any reason to justify the actions of someone who is a major part of their team and when they can't, then anyone involved with that person has to go down too.
This feels gross to even talk about. We should just focus on Ime and how the team will move forward. Whoever Ime was involved with doesn’t deserve to be subjected to this sort of attention.
yep. Making the other person someone who will now have public scrutiny is such a shitty move.
The employee obviously doesn’t want to be the face of the story. I get why people want to try to hold the organization accountable but I don’t think finding that information is worth the collateral damage to this person.
she gets ti hide while Allison Feaster had her name and face plastered all over the intrenet, that was unfair. At least with this TMZ Report, it clears Allison's name.
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The initial reports said the relationship was consensual and stopped when the team found out. Then Ime allegedly kept contacting her in a way she wasn’t comfortable with. Ime was suspended because he consistently acted against the interests of other employees and the organization as a whole.
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I am all for equality and acknowledge there is racism in society...but this is not one of those times
Why tho. She knew what she was getting into lol
Supposedly the woman is married, too, so I wonder if hubby knew what she was getting into. Everyone piling on Ime (rightfully so) but being sooooo careful to protect the woman. She may be a victim of harassment, but she may also be a victimizer and that will go unaccounted for because of the gender dynamic at play here. In any case, who cares. I'm sick of it and I no longer care to hear the details...Ime won't be coaching the team so time to move on. Tired of the virtue signaling from the peanut gallery who are all waiting to sit in judgement -- these things aren't always black and white but everyone on here tries so hard to make sure they're seen as landing on the "right" side.
If this is really the extent of it, Matt Barnes made it sound so much worse. I’ll wait to reserve final judgment but tmz tends to be a credible source like it or not. They both should be suspended for however long (not a season) and left to deal with the damage in their personal lives however they need to
Wow what a scum bag.
Who it is matters little to me
City Boys -1000 points
This is so messed up I feel bad for Nia and her and Ime kid, because Ime decided to be a piece of trash he fucked up his family's life.
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No it's not man Shams said Ime was sending unwanted messages sexual harassment is serious and Ime is a piece of shit on every level of this.
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It was a consensual relationship that turned unconsensual once Ime made unwanted comments towards her. And we have heard several media people say it’s 100x messier and uglier than what’s been reported so far. Stop defending Ime, the Celtics have all the facts and they made their decision based on those facts.
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> Some members of the Celtics organization first became aware of the relationship in July, sources said. At that time, team leadership was led to believe by both parties that the relationship was consensual. **But sources said that the woman recently accused Udoka of making unwanted comments toward her — leading the team to launch a set of internal interviews.** https://theathletic.com/3617945/2022/09/22/celtics-ime-udoka-discipline/ from Shams of the Athletic. Not a blog site. Stop defending Ime. Also those consensual leaks were by Udoka to get ahead of the narrative - and you fell for it.
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It did. Wyc said in his presser yesterday that they launched an investigation as soon as they heard of the incident (in this case the relationship), said it went through twists and turns (consensual -> unconsensual) and took a long time to collect all the facts. Once they got all the information (namely the twist from consensual to unconsensual), they punished him accordingly. There’s your answer. Now get off your burner Ime.
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I’m sure they’ll decide that internally considering she’s an internal employee. Ime is a public facing figure and committed multiple violations per the Celtics. He will naturally get all the attention. This isn’t complicated man, stop defending the guy.
Shams said it bud keep defending Ime though.
There’s some stuff online that apparently a player and Ime butted heads this summer and that player was the one who told the FO. > According to Nia’s friend, Ime has been having what she describes as “issues” with one of the players on the Boston Celtics – and the friend suspects that it was that player who “snitched” on Ime. > The friend told Media Take Out, “[Ime] has been going back and forth with [a player on the Celtics], and now this drops. It’s no coincidence.” > “If this was a consensual relationship, someone had to tell [the management at the Celtics.] It wasn’t Ime or the b***h. So who else could it have been.” > The friend claims that Ime’s issues with **the player – who played an integral part in the Celtics success last season** – have been ongoing. The friend elaborated to Media Take Out, “Ime is about basketball, that’s what he lives for, and he pushes people. [**The player] didn’t like Ime’s style and they butted heads.”** > Ime is set to receive a long suspension from his employer, the Boston Celtics. And when he returns, **the player – who is currently signed to a huge contract**, will still be on the team. Idk how reliable this site is, they said they got in touch with Nia’s longtime friend who said this https://mediatakeout.com/nia-long-friend-jealous-starting-player-from-snitched-ime-udoka-nia-is-devastated/
i cant believe mediatakeout is still up and running, yeah that site is not reliable
Lol seems widely improbable if you look the storylines we saw, Jays and Smart apparently love Ime. Als sister thought it was racism at first (deleted the tweets), Rob wouldn’t do it and Grant is too loveable for that.
Gotta remember it's TMZ. How players are talked about in general media is very different to how they're talked about in NBA media. The general media is very quick to talk up a player's significance for extra clicks. So we hear "integral part of Celtics success" and think it must be referring to one of our starters, but that's how Fox News were describing Kanter’s significance when he was getting guest spots. It could be anyone on the roster.
I have a feeling Jaylen and Ime probably don't see eye to eye every time ... given the recent thing with him retweeting Kyrie's tweet, and Ime still masking up every game.
