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Ime Udoka is benched.
The nonrecreational basketball coach, who has been engaged to actress Nia Long since 2015, was suspended from his relation arsenic Head Coach of the Boston Celtics, the squad announced connected Sept. 22.
Udoka was suspended for the 2022-2023 season, effectual immediately, owed to "violations of squad policies," the Celtics' connection read. It added, "A determination astir his aboriginal with the Celtics beyond this play volition beryllium made astatine a aboriginal date."
Following the news, Udoka gave a statement to ESPN newsman Malika Andrews to code the concern and instrumentality accountability.
"I privation to apologize to our players, fans, the full Celtics organization, and my household for letting them down," helium said. "I americium atrocious for putting the squad successful this hard situation, and I judge the team's decision."
His connection concluded, "Out of respect for everyone involved, I volition person nary further comment."
Before joining the Celtics past year, helium coached for the Brooklyn Nets, Philadelphia 76ers and San Antonio Spurs.
Udoka and Long, who reportedly met successful 2010, stock lad Kez Sunday Udoka, 10. She's besides ma to an big son Massai Dorsey II from a erstwhile relationship.
The actress—who appeared in Empire, The Best Man and Dear White People—hasn't publically spoken astir the suspension.
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Back successful May, Long celebrated Udoka's accomplishment when he led the Celtics to the NBA Finals successful his archetypal twelvemonth arsenic caput coach. "Speechless," she wrote of her fiancé. "patience and purpose."
Most recently, she posted connected her Instagram provender a photograph of their lad Kez starting 5th grade. She captioned the smiling photo, "There helium is…my yummy babe boy!"
Years ago, Long told reporters the astonishing communicative of however she learned she was expecting her archetypal kid with Udoka.
"I was expected to spell to Ghana to bash a movie and that's erstwhile I recovered retired I was pregnant," she said astatine the BET Awards successful 2011, wherever she showed disconnected her babe bump connected the reddish carpet. "I had a doctor's assignment to get the yellowish fever changeable and they were like, 'Miss Long, we can't springiness you a shot.'"
She said that, aft learning the gestation news, "I astir fainted. It was the champion infinitesimal and the sweetest astonishment ever."
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