Nba, Celtics: suspension for coach Udoka

There is just under a month to go to the start of the NBA season but the Boston Celtics have already had enough trouble to be enough for the whole championship. After the injuries of Gallinari and Robert Williams, here is the last tile, but this time self-inflicted. In fact, a long suspension is coming – which could also be for the whole season according to what the deep throat of the league, Adrian Wojnarowski of Espn wrote – for head coach Ime Udoka, guilty of having violated the internal rules of the franchise. According to reports from Yahoo! Sports, the coach allegedly had a consensual relationship with a green-and-white employee. The manager’s job would not be at risk and the disciplinary consequences are closely tied to the rules of the Celtics, not the league. There will therefore be no provision by the NBA against him. It is likely that the team will already communicate the duration of the stop today.

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In place of Udoka, who in his first year on the bench in Boston led it to the Finals, lost 4-2 to the Warriors, the team should be entrusted to one of his assistants, the 34-year-old Joe Mazzulla, already at the helm of the team. in the last Summer League. The Celtics will open the season on October 18 at home to Philadelphia. A few weeks ago the first blow came with the magnetic resonance imaging on the left knee of Danilo Gallinari, signed in the summer for a biennial, which had highlighted the rupture of the crusader, closing before even starting the season of the blue, who had injured himself with the national team in the world qualifying match in Brescia against Georgia. In recent days, however, the news that Robert Williams will have to undergo arthroscopic surgery on his left knee (already operated last spring for the rupture of the meniscus) which will keep him away from the fields for 6-8 weeks. Despite the chain of troubles, bookmakers still rank Boston as the favorite for the 2023 title win.