Marcus Smart praises Ime Udoka and criticizes her departure from Boston

The possible incorporation of Ime Udoka to replace Steve Nash in front of the Nets, full of nonsense, had a response in Boston. There the technician got last year, in the first season in which he worked as head coach of the NBA, a ticket to the finals that the Kerr’s Warriors later won. The coach was removed from the management of the bench in the summer, leaving the separation to Joe Mazzulla, due to a case of abuse of power with another employee of the franchise with whom he had had a romantic relationship. Now, without further battles from the green entity, he is free to sign for the Nets, a team where Durant asked for a change of course a few months ago which is now effective with a Udoka who was already an assistant there two years ago. . A Sindio that some players want to participate in through their opinion.

Marcus Smart, one of the leaders of the Celtics in the locker room, defended his future former manager and made the following statements about how his disqualification in Boston was treated:

“Obviously, we would like him to be with us. We have no control over this, but it sucks. I guess it was felt that what happened was enough for him not to be the coach here, but I think not enough not to be a coach elsewhere.

“His name was slandered and slaughtered and it was rumored that he would probably never train again. And a couple of months later he will be the manager of one of our biggest rivals? It’s difficult. It does not make sense. But we can’t control it, we have to control what we can. “

“It really doesn’t matter what we say. We can express our opinion, but that’s it. It is a difficult position for everyone. It just smells bad everywhere you look at it “

“We thought he would be back, but the team and the organization saw and felt differently. This is the part of the business that we have to tackle. Now it’s possible for him to take a position right next to us and train the same guys we were trying to beat. “

Udoka was suspended for a year from Boston after the relationship with another employee became known, which was prohibited by the franchise’s code of conduct, and with aggravating circumstances that did not come to light. His situation would have to be reviewed at the end of the season, but the Nets appeared and the Celtics served as a pretext to get rid of a problem. The bad is that, according to these words, it is against the will of most of the players. Mazzulla will continue ad interim, even if the chances that he will do so until the end of the season grow.