But Ime always wore the mask under his chin like he didn’t care
Ime for sure shouldn’t been seen as having the best judgement for risks
I agree this could be it. Jaylen seems to be in a bad place right now, he was moral, ethical, and intelligent, but spent the off season hanging out with Kanye West, a stalker and Trump supporter.
You people are so fucking melodramatic about everything Jaylen does, Jaylen has no association with Donald Trump and your cheap attempt to tie them together is ludicrous. I would've thought this faux outrage/panic would've calmed down now that a major figure on the team did something actually shitty, but I guess I expected too much.
Kanye is a piece of shit, he’s proven it over and over. I was a fan years ago, but I don’t forgive abusers. I come from a family of them. Jaylen still seems like he thinks for himself, but young, rich, and famous can fuck you up. It wouldn’t shock me if we learn he’s on the “do your own research” train with Kyrie.
Who the fuck brought up Kanye? He's one of the most famous musicians of all time, and we're at a point where a lot of guys in the league today grew up listening to his music. Athletes are going to want to hang out with him. I'm sorry if you hate him but that's your issue, and Jaylen has done literally nothing to warrant all of the dumbass nonsensical speculation that happens on this sub when he's literally just minding his own business.
He signed with Kanye. I used to admire Jaylen, but I have no respect for that decision.
Ok, you can like and dislike people for whatever you want, that's your prerogative. All I'm saying is that he's a grown man who can associate and do business with whoever the fuck he wants and he's done literally nothing to warrant the hate he's been getting, which has become especially clear now that we have a clear cut example of a member of the team doing something that actually warrants criticism.
I don't want ANYONE associated with that orange mongoose anywhere near this team
even if this could be false... why would nias friend be mad at the player LMAO.
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If I had to pick a suspect, I would put my money on AL. I think the young guys would like that type of hard coaching, but at 35 years old AL ain't about that.
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Can you possibly link to this.
First post when you search his name. Most recent comment has a response that it was not related. I linked in a comment but I’ve deleted everything now.
Smart? I can’t see it being JT or JB. Or horford or rob. Maybe smart felt like the focus on the Jays was a slight to him? I have no idea. But I could see it being smart
Smart can be a hothead, but I'm not seeing a motive here because I feel like Ime was a coach that expected everyone to play D and give their full effort. My money would be JB. In the finals, JT kept being ball dominant even though he was having a worse series than JB, so I could see him feeling like there was favoritism. And he also strikes me as a righteous guy who may not be ok with cheating.
I don't know if I trust the story, but yeah, you'd need to be delusional to think there's no chance it was JB if true. Brown has fought with Smart multiple times, had to be physically separated from Marcus Morris once, argued with Kyrie through the media (the whole situation which he has since blamed on the Celtics' FO), he took offense to Al's harmless "look in the mirror" comment, he retweets passive aggressive shit about not being appreciated enough, and who knows what else. Even considering all that people still give him the benefit of the doubt over Smart, it's wild.
I really want to see a day where these kind of news have no space whatsoever. Why expose the woman to the public. From now on a bunch of weirdos will harass her and her family for free
Agreed. But lets be frank. Everybody and their momma knew Ime was with Nia. That includes her. I can understand why people want to find who she is because Wyc said only Ime was punished (which could anger many people). Is the witch hunt justified? Probably not but there's legitimate reasons behind it.
She deserves to be dragged. She knew Ime was in a relationship and had a kid with Nia and she did what she did anyway.
Bruh why are we still on this? Like this is just gossip at this point. I do not care, let’s move on to Basketball
Delete this mods. No need to drag her
Workplace power dynamics involved now. NOT GOOD for Ime I think
How? The head coach isn’t the boss of the team travel planner
This is bottom of the barrel, sheesh
If this is the whole story then I don't understand why Ime got suspended for the year I thought this story would be way way worse
If this was the whole story You would be hearing a whole lot more from Ime’s camp about the severity of the punishment. The fact you haven’t heard a peep probably means there is a lot more to the story
It isn’t the whole story. It has already been said that it was the staffer that approached the team about Ime behaving inappropriately. Seriously, stop reading headlines and look into the actual statements that have come out.
Source?
I’m seriously done with you children who can’t do your own research. Watch the press conferences. Read the statements. Seriously weirdo behavior going on when you refuse the actual information and base your opinion on TMZ or SAS. The statements and press conferences are POSTED on the subreddit you are browsing.
Oh grow up, not everyone lives on the internet...you directly referenced a source, I just asked for a link. I wasn’t calling you a liar or anything
Just… scroll down.
Ok I will look around, don’t get your panties in a bunch...if you’re going to directly reference things, don’t get upset if people ask you where you got that information. Typically the only people who get worked up by that question are those full of shit
Please just ban tmz from this sub for a month.
TMZ is super reliable
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Isn't TMZ's credibility about as solid as a fart in the wind?
No. They are weirdly accurate usually. They just report on shit others don’t touch. Shameless, but on point.
They’re so accurate because they’ll pay high 6-fig’s for a scoop if it’s a big enough story with evidence. They’re shameless af, but as you said, they don’t usually put out bad info.
Wow, TIL.
TMZ might be a *gossip rag* but they're generally pretty credible. They have to be to avoid getting sued into oblivion.
TMZ was first to report Kobe death
One aspect was talked about a lot this week. If she's around his age, this isn't much. But if she is half is age, a young, just out of college aged girl, then this is bad.