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Shrouding Ime Udoka's suspension in mystery is unsustainable for Celtics

BOSTON — If we learned anything from Friday's news conference with Boston Celtics managing partner Wyc Grousbeck and president of basketball operations Brad Stevens, it's that the situation involving head coach Ime Udoka is an untenable one that cannot be swept under the rug with a one-year suspension.

Amid reports of an alleged "improper intimate and consensual relationship with a female member of the team staff" and accusations of "unwanted comments toward her," Grousbeck understandably cited "privacy reasons for the people involved" as reason for neither confirming those reports nor elaborating on any substantive facts surrounding what they described as Udoka's "multiple violations" of team policies.